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During the autumn of 2007 Swedish television channel Canal+ broadcast ice hockey games on a pay per view basis, inter alia, through live streaming on the Internet. The broadcasts were produced by the company C More Entertainment AB and the rights to the transmissions were owned by the same company. In October and November 2007, a person published links to the broadcasts of the games on his website, an unofficial fansite of his favourite Swedish ice hockey team. By following hyperlinks visitors were granted direct and free access to the games via their computers. C More Entertainment AB filed charges...

The European Court of Human Rights has delivered a judgment in an interesting case with a peculiar mix of issues related to freedom of expression, academic research, medical data, privacy protection and access to official documents. The defendant state is Sweden, a country very familiar with the principle and practice of access to official documents. The right of access to official documents has a history of more than two hundred years in Sweden and is considered one of the cornerstones of Swedish democracy. The case shows how access to official documents, including research documents containing...

On 15 June 2010 the Swedish parliament passed the bill for a new Radio and Television Act (Radio- och TV-lagen - SFS 2010:696) (see IRIS 2010-5: 1/36). The bill includes, amongst other things, the merger of the Granskningsnämnden för Radio och TV (Swedish Broadcasting Commission) and the Radio- och TV-verket (Swedish Radio and TV Authority) into a newly formed authority named the Myndigheten för Radio och TV (Authority for Radio and TV). The Swedish Broadcasting Commission and the Swedish Radio and TV Authority both act within the same media field. Due to the rapid development within this field...

On 24 June 2010, the European Commission issued a set of reasoned opinions to 12 member states (Austria, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, and Slovenia) requesting that they proceed with updating their national broadcasting legislation in order to bring it into compliance with the Audiovisual Media Service (AVMS) Directive. The Directive, which replaced the Television without Frontiers Directive of 1989 (as amended), was adopted in December 1997 with the intention of bringing the EU’s broadcasting rules up to speed with the digital age. The...

A fact-finding copyright Committee, appointed by the Swedish Government, recently introduced a report on the Swedish Copyright Act. The main tasks of the Committee have been to review the provisions on the transfer of copyright and to look over certain issues concerning extended collective licences and related matters. Two years ago, the Swedish government entrusted this expert Committee with conducting a review of the provisions of the Swedish Copyright Act. On 8 April 2010, the Committee published an interim report (SOU 2010:24) proposing that the Copyright Act provide for clearer and more modern...