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On 18 March 2010 the Swedish government presented a bill for inter alia a new Radio- och TV-lagen (Radio and Television Act - RTL). The new RTL is intended to implement the Audiovisual Media Services Directive 2007/65/EC, which amended Directive 89/552ECC. The new RTL is proposed to enter into force on 1 August 2010. The bill includes among others the following: Under the new RTL it will be easier for broadcasters to place sponsoring messages and advertisements during TV programmes. For instance, the general rule that advertisements should be placed between programmes has been abolished. However,...

On 17 February 2010, Regeringsrätten (the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court) delivered a judgment in a case regarding the placement of commercial breaks in the film ‘Clear and Present Danger’, starring Harrison Ford, broadcast by the Swedish nationwide television channel TV4. Granskningsnämnden för radio och TV (the Swedish Broadcasting Commission - GRN) initiated proceedings against TV4 claiming, inter alia, that it had violated section 7:7 of Radio- och TV-lagen (the Radio and Television Act - RTL), since TV4 had placed a commercial break in connection to a scene where the drama of the film...

The rapid growth of the market for mobile content services, such as weather and news reports, has brought with it an opportunity for mobile operators to sell personal data to content providers. In a joint project, the Swedish Data Inspection Board (DIB) and the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) have reviewed how personal data is handled in mobile content services. One of the project’s findings was that many stakeholders in the market have different opinions on what rules apply to their activities, leading to an uncertain situation as to who is responsible for the processing of the personal...

Swedish copyright regulation dates back to 1752 and the “Royal Act Regulating Book Printers”. The current Swedish Act on Copyright in Literary and Artistic Works (1960:729), as subsequently amended, entered into force in 1960. The Copyright Act provides legal protection for literary and artistic works, which are the result of original creativity in any form or shape (see e.g. Article 1 of the Copyright Act). Furthermore, the Copyright Act protects neighbouring rights, such as those over databases or those of the producers of recordings of sound and of images (Articles 45-49). Generally, copyright...

Since the beginning of 2009, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers (CM) has adopted five country-specific Recommendations concerning the application of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages: Serbia (first monitoring cycle); Armenia, Austria and Cyprus (second monitoring cycle) and Sweden (third monitoring cycle). The Charter contains a number of provisions of relevance for the (audiovisual) media, the most detailed of which are to be found in Article 11. Of the latest batch of Recommendations on the application of the Charter, the most specific references to the audiovisual...