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The culture ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden (Nordic Council of Ministers) signed a five-year agreement with the Nordic Film & TV Fund on 11 May 2009 in Reykjavik. The aim of the agreement is to strengthen the Nordic region’s competitive position in the global film and television industry. In addition to production itself, the global marketing of Nordic films and talents is to be promoted. The agreement with the Nordic Film & TV Fund will run until the end of 2014 and an annual budget of approx. DKK 70 million will be made available. The agreement involves a total of 17...

Following a complaint from commercial Danish broadcasting operators, the EC Commission in 2003 decided to launch a State aid probe into the possible overcompensation of the Danish Public Service Broadcaster TV2 by the Danish State (see IRIS 2003-2: 3). In 2004, the Commission decided that part of the aid granted by Denmark to TV2 between 1995 and 2002 in the form of license fee resources and other measures, namely DKK 628.2 million (approx. EUR 84 million), constituted overcompensation of TV2’s net costs for public service activities (re: Decision 2006/217/EC of 19 May 2004 on measures implemented...

A pending Danish court case regarding the liability of Internet service providers (ISPs) for illegal content on the Internet has attracted substantial attention in the media, both on a Danish and an international level. The case concerns the Swedish website “The Pirate Bay”, a peer-to-peer service which enables users, provided they have downloaded a specific software application, to generate links to music, films etc. on other websites on the Internet. The Danish branch of the international record company industry IFPI filed for an injunction against the Danish ISP DMT2. IFPI argued that Pirate...

A Danish pop band “Dodo & the Dodos” won a case concerning a conflict over the right for its record label to distribute music over the Internet without a clear agreement on such distribution. Dodo brought a case against the record label Sony BMG before the Court of First instance because the label had informed music bands of its intention to offer digital downloads to online music stores without a special agreement on the matter with the artists. Before the Court, Dodo alleged that the existing contract did not admit distribution over the Internet; an agreement with every single band specifically...

In order to implement the Agreement on media policy reached by the governing political parties on 6 June 2006 (see IRIS 2006-8: 13), the Minister of Culture and the Danmarks Radio (DR) broadcaster signed, in January of this year, a Public Service Contract for the period of 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2010. Amendments to the lov om radio- og fjernsynsvirksomhed (Act on Radio and Television Activities) introduced by the Agreement have been adopted by the Amendment Act no. 1569 of 20 December 2006. The key provisions of the Public Service Contract hold that DR must offer a broad selection of public...