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In a judgment of 4 February 2014, the European Court found that a Finnish press photographer’s conviction for disobeying the police while covering a demonstration did not breach his freedom of expression. The applicant, Mr Pentikäinen, is a photographer and journalist for the weekly magazine Suomen Kuvalehti. He was sent by his employer to take photographs of a large demonstration in Helsinki. At a certain point, the police decided to interrupt the demonstration which had turned violent. It was announced over loudspeakers that the demonstration was over and that the crowd should leave the scene....

On 15 November 2013, amendments to the Finnish Copyright Act (404/1961) came into force. Among the amendments, section 25(g) of the Act, on renewed transmissions of television programmes stored in archives, was updated and extended. The section was also renamed to refer to the re-utilisation of programmes and publications stored in archives (“Arkistoidun ohjelman ja lehden uudelleen käyttäminen”). Other amendments to the Act concern the term of protection for fixations of performances and producers of phonograms as well as the use of orphan works (16(f)§ comes into force on 29 October 2014). According...

In 2008 Juha Arvo Mikael Ristamäki and Ari Jukka Korvola were convicted of defamation. Ristamäki is an editor working in the news service of a national Finnish broadcaster, while Korvola was his direct superior at the time. The reason for the conviction of the two journalists was the broadcast of a current affairs programme criticising the lack of co-operation between the authorities concerning a specific investigation into economic crime. It was revealed that the tax authorities had refused the request of the National Bureau of Investigation to conduct a tax inspection of the functioning of two...

On 29 October 2012, the Supreme Court of Finland did not grant the telecommunications and ICT service provider Elisa Corporation leave to appeal in the case concerning The Pirate Bay (TPB). In the aftermath of the Swedish TPB case, an interim injunction was sought against Elisa in May 2011. The Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Center (CIAPC) filed the application on behalf of the Finnish National Group of International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The aim was to prevent the continuance of copyright infringements. The application was based on Section 60c of the Finnish Copyright...

On 23 July 2012, the European Commission announced that it had written to Portugal, Slovenia, Finland (concerning the region of Åland) and the United Kingdom (concerning Gibraltar) to seek information on the implementation of the Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive. In 2011, the European Commission had already sent fact-finding letters to twenty-four member states (including Finland and the United Kingdom). The European Commission is looking for clarifications on the following issues: the country of origin principle and jurisdiction issues; audiovisual commercial communications; the protection...