Swedish copyright law is regulated by the act from 1960 ('Swedish Act on Copyright in Literary and Artistic Works'). Like in most other countries, it grants the author or relevant copyright holders exclusive rights to the work for 70 years following the author's death.
History of copyright in
Sweden dates back to the “Royal Act Regulating Book Printers” from 1752.
Court rulings of 2016 and 2017 effectively eliminated
freedom of panorama
Freedom of panorama (FOP) is a provision in the copyright laws of various jurisdictions that permits taking photographs and video footage and creating other images (such as paintings) of buildings and sometimes sculptures and other art works ...
in Sweden.
References
External links
Freedom of panorama in Sweden(
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons (or simply Commons) is a media repository of free-to-use images, sounds, videos and other media. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Files from Wikimedia Commons can be used across all of the Wikimedia projects in ...
information page)
{{Copyright law by country
Sweden
Swedish intellectual property law