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Overview

Taskforce reviewers

Eric Luth, email address

‘Other photographs’ related rights

Yes

Overview

Article 14 has been implemented as an exception to Article 49(a) of the Copyright Act.

Scope

Applies to a work of art, rather than only a work of visual art. 

Retroactivity

No

Statutory Law

Source language

English

Provision on copyright 

Revised provision on copyright 

Comments / analysis

Provision on related rights for “other photographs”

URL 49 a

Den som har framställt en fotografisk bild har uteslutande rätt att framställa exemplar av bilden och göra den tillgänglig för allmänheten. Rätten gäller oavsett om bilden används i ursprungligt eller ändrat skick och oavsett vilken teknik som utnyttjas. 

Article 49 Copyright Act

Whoever has produced a photographic image has the exclusive right to produce copies of the image and make it available to the public. The right applies regardless of whether the image is used in its original or altered state and regardless of what technology is used

Revised provision on related rights for “other photographs” 

URL 49 a

Den som har framställt en fotografisk bild har uteslutande rätt att framställa exemplar av bilden och göra den tillgänglig för allmänheten. Rätten gäller oavsett om bilden används i ursprungligt eller ändrat skick och oavsett vilken teknik som utnyttjas. Rätten gäller dock inte om det huvudsakliga motivet för bilden utgörs av ett konstverk för vilket upphovsrätt inte längre gäller.

Article 49 Copyright Act

Whoever has produced a photographic image has the exclusive right to produce copies of the image and make it available to the public. The right applies regardless of whether the image is used in its original or altered state and regardless of what technology is used. However, the right does not apply if the main subject of the image is a work of art for which copyright no longer applies.

Comments / analysis

  • Object of protection: Photographs which are not a photographic work (lack of originality).

  • Type of protection: Reproduction and making available to the public in original or altered form. Attribution and integrity.

  • Duration: 50 years after production.

Case Law

Source language

English

Originality in photography

Takeaways

Limitations for CHIs

Not in the Italian sense, I would not say. There are a few peculiarities. Like you're not allowed to share reproductions of the Nobel medal even though copyright has expired. There's also a "classics protection" where each work type is guarded by an institution to make sure that reproductions are not harming the "spirit" of the classics. Nazis were using an ancient poem the other day and this was taken to court by the custodian institution. For any purpose I think.

Reflections

Wikimedai Sverige asked the government about digitizing techniques that fall outside the scope of the related right for photographic images (such as 3D digitization). Their reply: The government also wants to emphasize that to the extent that a certain technology falls outside the category of photographic images, the Copyright Act does not offer any protection for the performance, if it does not constitute a copyright-protected work or is attributable to one of the other related rights harmonized within the EU. This applies regardless of what the motive for such reproduction is. In such cases, there are also no copyright obstacles to using the reproduction.

Sources

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