Vad krävs för att erhålla upphovsrättsligt skydd? : - En analys av de dolda skyddskraven i lagen om upphovsrätt till litterära och konstnärliga verk.
Sammanfattning: This study analyzes the requirements for a work to obtain copyright protection according to the Act on Copyright in Literary and Artistic Works. There is nothing in the legislation that explicitly describes the qualifications that a work must possess in order to obtain copyright protection. The fact that specific requirements are set for a work becomes clear when looking at the legislative history. The legislative history clearly emphasizes that the work to be protected must possess a certain degree of independence and originality.It appears that the conditions for protection is linguistically difficult to define which resulted in uncertainty regarding what is required of a work according to the law. The purpose of this study is to investigate the conditions required by copyright in order for a work to obtain the rights that a protection implies and how the legal position has developed in practice. The study is investigated using a legal dogmatic method where the source of law is the basis for both the analysis and the disposition in order to be able to answer the questions being discussed. A number of precedential cases will be discussed along with articles written by experts within copyright law, which has been published in the journal Nordiskt Immateriellt Rättsskydd (NIR). Conclusions that can be drawn from this study is that it’s possible to determine the copyright protection requirements by two different assessments, the originality assessment and the work height assessment. Both assessments are considered equivalent to each other where one doesn’t have to exclude the other. It is also clear that there is a varying conceptual use by the courts to determine whether a work reaches the required level to obtain copyright protection. A conclusion that can be drawn from this is that the concepts themselves cannot be assigned any significant importance in individual decisions. The concepts primarily serve the function as the closest definition one can come to purely linguistically describe the actual requirements set by the Copyright Act. It is stated that one of the reasons for the lack of protection requirements in the legislative text is partly due to deficiencies in the Swedish language at the time of the law’s creation.
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