A teenage boy has become what is thought to be the youngest person in Sweden to be convicted of copyright violation, after his school handed him over to police for illegally downloading films when he was just 15. Read the full story

A 15 year-old boy has become the youngest Swede ever to be charged with violating copyright laws after uploading 24 films onto internet filesharing sites. Read the full story

Copyright holders have abandoned their legal battle to force the Norwegian Internet service provider Telenor into blocking the well-know file sharing website The Pirate Bay, according to one of the involved parties. Read the full story

The effects of April’s landmark new copyright laws in Sweden are beginning to emerge, as the first case related to copyright infringement has been heard by a Swedish court. An ISP provider in Sweden has been ordered by the court to hand over information on its customers to five publishers who are investigating copyright violations. Read the full story

The Swedish Court of Appeals has ruled that there will be no retrial in the case of the Pirate Bay file-sharing website. Claims were made that one of the judges in the landmark copyright infringement trial was biased against the four defendants who opened the popular file-sharing site, but the Court of Appeals felt differently. Read the full story

New details have emerged concerning the presiding judge in the Pirate Bay trial, Tomas Norstrom. It appears that Norstrom had conflicts of interest in the case, and a number of leading Swedish legal experts are now calling for a retrial. Read the full story

In a fascinating challenge to the establishment, the Swedish Pirate Party will be fielding 20 candidates in this summer’s European elections. The controversial party is running on the platform that the restrictive laws concerning copyrighted and patented material are creating a negative environment of citizen monitoring. Read the full story

“We are investigating the issue with a law firm in Hollywood and may go ahead with an injunction against the series,“ says Ingvar Thordarson, cinematic producer.

Last night the 19th episode of the third series of Heroes was aired on NBC Television in the United States, sections of which had previously been leaked on YouTube. The television show’s topic bore a striking likeness to that of Astropia (Dorks & Damsels), the Icelandic movie from 2007 produced by Thordarson and Julius Kemp, Frettabladid reports. Read the full story

Now that Apple has changed its tune and allowed the songs sold through its popular iTunes Shop to be compatible with any MP3 player, a Norwegian consumer watchdog group has dropped its official complaint lodged with the Market Council. In the past, songs purchased and downloaded via iTunes could only be played on one of Apple’s iPods. Read the full story

The Pirate Party, the youth branch of Sweden’s file-sharing and copyright reform advocacy group, has been given over a million kroner in state funding, according to The Local newspaper. Ung Pirat (Young Pirates) claims to be Sweden’s third-largest youth group, with some 4,800 members. Read the full story