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– What is this parody about? Prosecutor David Ludvigsson wanted to know.
He is active in the National Unit against Organized and International Crime, a branch of the prosecution that normally deals with multinational drug syndicates, war crimes and other nasty things at the highest division.
Today was about something that at first glance may seem more trivial, but is probably just as important and can have consequences that are as far-reaching as they are unpleasant.
Did author and comedian Aron Flam commit copyright infringement when he provided the famous illustration “A Swedish tiger” with a swastika on the cover of a book he published? Yes, the police believe and have taken over the entire edition.
Or is the increase to be judged as a satire or a parody, something that may upset some, but is within the sometimes fuzzy limits allowed?
The show was held in Stockholm The old city hall, opened in 1915, partially burned down in 2011 and restored in accordance with most of the rules of the art, in room 37, a room where previously Assange requested the lifting of the arrest and three policemen denied having committed a crime when Eric Torell was shot and killed.
The prosecutor’s introductory prelude and wavy paragraphs included an image in which Flam is wearing a t-shirt with an actual tiger, on which Ludvigsson generously noted that he has no opinions.
Another was more elusive. The swastika tiger has been featured on Instagram, in blog posts and on Facebook.
Aron Flam’s book “This is a Swedish tiger”
The issue of legality The dispute was originally created by artist Bertil Almqvist in 1941 to be used in a government campaign during the ongoing world war that was intended to remind people to be vigilant about handling information.
Today, the foundation behind the small Emergency Preparedness Museum owns the rights. In the spring, his agents almost legally managed to scare the Skåne Region into withdrawing a campaign featuring the figure “A Swedish Raccoon” and now they have been cursed in Flam.
After the prosecutor, it was time for Monique Wadstedt, a skilled lawyer who not only knows copyright issues like running water, but has long been a singing and dancing woman who never felt uncomfortable to the light from television cameras.
“Everything is in dispute,” he began confidently.
No crime, no seizures to last, nothing. Damages to testify? There isn’t even financial damage to deal with here!
– It is very unusual for books to be confiscated. It hasn’t happened since the Mein fight, he muttered and handed the floor over.
(It was 1998. The poor on the Supreme Court could not decide who had the copyright to Hitler’s works. The seizure was lifted).
Llama, dark jacket, well-groomed beard, light shirt and glasses, not long ago he had irradiated a professor of humanities with a background in 68-left, today it is not easy to tell, he sat next to her, listened carefully and from time to time in when he took notes. .
Photo: MAGNUS WENNMAN
Aron Flam.
Of course, they were the big media houses represented to follow a battle that has already received considerable attention in the press.
But there were also more unusual actors like Swebb-tv, Nyheter i dag, and Ledarsidorna, sites that to varying degrees and success have immigrants and conspiracies on their minds.
A lady from Latino Magazine asked if it was okay to take pictures in the hallway. I replied that such action would not be helpful for Councilor Carl Rosenmüller’s blood pressure and would likely result in a fine.
It is not easy being a beginner. Ask Expressen cultural figure Victor Malm, who didn’t get accreditation and the hardest way was to find out that he didn’t even get a spot among the eleven listeners in a room connected by a glass wall that overlooks the room.
However, Kajsa Haidl of DN Kultur had the administration in order. On this particular day, it was not difficult to pick winners and losers among the Marieberg brothers.
Lunch came and went. Attorney Wadstedt was talking and talking and oxygen was pouring in and I vaguely heard that Aftonbladet in the 1930s was friendly to Germans.
– I have to wash the dishes, suddenly a male voice was heard above the courtroom.
“Do it honey,” replied a woman.
It was Christina Billgren, daughter of artist Almqvist and witness in the case, who rang on the link.
When it was his turn to speak, it was clear to him: Dad had been very angry because his photo was being used in this way.
Extra rest. It was after two o’clock. The beautiful late-summer day was seeping through the drawn blackout curtains.
Photo: MAGNUS WENNMAN
Aron Flam in court.
Time finally for Flam to be heard.
– Did you know anything about the copyright of the tiger ?, wanted to know the prosecutor.
– I have not used Almqvist’s tiger but I have created my own work, replied the accused.
– I repeat the question, said the prosecutor.
– What you consider a copyright infringement, I consider it art, Flam replied.
He has not always been so supportive. In a submissive email to the angry representative of the Emergency Management Agency, Maria Andrée, she has said that she does not want to be sued and is willing to accept that this is an intrusion.
Palme and PLO leader Arafat Stefan Löfven and Nazi architect Albert Speer all went through the comedian’s account of Swedish shame during World War II.
He believes that the cover should be seen in light of the fact that his book is about the indifference of the Social Democrats towards Germany once in the world.
A reasonable view of the time. On the other hand, not original either. Those who spin the story that the state is now trying to obscure Flam’s “revelations” are speaking of qualified anointing.
In another of all these possibilities At the leg stretch that was distributed, the editor Gustaf Moell offered me to come to the “Trial Gala” tonight in an old cinema. The guest list included famous influencers, popular comedians, and the occasional member of parliament who tweeted.
Moell was full of anticipation but expressed some concern that Frej Larsson, the rapper who will appear in Supreme Court with a goldfish on Instagram, would come forward and poke fun.
The plaintiff’s attorney, Andrée, was given the floor. He said that if the tiger is used in political contexts or if someone wants to make money from it, it will be a police report.
He spoke of unpleasant conversations and threats against the people who run the museum.
Aftonbladet is not the right forum To get lost in the labyrinths of copyright, the limited publication Juridisk Tidsskrift is kindly but strongly recommended to connoisseurs, but let me point out that there is some practice.
In the Supreme Court, P3 got away with turning Alfons Åberg into a drug dealer and a pimp, for example.
I believe and hope that Flam is released. But the result is not entirely certain. Sweden itself has traditionally considered satire and parodies as independent works. Copyright is balanced by the so-called “parody exception”.
However, the EU and Member States harmonization in copyright infringement, although the legal confusion that followed the movie Iron Pipe showed that there is room for satire here too.
First a quarter past five, then We’ve all struggled for a long time to stay awake, the attorneys involved were ready with their final comments.
If the prosecutor’s opinion of the area prevails, probably all the local parody magazines are produced by criminals.
And if the State in the event of a conviction in a possible turbulent future will have the tools to suppress satire, one of the most effective weapons in the political struggle, we should not even think.
Powerful words like “scandal” and “disaster” are used today over everything and nothing. But it would be extremely awkward if Flam were found guilty.
We cannot have a Sweden where it is not allowed to drive with sacred cows.
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