Law and Film - a Complicated Marriage - Intellectual Property as a Hindrance for the Artistic Freedom in Film.

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to analyse, from a Swedish legal perspective, if the concept of intellectual property is a hindrance for the concept of artistic freedom in film and make suggestions on how such a problem can be handled. After using mainly a legal realism approach and both Internet and literature sources the conclusions are that intellectual property is a hindrance for the artistic freedom in film, due to the big influence that intellectual property has on what is transmitted through films, that this is a problem and that mandatory changes (legislation) should be done for artistic films.