Swedish Supreme Court MP3 Ruling

Molander writes: "The Swedish HD (Supreme Court in Sweden) rules that making mp3's available for download on the Internet is equivalent to public broadcast. Link (in Swedish): link. This means that copying mp3's over the Internet is not the same as making a physical copy and giving it away. This also means that mp3's do not fall under the copyright laws but are covered by the public broadcast laws. The young man charged is therefore found not guilty of any copyright violations but may still be charged with paying broadcast fees to the copyright owners." This sort of ruling wouldn't really help in the U.S., since the music industry charges fees for broadcasting music as well.