In traditional media, the responsible publisher who is legally responsible for the content, for example, has been plagiarized by another author, but outside the traditional garbage the issue is a bit grim. When the Cultural News reviewed the podcast Svenska Mordhistories and the sister pod Svenska Rån, we found several examples of extensive plagiarism.

Bauer Media, which owns large radio channels such as NRJ and Mix Megapol, also runs the podcast platform Radioplay. Radioplay distributes both Swedish Murder Stories and Svenska Rån, and Bauer Media also sells advertisements to the popular programs. However, they say that Bauer Media has no responsibility for the content of the programs on their platform, but refers to podcast creator Sebastian Krantz.

Both parties may have legal responsibility

But it is an explanation that Olle Wilöf, copyright lawyer at the Journalist Association, does not give much to:

- Swedish law and the Swedish constitution are not so much based on the producer of articles, but on the publicist, the one who owns the medium. Then in the name of logic Bauer media and Spotify should of course take responsibility, Olle Wilöf tells the Culture News.

An image shared by Sanna Wolk, professor of intellectual property law. Should any of the authors whose texts have been plagiarized choose to proceed legally, it is they themselves who decide who they want to direct their financial claims to, and then both Bauer Media and Sebastian Krantz can be subject to damages claims.

- What is special about copyright is that the author himself can decide who he wants to direct his financial demands to - the production company or the one who supplied the content, says Sanna Wolk.