The Swedish Academy's mood is directed both at the National Socialist party Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) and at the movement's online magazine Nordfront, where the national romantic poets Esaias Tegnér (1782-1846), Viktor Rydberg (1828-1895) and Verner von Heidenstam are frequently quoted. (1859-1940). 

National Romanticism not National Socialism

The Academy notes that Nordfront, through its publications, more or less explicitly, claims that the authors' political and national message would be the same as NMR and Nordfront stand for. 

This, according to the Academy, is such a distortion of their literary works that is prohibited in section 51 of the Copyright Act, the so-called classic protection. It states in a short paragraph that even certain works whose copyright has expired should be protected against being reproduced "in a way that violates the interests of spiritual cultivation". 

But the Swedish Academy is trying to use the classic protection for something other than what it is for - that is the main point in the answer from NMR / Nordfront which has now been submitted to the Patent and Market Court at Stockholm District Court. 

Correct quotes not prohibited

Based on the law's preparatory work, NMR / Ordfront claims that the classic protection in section 51 was created to prevent classic works from being published in distorted editions. Mainly poorly edited and abbreviated adaptations of classics, which are published for profit by unscrupulous publishers. 

The classic protection, according to NMR / Nordfront, is a protection against distortions. It can not mean a ban on correctly reproduced quotes - completely regardless of who publishes the correct quotes and where. 

The Swedish Academy now has the opportunity to submit a new opinion no later than 28 August.