SVT Europa

In the late 1997, SVT started broadcasting via satellite to Swedes living in Europe outside Sweden. The programmes in the channel comprise Swedish material from the Swedish channels SVT 1 and SVT 2. This is a digital channel, which is made available through the use of a special decoder card that is provided. The Swedish Broadcasting Corporation (SVT) pays remuneration to Copyswede based on the number of cards issued each year. This remuneration covers the rights of authors, performers and phonogram producers.

SVT Europe is retransmitted simultaneously over the air in Southern Finland. The retransmission is licensed by Copyswede´s sister organisation Kopiosto. Copyswede receives remuneration in accordance with a reciprocity agreement with this organisation. The composers share will have already been deducted and passed on to STIM by their Finnish sister organisation Teosto. Copyswede distributes remuneration for the transmission of SVT Europa within the framework of the same distribution system as for cable TV remuneration.