Upphovsrätten har den senaste tiden varit ett av de mest omdiskuterade juridiska områdena. Dagens lagstiftning ger upphovsmäns prestationer skydd under hela upphovsmannens livstid plus i ytterligare 70 år medan en utövande musikers prestation endast skyddas i 50 år. En utövande musiker har således inte samma starka skydd som en upphovsman. EU-kommissionen har emellertid lagt fram ett förslag på förändring av de regler som omfattar just de utövande musikerna.Syftet med denna uppsats är att diskutera om det finns ett behov av ett utökat skydd för utövande musiker. Vidare kommer vi att diskutera huruvida förslaget är en lämplig lösning för att uppnå ett starkare skydd för de utövande musikernas förevigade prestationer..

The aim of this study was to explore how young students can be taught during their first year of learning English towards the A1 level according to The European Framework of Reference for Languages, and how the students understand their own learning. The study was carried out in two different classes but with the same teacher, who is qualified to teach English to young learners. The result is based on the analysis of a total of twelve observations of English lessons in two classes in school year one and eight group interviews with the students. Recurrent ingredients through all lessons were activities such as listening to teacher talk, watching films or film clips, singing songs and doing rhymes, using drama activities, talking about the meaning of learning English, practicing guessing competence and learning new vocabulary. The teacher consistently talked about and taught different strategies for language learning.

A group of companies that only recently has caught the attention of Swedish designers, enterprises and media are the so -called "furniture pirates". In Sweden it?s mainly two companies that have ended up in the spotlight. The online stores Ikon M and Designers Revolt are two companies which currently sell replicas of famous Swedish and foreign designers. Although the designs sold are copyright protected in Sweden, and most other European countries, the right holders can only stand by and watch as more or less exact copies are sold for a fraction of the price of the originals.The business model - to exploit the EU?s free movement of goods and the UK's short term of copyright protection in matter of mass-produced art (industrial design) - has proven successful for the companies that practice it.