🔗 Share this article Danish national individual receives suspended prison term for distributing explicit film scenes on the social platform Reddit A Denmark-based man has been found guilty of sharing sexually explicit segments from copyrighted movies and television shows on the online platform Reddit. Based on a law enforcement report reviewed by BBC News, the unnamed man posted 347 video excerpts of nude scenes in a subreddit he moderated, which were then viewed 4.2 million-plus times. Danish police state he has been given a seven-month suspended sentence for copyright infringement. Legal analysts explain the man was prosecuted under a rarely-used provision in Denmark's copyright law, with the court finding that by taking the scenes out of their original context, the man had damaged the performers' "moral rights". He has also been found guilty of distributing more than 25 terabytes of protected digital content. From spring 2022 to mid-2023, the user known as "KlammereFyr" on Reddit uploaded adult clips including over 100 female performers. He shared them in the forum he was a administrator of. Per the Danish copyright protection organization The Rights Alliance (TRA), his subreddit had more than 6,000 members and participants were prompted to request excerpts of specific performers. In last year, advocates filed the case to the authorities on behalf of the affected artists, filmmakers and producers, which led to the subreddit being closed down. Andrea Vagn Jensen, one of the performers whose explicit scenes were circulated in the community, told local media at the time she felt there was a distinction between appearing unclothed in a movie and appearing on Reddit. The actress said the posts amounted to "exploitation". 'A significant message' The man was arrested in fall 2024 and pleaded guilty to the allegations last month. In a statement after the ruling, TRA head Maria Fredenslund said the decision sent an "significant" message "that infringements of artists' rights have repercussions". The ruling is considered unique in Denmark for its application of the "moral rights" section of the national copyright law, which specifies an artist's work cannot be utilized in a manner which violates their reputation. Intellectual property expert a legal scholar told BBC News the legal matter was "unusual" for its emphasis on the harm to the integrity of an artist, rather than to them economically. How the ruling could affect other countries is uncertain. But she said there may be "an increasing number of these actions" in the future with the growth of AI, where "the sanctity of an individual's work might be compromised much more easily".