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This thesis examines how copyright agreements should be interpreted in light of the Swedish Supreme Court’s judgment in NJA 2025 p. 162, Deckarserien. The central questions that the thesis explores are how the specification principle previously has been applied in Swedish courts and whether Deckarserien introduced anything new regarding the interpretation of copyright agreements, or whether the case merely constitutes a clarification of existing law. The thesis also examines the concept of contract types and in what ways the Swedish Supreme Court has attached importance to the contract type when interpreting contracts. The thesis finds that in Swedish legal literature it has long been assumed that a specification principle applies to copyright agreements, despite the absence of clear support in statutory law or binding precedent from the Supreme Court. The principle has been described either as meaning that only those parts of a copyright that are expressly identified in an agreement are transferred, or as establishing a presumption that unclear or ambiguous copyright agreements should be interpreted restrictively in favour of the author. This principle has been applied by district courts and courts of appeal as well as by specialized courts such as the Labour Court and the Patent and Market Court of Appeal. In Deckarserien, the Supreme Court rejected the notion that special interpretative principles should be applied to copyright agreements. Instead, the Court held that such agreements are to be interpreted in accordance with the general principles of contract interpretation, with the possibility of taking into account special copyright-specific considerations. Examples of such considerations include the author’s potentially vulnerable position, the author’s personal connection to the work, and the reproducibility of a work. Based solely on previous Supreme Court precedents, Deckarserien may be understood as a clarification of the legal position and as a further development of the method of contractual interpretation, particularly as reflected in NJA 2010 p. 559, in which the Supreme Court presented various interpretative factors relevant to copyright agreements. This conclusion is further supported by the fact that the case was not decided in plenary session. However, the precedent may be seen as entailing a change—if not in substantive law, then in actual legal practice in specialized and lower courts—particularly given that the Patent and Market Court of Appeal applied a specification principle as recently as in its review of Deckarserien. Compared to the application of a specification principle, the new method articulated by the Supreme Court can be understood as an erosion of copyright protection, as it no longer exists an assumption that copyright interests exist or a presumption for a restrictive interpretation of unclear agreements. The precedent can be said to introduce something new through the Supreme Court’s explicit rejection of special interpretative principles for copyright agreements. Deckarserien also illustrates the complex relationship between contractual interpretation and the burden of proof.