Protection of Classics is a provision of intellectual property law that is included in the Copyright Acts of the Nordic countries.
[1] According to this stipulation, it is forbidden to treat a work of art in a manner which violates cultural interests after the death of the author.
[2] This concerns also cases in which the copyright is no longer in force or has never existed, that is, material in the public domain.
For instance in Denmark, it was ruled that also the Gospels are protected by this paragraph of the Copyright Act.
After appeals, the Supreme Court of Finland upheld the prohibition issued by the Finnish Ministry of Education.