Beyond being a bit bureaucratic to classify files of other nations, but what does it mean if Sweden classify files created and kept the Norway government. Can it be used to jail Norwegian citizens if they travel to or from Sweden?
Mr Oliver Robbins, Deputy National Security Adviser for Intelligence, Security and Resilience in the Cabinet Office, indicates in his first witness statement (paragraph 6) that the encrypted data contained in the external hard drive taken from the claimant contains approximately 58,000 highly classified UK intelligence documents. Many are classified SECRET or TOP SECRET. Mr Robbins states that release or compromise of such data would be likely to cause very great damage to security interests and possible loss of life.
I call copyright infringement on grand scale. Authors' rights are internationally protected by the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. If the UK is claiming authorship of documents created by US citizen, the UK is either commit a crime or breaching international treaties.
There are weird exceptions here, and i can't remember which agencies fall into them.
It is also uncertain if you can transfer moral rights. As I understand it, it is a legal gray zone to claim someone else wrote a copyrighted work.
It's fraud - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/35/section/2, cf. Section 2(1)(b)(i).
Yes, strictly speaking there is likely to be copyright infringement when a UK agent, say, copies a foreign document. But then there will also be treason, trespass and other similar crimes being committed [along with breach of other treaties than just TRIPs] that are also necessary if agents acting for the UK [or any country] are going to carry out such work.
Espionage is generally a crime.