Realising the growth potential of the cultural sector requires grassroots actors like AVEK. In her blog, our Director Ulla Simonen highlights the opportunities in the audiovisual industry and how AVEK can support them. Simonen points out that cutting AVEK’s grant funds was a direct blow to the initial impetus for growth in the audiovisual industry. Fortunately, the Government’s spending limits session can still address this.

“The development and maintenance of copyright legislation plays a significant role in facilitating growth in the creative industry.” In his blog, our CEO Valtteri Niiranen summarises the greatest drivers of change in 2024 and sheds light on Kopiosto’s objectives for 2025.

The compensation for private copying, which is an essential source of financing for AVEK, will be halved next year. “We are now waiting for information on how the compensation will be divided among the various operators and what the share of the distributable funds in 2025 will be. This wait may take a while.” In her blog, Director of AVEK Ulla Simonen reflects on the influencing efforts conducted during the past year and considers the future outlook.

The “Älä anna kulttuurin kadota” (Don’t let culture disappear) campaign that started last week demands that decision-makers maintain just compensation for private copying. In her blog, AVEK Director Ulla Simonen talks about what cuts to this compensation would mean in practice.

The partial update of the Copyright Act improved the position of the authors, publishers and performing artists that we represent. New licensing opportunities also became available for Kopiosto. Additionally, we paid EUR 50 million to the creative industry.

Our CEO Valtteri Niiranen expects the government’s proposal on the Copyright Act to be postponed until 2022. “The most important partial reform of the Copyright Act in years is underway, and a time-out is now needed to prepare the Act again.”