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Kopiosto distributes EUR 49 million in copyright remunerations to the creative industry

In 2025, Kopiosto paid EUR 24 million in copyright remunerations to the authors and performers of TV programmes and EUR 20.1 million to the authors and publishers of books, magazines, newspapers and sheet music. A total of EUR 2.6 million in public lending remunerations was paid to visual artists and EUR 70,000 in remunerations to audiobook narrators for the library use of e-materials. Additionally, AVEK, which operates as a part of Kopiosto, distributed a total of EUR 1.7 million to audiovisual culture and the creative industries.
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Ensure that your company respects copyright when using artificial intelligence

As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in working life increases, so do the legal risks associated with copyright in businesses. Starting from the beginning of next year, we will expand our copying licence for businesses and public administration organisations to cover the feeding of third-party material into AI through prompts. We will also offer a licence for training a business’s in-house AI. This will allow organisations to use AI legally in compliance with copyright.
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