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Creative industries demand decision-makers cancel the devastating cutback on the compensation for private copying

The extensive ‘Älä anna kulttuurin kadota’ (Don’t let culture disappear) of the creative industries, which was started in June, demands that decision-makers maintain the fair compensation for private copying. According to the creative industries, the Government’s decision to cut the funding from 11 million to 5.5 million would be unjustified and devastating for the cultural offering throughout Finland.
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EUR 50 million to the creative industry. EUR 23.0 million to authors, performing others and other rightsholders of audiovisual works. EUR 21.6 million to authors and publishers of publications. EUR 2.3 million in public lending remunerations to visual artists. EUR 3.0 million in AVEK grants to audiovisual culture and the creative industry. These figures are amounts distributed by Kopiosto to copyright holders in the creative industry in 2023.

Kopiosto distributed EUR 50 million of copyright remunerations for the creative industry

Kopiosto paid copyright remunerations to copyright holders both directly and through the organisations that represent them. A total of EUR 23 million was distributed to the authors of television programmes and performing artists, and EUR 22 million was distributed to the authors and publishers of books, magazines and musical notes. Additionally, EUR 2 million in total was distributed to visual artists as public lending remunerations.
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