We recently paid more than €12 million in copying remunerations to 26 member organisations representing various fields of culture and communications. The remunerations come from the copying licences for text, images and sheet music we have sold this year.

We were looking for new authors who have had a hard time networking in the film industry in Finland and finding a suitable production company for their ideas. We received 95 applications by the deadline on 20 August.

Mikko Löyttyniemi, who has had a long career in education, explains why his new work on copyright inspires him.

More than a hundred organisations in the audiovisual industry and almost a thousand private individuals stood up in defence of AVEK in a public declaration submitted to decision-makers in early August. Despite this, the Ministry of Finance’s draft budget proposes a fatal cut in its appropriation for AVEK.

The use of cultural content on digital platforms is growing, but less and less of the revenue goes to the authors. At this summer’s SuomiAreena, authors called for stronger measures from policy-makers to ensure that people can make a living from the digital use of their works, now and in the future.

Tomi Pohto, who began working for Kopiosto towards the end of 2020, talks about what it is like to join our work community during a crisis.

Today, the Suomi elää luovuudesta (In Finland, creativity is life) campaign handed in its petition to Minister of Economic Affairs Mika Lintilä (Centre Party). In the petition, more than 4,700 well-known creative professionals and citizens appeal for increasing the appreciation and acknowledgement of the sector: for Finland, creative industries provide opportunities for sustainable growth and internationally significant commercial activities. The signees appealed to the Minister to convert cutbacks into investments and, in the future, place creative professions on an equal footing with other forms of livelihood.

We recently paid EUR 3.5 million in copying remunerations to 26 member organisations representing various fields of culture and communications. This batch involved compensations collected with regard to copying and scanning online materials for 2020.

How can creative professionals earn a living through digital platforms? How can legislation enable cultural vitality and continuity? These questions will be discussed in the SuomiAreena event of 13 July, where the creative industry will look into the future.

The campaign ‘Suomi elää luovuudesta’ (In Finland, creativity is life) already includes 4,496 widely known creative workers and citizens. Until the second week of June, the campaign challenges you to join in an appeal for the appreciation of creative work: creative industries are a sustainable growth opportunity for Finland and an internationally significant industry. The signatories demand that the cuts made in the field be turned into investments.