What am I allowed to copy?
Our copying licence enables
- copying and scanning articles from newspapers and magazines and excerpts from books, reports and other printed publications
- copying and scanning sheet music and song lyrics
- copying and printing images and text from the internet
- distributing copies as paper copies or printouts and by email to your organisation’s staff
- creating summaries of newspaper and magazine articles and sharing them within your organisation in digital form
- attaching images, articles and other excerpts of texts to your own presentation, internal memo or an equivalent mode of communication and
- storing the copies in a closed internal network of your organisation, such as your intranet, so that they can be only accessed by the staff of your organisation. The copies may be made available to the staff for one year.
See here what you are not allowed to copy with our licence.
The copies can be used for internal administrative purposes within your organisation, such as internal communications, research and planning and training organised for the organisation’s staff.
Our copying licence enables creating compilations of several articles for the purposes of your organisation’s internal communications and use. You may copy or scan several articles from a single newspaper or magazine, but not more than half of the published content.
You can distribute article compilations to the staff of your organisation by email or by saving them in a closed internal network.
Submit a report of digital article compilations created with our licence by sending one copy by email to raportointi(at)kopiosto.fi.
Our copying licence enables copying sheet music and song lyrics for the purpose of internal use within an organisation. A maximum of 10 pages of sheet music, song lyrics and sheet music publications can be copied or scanned per publication, but not more than half of the publication.
Copies may only be used at free events organised by your organisation, where the audience consists of the organisation’s staff. Copies of sheet music cannot be used in other public performances or in preparing for such performances.
How many copies can I produce in a company or other organisation?
| PHOTOCOPYING | 20 pages per publication; a maximum of half of the publication |
| SCANNING |
20 pages per publication; a maximum of half of the publication an entire article from a newspaper or magazine |
| PRINTING OUT | 20 pages per digital source |
| COPYING AND SAVING MATERIAL THAT IS AVAILABLE ONLINE FREELY AND WITH PERMISSION | 20 images or A4-sized pages per website |
A maximum of 10% of the total page number or 20 pages of an SFS standard can be copied or scanned. Individual components of a standard, such as a key image, table or another similar element, cannot be copied alone. Standards in electronic format can be copied and printed according to their individual licence terms.
A maximum of 20 pages per e-book can be copied, or half of the publication, unless stated otherwise in the e-book’s licence terms or other terms.
A maximum of 10 pages of sheet music, song lyrics and sheet music publications can be copied or scanned per publication, but not more than half of the publication.
See here what you are not allowed to copy with our licence.
Do you want to copy more?
If you want to use or copy material more extensively or in a way that our copying licence does not allow, you can request authorisation directly from the author or publisher