What does our copying licence enable?
Our copying licence enables
- photocopying excerpts from various types of publications, such as articles from newspapers, magazines, professional publications, scientific journals and excerpts and images from books and research reports.
- printing copyrighted material from a digital source, such as online newspaper or magazine articles, online publications and reports
- using copies as additional material to original teaching and consultation material or as the teaching and consultation material if there is no original material available.
You are authorised to copy a maximum of 20 pages of a single publication, but not more than half of the publication. You can copy 10 % of the total page number of SFS standards or publications that include such standards, but not more than a total of 20 pages.
During a licence period, you may produce as many copies of pages of copyrighted works as the licence acquired for a photocopier allows you to, but not more than 500 copies of the same work or publication.
Our licence for training and consulting does not apply to the copying of workbooks, exercise books, answer books, sheet music, song lyrics or international standards or producing copies of works for the purposes of publishing.
Our licence does not apply to material that the copying of with Kopiosto’s licences has been prohibited by the author, publisher or another copyright holder (list of works and copyright holders)
Our licence for training and consultation activities does not apply to scanning or digital copying and usage.
How to acquire a licence
You can order a copying licence for training and consultation activities filling this order form or by contacting us by email: kopiointiluvat@kopiosto.fi.
If your organisation has several subsidiaries, you can centralise the acquisition of licences to all your companies or the whole group.
How much does the licence for training and consultation activities cost?
We offer licences that allow the copying of copyrighted material in quantities of 1,000, 2,000, 5,000 and 10,000 pages. Select a licence that corresponds to the amount of copyrighted pages to be printed or copied during the licence period. For example, copying 10 pages of original material for 10 people counts as a total of 100 copies.
Our remuneration is based on the number of copied or printed copyrighted pages. The licence enables the copying of copyrighted materials up to the amount of pages ordered. The licence is valid for one calendar year.
The price of the licence for training and consultation activities in 2025
Fixed-term licence
| Number of pages per device per year |
Price EUR |
| 1,000 | €212.33 + VAT |
| 2,000 | €424.67 + VAT |
| 5,000 | €956.58 + VAT |
| 10,000 | €1,913.17 + VAT |
Continuous licence
| Number of pages per device per year |
Price EUR |
| 1,000 | €203.84 + VAT |
| 2,000 | €407.68 + VAT |
| 5,000 | €918.32 + VAT |
| 10,000 | €1,836.64 + VAT |