Solo entrepreneur’s licences for the responsible use of materials
By obtaining licences for both consulting activities and training and course activities, you can ensure that you use copyrighted material responsibly. With the licences, you can, for example, copy excerpts from printed publications, copy full articles and images and use the copies in your consultancy work. The licence for consulting activities also allows these materials to be used as prompts for AI. You can easily obtain the licences you need by logging into our licence store.
Licence for consulting activities for solo entrepreneurs
The licence for consulting activities allows you to include copies in slideshows that you present to those participating in the consulting activities.
Consulting activities mean the expert service that your company provides to solve challenges and development needs related to your customer’s operations. This may involve advisory services, guidance, studies, surveys, assessments or similar expert work. Consulting activities are not tied to a specific industry.
A slideshow means a presentation, such as a PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation, that you have prepared yourself for consulting activities or a consulting tender.
For slideshows, you may copy excerpts and images from Finnish and foreign books and other printed publications and newspaper and magazine articles, as well as materials that are available online with the consent of the copyright holder that are accessible without requiring you to purchase a separate licence or other right of access. You may also utilise e-books to which you have access based on a subscription or agreement.
If you create a slideshow with our licence, you are allowed to:
- present the slideshow to the participants of consultation sessions in person or remotely
- distribute the slideshow by email, on a closed platform or as paper copies or printouts to the participants of consultation sessions or the tendering phase of consulting services, as well as partners and subcontractors of the consulting services.
You may not make copies of:
- materials that are used under a separate agreement or licence, such as newspaper and magazine materials behind a paywall, digital standards, or content available on the SFS Online or Rakennustieto digital services
- works created by private individuals and shared by them on social media, discussion forums, blogs or image-sharing services
- images sold separately from an article or other publication by photo agencies and similar organisations
- workbooks or answer keys
- sheet music or song lyrics
- works or publications the copying and use of which under Kopiosto’s licence have been prohibited by the copyright holder.
You may not use slideshows created with our licence in your external communications, such as in marketing, publishing activities or on social media. The licence for consulting activities does not permit the use of text or images in AI applications, text or data mining, or the development or training of AI.
Remember to provide the source and the author
You must include in the slideshow the source and author information for all content copied into it and a mention that the slideshow was made under Kopiosto’s copying licence.
Help us distribute remunerations
Information about the copying and use of works is required to distribute remunerations collected from copying to copyright holders. You can report any copies you have made in our reporting service.
Use of artificial intelligence
You can use the output of the AI application to support your own work for purposes such as:
• as a source of inspiration
• to develop ideas.
See the licence terms for more details and the frequently asked questions about the use of AI.
Licence for training and course activities for solo entrepreneurs
The licence for training and course activities allows you to use copyrighted materials for training and course activities organised by your company when no ready-made, published training materials are available.
You may copy excerpts and images from Finnish and foreign books and other printed publications and newspaper and magazine articles, as well as materials available online with the consent of the copyright holder that are accessible without requiring you to purchase a separate licence or other right of access. You may also utilise e-books to which you have access based on a subscription or agreement.
- You may distribute paper copies or printouts to training groups.
- You may include images or excerpts from publications in training or course materials that you have prepared yourself.
- You may store, in a closed network, copies or materials in which you have included images or text excerpts under Kopiosto’s licence. The copies may be kept available to the training group for the duration of the training or course.
- You may present and show copies via a closed network to training groups participating in remote, hybrid, online and in-person training. You may include the works shown or presented during a training situation in a recording of the training situation that is accessible only to those participating in the training or course.
In remote and hybrid training, you may copy and share the necessary part of a workbook and answer key for revision purposes, provided that the training participants are using the original workbook. You may share the copies with the participants on paper, by email or as a file saved to a closed network.
The licence does not allow you to make copies of:
- workbooks or answer keys
- a publisher’s digital learning materials
- materials that are used under a separate agreement or licence, such as newspaper and magazine materials behind a paywall, digital standards, or content available on the SFS Online or Rakennustieto digital services
- works created by private individuals and shared by them on social media, discussion forums, blogs or image-sharing services
- images sold separately from an article or other publication by photo agencies and similar organisations
- works or publications the copying and use of which under Kopiosto’s licence have been prohibited by the copyright holder.
You may not use copies created with our licence in your company’s external communications, such as in marketing, publishing activities or on social media.
See the licence terms for more details.
Remember to provide the source and the author
In connection to copies and slideshows, you must provide the author and publication details and mention that the copies were made under Kopiosto’s copying licence.
Help us distribute remunerations
Information about the copying and use of works is required to distribute remunerations collected from copying to copyright holders. You can report any copies you have made in our reporting service.
How much do solo entrepreneur’s licences cost?
| Product | Sales unit | €/year |
| Licence for consulting activities | single licence | €50.00 |
| Licence for training and course activities | 100 participants | €125.00 |
The current VAT will be added to the prices.
Purchase licences in our licence store
You can obtain solo entrepreneur’s licences for consulting activities, training and course activities or even both by logging into our licence store.
Purchase a solo entrepreneur’s copying licence
