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• 11.11.2025
• AVEK

The Mediarata grant is open for applications until 12 December

AVEK’s Mediarata grant is intended for projects that enhance the production culture and intermediaries of the media arts. This time, a total of 90,000 euros will be distributed from the separate funding allocated by the Ministry of Education and Culture.

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• 4.11.2025
• News

Kopiosto distributes public lending remunerations to visual artists and e-audiobook narrators

The latest distribution of public lending remunerations and library use remunerations of e-materials to visual artists and e-audiobook narrators is based on lending statistics for 2023.

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• 24.10.2025
• News

Ensure that your company respects copyright when using artificial intelligence

As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in working life increases, so do the legal risks associated with copyright in businesses. Starting from the beginning of next year, we will expand our copying licence for businesses and public administration organisations to cover the feeding of third-party material into AI through prompts. We will also offer a licence for training a business’s in-house AI. This will allow organisations to use AI legally in compliance with copyright.

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• 16.9.2025
• AVEK

Apply to the new round of Kehittämö – open call until 28 November

The purpose of Kehittämö (Talent Development Lab) is to support the personal voices of new authors in the audiovisual industry. The authors chosen for this joint development programme of AVEK and the Finnish Cultural Foundation will receive financial support and personal mentoring for implementing their works.

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• 11.9.2025
• News

Creative sector at a crossroads: AI challenges the foundations of copyright

The copyright system is being challenged by the rapid development of generative AI models. Creative work is used as a raw material of AI without authors’ consent, while the recent implementation package of EU’s AI Act favors the tech giants. We interviewed international copyright organization IFRRO’s experts about the current state of EU regulation in AI and copyright.

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• 28.8.2025
• News

Nordic survey: AI has become part of teachers' everyday life

A recent survey shows that generative artificial intelligence (AI) is already widely used in schools and educational institutions in the Nordic countries. In Denmark and Norway, the use of AI is slightly more common than in Finland and Sweden so far. Despite its widespread use, many teachers believe that AI will have a negative impact on learners in the future.

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• 26.8.2025
• News

The primary payment of AV remunerations is approaching: check these things before the payment date

At the beginning of September, we will pay about 11 million euros in copyright remunerations to authors and performers of TV programmes. In this news article, we explain what authors should do to get paid quickly.

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• 26.8.2025
• News

A Joint Statement on AI Licensing from the Nordic Reproduction Rights Organisations

In their statement, the organizations encourage all AI companies to proactively engage with rightsholders and Collective Managements Organisations (CMOs) to respect creators’ rights.

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• 16.6.2025
• AVEK

Kaya Pakaslahti’s film asks: When does autofiction turn into betrayal?

Writer and director Kaya Pakaslahti explores the tension between artistic freedom and personal responsibility in her debut feature film My Year in Fiction. In the psychological drama, a teacher and a student blur the lines between art and life. This interview is part of a series introducing the filmmakers and projects selected for Kehittämö Talent Development Lab.

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• 11.6.2025
• AVEK

Narrative film by Juho-Pekka Tanskanen combines realistic and magical expression

Director Juho-Pekka Tanskanen is working on his first feature film Beatan kevät in the Kehittämö Talent Development Lab. Tanskanen, who has previously directed documentary films, explains his relationship with fictional film and talks about the significance of the cooperation between the producer and the director in terms of the film. The interview is part of a series on creators and their projects in the Kehittämö Talent Development Lab.

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• 9.6.2025
• AVEK

Laura Rantanen’s documentary film is a tribute to mobile libraries

In her film, director Laura Rantanen looks into mobile libraries, the people who use them and phenomena related to reading. The film Elämänlanka (Lifeline) defends everyone’s right to free art, information and stories. The interview is part of a series of articles presenting the creators selected for the Kehittämö programme and their projects.

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• 6.6.2025
• AVEK

The identity of a shopping centre security guard crumbles in the film by Veikko Timonen and Arman Zafari

Screenwriter Veikko Timonen and director Arman Zafari are developing the film Kaikkialla (Everywhere), which examines identity, the feeling of guilt and social rules as well as asks who the rules ultimately protect. The interview is part of a series of articles presenting the creators selected for the Kehittämö programme and their projects.

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• 3.6.2025
• AVEK

Hannu Karjalainen’s essay film is about an attempt to better understand the forest

In his film The Forest Is Wired For Wisdom, the artist Hannu Karjalainen examines trees and the forest both as organisms capable of communication and as strange and uncontrollable beings. The documentary essay advocates the biodiversity of forests. The series of articles presents the creators selected for the Kehittämö programme and their projects.

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• 10.4.2025
• AVEK

New voices get funding in the Finnish film industry

Five filmmakers have been chosen for the Kehittämö Talent Development Lab to promote their ideas for new works with the help of the funding and personal mentoring provided by this programme. A joint programme of AVEK and the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Kehittämö is a glimmer of light in the audiovisual industry, which has been ravaged by funding cuts.

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• 3.4.2025
• Blog

AVEK is a huge catalyst for growth in the audiovisual industry, despite its size

Realising the growth potential of the cultural sector requires grassroots actors like AVEK. In her blog, our Director Ulla Simonen highlights the opportunities in the audiovisual industry and how AVEK can support them. Simonen points out that cutting AVEK’s grant funds was a direct blow to the initial impetus for growth in the audiovisual industry. Fortunately, the Government’s spending limits session can still address this.

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• 24.2.2025
• Blog

CEO’s Review: The rise of AI highlights the need for an update to the Copyright Act

“The development and maintenance of copyright legislation plays a significant role in facilitating growth in the creative industry.” In his blog, our CEO Valtteri Niiranen summarises the greatest drivers of change in 2024 and sheds light on Kopiosto’s objectives for 2025.

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• 21.2.2025
• AVEK

Call for applications and seminar invitation: Young People’s Short Film Festival project

AVEK, the Church Media Foundation and Yle are launching a new cooperation project to fund four short films targeted at people aged 16–19.

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• 17.2.2025
• AVEK

Record number of applications for AVEK grants in 2024

Last year, AVEK distributed a total of €2.9 million in grants to the audiovisual industry. The plight of the industry and the foreknowledge that AVEK’s funding would be cut were reflected in an upsurge in applications. 2024 was the last normal year for AVEK. Due to the halving of AVEK’s main source of funding, the compensation for private copying, there is still no certainty about this year’s funding.

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• 17.2.2025
• AVEK

AVEK invites applications for scriptwriting support, project grants and support for international promotion

Due to the cut in the compensation for private copying, we have not yet received the funds for this year. However, we will open the call for applications for some of the grants with the help of grant funds carried over from last year and the national funds granted by the Kopiosto Board.

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• 11.2.2025
• News

Highlights from 2024

In 2024, we promoted copyrights and the operating conditions of the creative industries while preparing for and reacting to changing conditions in accordance with our role. The beginning of a new year is a good time to take a look at the past and go over the most important events of the past year.

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