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• 7.5.2021
• News

The campaign "Suomi elää luovuudesta" (In Finland Creativity is life) starts today

Organisations and workers in the creative industries are appealing for the appreciation of the cultural field with their campaign ‘Suomi elää luovuudesta’ (In Finland, creativity is life) that starts today. The campaign brings Finns face to face with these facts that make you think: the creative industries are clearly more significant for both employment and GDP than many of the traditional ones. In addition to restoring the appreciation, the campaign demands that the cuts in the industry should be turned into investments.

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• 7.5.2021
• AVEK

For AVEK, the year 2020 was defined by the pandemic and an increased number of applications

We reacted to the situation caused by the pandemic and remote work by becoming flexible. We changed the focus of support towards personal grants, communicated even more effectively towards the applicants, and maintained a wider international presence. The number of applications increased, even though the internationalisation and training activities stopped almost completely due to the pandemic.

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Illustration licence for libraries

Using book illustrations in a video made by a library.

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• 20.4.2021
• News

The copyright act reform will bring new rights to authors as well as newspaper and magazine publishers

The EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market will change the Finnish legislation. There has been plenty of discussion on narrowing the value gap: the Directive makes platform services such as Facebook and Instagram liable with regard to the copyright of the content shared on them. But what kind of other things could result from taking the Directive into account in the Finnish copyright legislation?

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• 14.4.2021
• Meet the artist

Journalism is not a solo act 

In the work of a journalist, Anu Silfverberg is motivated by the social power of journalism. ‘This is an important profession for me that needs to be practised with honour. Not just for the sake of the industry, but the whole of society.’ 

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• 9.4.2021
• News

Copyrighted materials can now also be used in basic education in the arts. Licences for early childhood education and educational institutions do not change

The Finnish National Agency for Education has made an agreement with Kopiosto and APFI, an organisation representing the interests of producers in the field of audiovisual content production, on using copyrighted materials in teaching and early childhood education in 2021. The licences cover the copying of materials and presenting TV programmes in education.

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In addition to grants, culture needs functional structures

The creative industry has suffered severely from the limitations caused by the coronavirus. We are now constantly hearing cries for help from those working in culture: the industry needs support – more and faster. In his blog, our CEO Valtteri Niiranen points out that in addition to short-term measures, it is also important to look further, to the structures supporting the industry.

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• 25.3.2021
• Meet the artist

Konsta Punkka photographs nature near and far

Konsta Punkka’s path to becoming a professional photographer was through social media. He sees social media platforms as a factor equalising the creative industry.

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• 18.3.2021
• News

Kopiosto's new licence makes everyday life easier for artists and libraries

These days, libraries hold a lot of remote fairy tale sessions and share literature tips with the help of videos and streaming. Often, they want to show the book or otherwise use the illustration of the book in the video. This usually requires a permission.

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• 12.3.2021
• News

Kopiosto paid EUR 5.7 million in remunerations for online recording to the authors and performers of foreign audiovisual works

Remunerations collected for online recording services of TV programmes applies to foreign programmes shown on Finnish TV channels. Remunerations for 2015–2019 totalled EUR 5.7 million. Of this amount, the share of Finnish authors and performers, mainly translators, was just over EUR 700,000.

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