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Copyright Regulation

Original Language Title: Tekijänoikeusasetus

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Copyright Regulation

See the copyright notice Conditions of use .

The presentation by the Ministry of Education of the Ministry of Education is governed by copyright law of 8 July 1961. (1940S) Pursuant to:

Use of works and other protected material in archives, libraries and museums (1512.2005/1036)
ARTICLE 1 (12/03/1081)

Copyright law (104/1961) Articles 16 (1) and 16 (1) and (2) and Article 16 (d) of the copyright law may be produced and made available to the public by:

1) Archives (831/1994) The archivists referred to in paragraph 1 (1) to (3) and (5);

2) the archives of the President of the Republic;

(3) archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

4) National Archives;

5) archival archives;

(6) Law on State aid to private archives (1920/2006) For archives;

(7) archives serving scientific research whose activities are substantially financed by State aid;

(8) archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church;

9) Archives of the authorities in the province of Åland.

ARTICLE 2 (12/03/1081)

Article 16, Article 16a (1) and (2) and Articles 16 (d) and 16 (d) of copyright law may be produced by copyright law in accordance with Articles 16 (1) and 16 (d) of the Copyright Act and may be made available to the public:

1) The Library of the Parliament;

(2) university law (558/2009) Libraries of universities intended for use;

(3) other scientific libraries which are maintained by the State or whose activities are substantially financed by State aid;

(4) the central library library;

5) provincial libraries;

6) The Blind Library.

Articles 16, 16 (a) (1) and 16 (d) of the copyright law may be made available to the public in accordance with Article 16 (1) and Article 16 (d) of the copyright law:

1) Storage library;

2) in the Law of Higher Education (2004) Libraries of higher education institutions.

Professional higher education 351/2003 Has been repealed by the Professional Higher Education 932/2014 .

ARTICLE 3 (12/03/1081)

Articles 16, 16 (a) (2) and 16 (d) of the copyright law may be made available to the public in accordance with Article 16, Article 16a (2) and Article 16 (d) of the copyright law:

(1) state-owned museums;

2) National Gallery;

(3) museums for university universities;

4. Specialised museums;

(5) Provincial museums;

(6) Regional art museums;

7) in the museum (729/1992) The qualifying holding or the qualifying holding of a State contribution to the museums.

§ 4 (12/03/1081)

As referred to in Article 16 (d) of the copyright law, copyright-protected material is produced and made available to the public:

1) the Law on the recording and preservation of cultural material (1433/2007) Libraries;

2) National Audiovisual Institute;

(3) Libraries (2006) Of the general public libraries.

ARTICLES 5 TO 6

Articles 5 to 6 have been repealed by A 15.12.2005/1036 .

Completion of works for disabled people (1512.2005/1036)
§ 7 (1512.2005/1036)

The right to manufacture audio books under Article 17 (2) of the Copyright Act is governed by the Law on Disabled People's Library (19,1996) For the visually impaired library, the Central Union of the visually impaired, and Finnish Deathblind rye.

The law referred to in Article 17 (2) of the Law on Copyright for the manufacture of educational material by means of a sound recording is a cultural service for the visually impaired, the school of the visually impaired of Jyväskylä, the Svenska skola för synskadade and the Invalidate Foundation. (18.12.2008/1004)

The audiobooks to be prepared shall be the name of the author and the artist performing the work.

§ 7a (1512.2005/1036)

The League of Deaths is entitled, under Article 17 (3) of the copyright law, to prepare teoscopies for the deaf and hearing-impaired.

ARTICLES 8 TO 12

Articles 8 to 12 have been repealed by A 15.12.2005/1036 .

Prohibition to proceed in an insulting manner
ARTICLE 13

The prohibition laid down in Article 53 of the Copyright Act shall be issued by the Ministry of Education.

ARTICLES 14 TO 15

Articles 14 to 15 have been repealed by A 15.12.2005/1036 .

ARTICLE 16 (15.3.1996/160)

Article 16 has been repealed by A 15.3.1996/160 .

§ 17 (1512.2005/1036)

Paragraph 17 has been repealed by A 15.12.2005/1036 .

Copyright Council
ARTICLE 18

On a proposal from the Ministry of Education on a proposal from the Ministry of Education for a term of three years, the President, the Vice-President, and a maximum of fifteen other members and each of them shall be determined by the Copyright Council.

The Copyright Council shall have a secretary appointed by the Ministry of Education. (1512.2005/1036)

§ 19

The Copyright Council must include the main copyright holders and the users of the protected sites.

The Chairperson of the Copyright Council, the Vice-President and at least one other member and their alternates shall be qualified as candidates for a degree in law, persons who are familiar with copyright, who cannot be considered as representing 1 The interests of the holders of the rights referred to in the article and the users of the protected sites.

§ 20

The decision-making powers of the Copyright Council may be exercised by the Council, in matters governed by the Council, by a Chamber set up by the Council for a specific case or a specific area.

The division shall consist of the Chairperson, for which the Council determines the members referred to in Article 19 (2), and the necessary number of other members.

ARTICLE 21

The Copyright Council shall have a quorum when the President or the Vice-President of the Council and at least five other members are present.

The quorum shall be quorum when the President of the Chamber and at least one other member is present.

§ 22 (1512.2005/1036)

The Chairperson, the members and secretaries of the Copyright Council and of its Chambers, as well as the meetings of the Council or its section, shall decide on the fees to be paid by the Ministry of Education.

ARTICLE 23

More detailed provisions on the activities of the Copyright Council may be laid down in the Council's Rules of Procedure, which the Ministry of Education, acting on a proposal from the

Compensation for the manufacture of pieces of work for private use (14.12.2006/1173)
§ 24

Paragraph 1 has been repealed by A 14.12.2006/1173 .

The apparatus referred to in Article 26a of the Copyright Act shall also be regarded as an uncut tape which is suitable for recording sound or image.

The apparatus, as referred to in paragraph 1, shall also be regarded as having all or part of sound and visual tape and other equipment, provided that the technical characteristics of the device, the design of the equipment or its packaging, In the case of a reduced proportion of the pre-production of the equipment, the quality of the stored material, the import or selling price of the equipment, or other circumstances, it can be concluded that the device is apparently intended to be used in the same way as Unrecorded device.

ARTICLE 25 (14.12.2006/1173)

The fee referred to in Article 26a of the Copyright Act shall be provided for each minute starting or for full mega-or gigata.

§ 26

In the event that the period of application of the device referred to in Article 26a of the copyright law is determined by the user or otherwise varies, the fee shall be charged on the basis of the average length of the appliance.

In the cases referred to in Article 24 (3), the fee shall be charged on the basis of the size of the device.

§ 27

The device referred to in Article 26a of the Copyright Act shall be deemed to have been manufactured when exported from the manufacturing site at the latest when it has been removed from the manufacturer's ownership. The manufacturing site shall be the area where the final production of the product is carried out, as well as the manufacturer's warehouse in the immediate context of such a site.

ARTICLE 28

The device referred to in Article 26a of the Copyright Act shall be deemed to have been imported when it has been released from customs supervision. Where the device has been imported from a Member State of the European Union, it shall be deemed imported once it has been imported over the border.

§ 29

The device referred to in Article 26a of the Copyright Act shall be deemed to have been exported when the means of transport to which the device is loaded have been definitively shipped out of the country, and when exported to the Member State of the European Union when it is otherwise Demonstrably left the country. If the device is exported by post, it shall be deemed to have been exported once it has been taken for carriage.

ARTICLE 30 (14.12.2006/1173)

In accordance with Article 26e (1) (2) of the Copyright Act, the production of a copy is considered to be an activity:

(1) is permanent and regular for the purposes of gainful employment and for the production of a copy to the public; or

(2) where the production of a copy is a condition for action or is otherwise operational and falls within the competence of the manufacturer.

A professional activity, in accordance with Article 26e (1) (4) of the Copyright Act, shall be regarded as activities which are permanent and regular and are carried out for the purposes of gainful employment.

ARTICLE 31 (14.12.2006/1173)

The organisation referred to in Article 26b of the Copyright Act shall issue an annual account statement to the Ministry of Education on the administrative costs of the charge and the return and use of the charge.

ARTICLE 32 (14.12.2006/1173)

The payment management tasks include the collection of payment by payment obligations, the supervision of the payment of the payment obligation, the maintenance of payment assets up to the account, the payment refunds and the purchase licences referred to in Article 26e of the Copyright Act. The granting of payment appropriations, in accordance with the operating plan referred to in Article 26b of the copyright law, and the conclusion of an account statement as referred to in Article 31 of this Regulation.

§ 33

The funds accruing from the levy shall be kept in separate accounts and shall be placed at the appropriate rate against the collateral and at the appropriate rate in proportion to the level of liquidity required for the recovery and operational plan of the payment assets.

§ 34 (14.12.2006/1173)

Paragraph 34 has been repealed by A 14.12.2006/1173 .

ARTICLE 35

The organisation shall provide the Ministry of Education with the possibility of inspecting the organisation's accounts, administration and the use of the funds in so far as it concerns the exercise of the tasks referred to in Article 32.

§ 36 (14.12.2006/1173)

The approval decision of the organisation referred to in Article 26b of the Copyright Act shall include information on the content of the provisions of Articles 31 to 35.

ARTICLE 37

The Ministry of Education approves the annual plan for the use of the payment appropriations referred to in Article 26b of the Copyright Act, after the time required for repayment under Article 26e (2) of the Law.

ARTICLE 38 (14.12.2006/1173)

The operational plan referred to in Article 26b of the Copyright Act shall include:

(1) in which respect the funds must be used as a direct credit to authors and indirect credit to authors for their common purposes within the meaning of Article 26a of the copyright law;

(2) administrative costs;

(3) the entities to which the funds are made; and

(4) the contribution and purposes of each entity to which the funds are used.

ARTICLE 39

The common purpose of Article 26a of the Law on Copyright is to promote, inter alia, the promotion of music, cinematographic, television and video culture, including the purpose of authors' employment and the production of cultural services, as well as training And research.

ARTICLE 40

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1995.

This Regulation repeals the copyright regulation of 25 August 1961 (441/61) With its subsequent modifications.

Entry into force and application of amending acts:

15.3.1996/160:

This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 March 1996.

15 DECEMBER 2005/1036:

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2006.

14.12.2006/3:

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2007.

3.1.2008/1:

This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 January 2008.

18.12.2008/1004:

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2009.

19.12.2014:

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2014.