When you offer your customers the opportunity to watch Finnish free-to-air television channels, you need a public TV licence.
You can now easily obtain a licence covering a comprehensive range of television programme creators and production companies all in one place. Please put things on a proper legal footing – we will help you determine which licences you need.
With a public TV licence, you can legally show your customers and employees television programmes broadcast on virtually any free-to-air channel. There are two types of licences, depending on the intended use.
APFI and Kopiosto
The licence is administered jointly by Audiovisual Producers Finland (APFI), which represents independent production companies, and Kopiosto, a copyright organisation representing TV programme creators and actors.
For the public performance of programmes broadcast on Finnish free-to-air television channels.
Agreements on the public performance of television programmes should have been made with audiovisual copyright holders for some time, but in practice this has been impossible until now.
Customers often find it more pleasant when they have the opportunity to watch television during their visits. With a public TV licence, TV programme creators and production companies receive the compensation they are entitled to for the public performance of their work.
With a public TV licence, you may show both domestic and foreign programmes broadcast on Finnish free-to-air TV channels in your public premises.
With a public TV licence, you can handle all your licensing needs related to television programme creators and producers under a single agreement. This makes distributing compensation to TV programme creators simple, easy and responsible.
In addition to the direct benefits, the licence also offers indirect benefits: showing TV programmes in customer premises, such as waiting rooms in hospitals, medical centres, repair shops and similar locations, as well as in hotels, is often very important to customers.
The licence is in use in many countries, such as the United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark and several other EU countries.
APFI and Kopiosto – the copyright organisations behind the licence – have a legal right, based on the authorisations they have received from creators and production companies, to collect this compensation if or when TV programmes are shown in public.
If works are used without permission, the copyright holders are also entitled to claim compensation for the unauthorised use.
The compensation is distributed to the creators and production companies of TV programmes through APFI and Kopiosto
The easiest way to sort out your licence situation is to contact us. Let us discuss your needs together – we will answer your questions.
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