FinlandTekijanoikeuslaki Section 50, Press Publication Publisher Right
Tekijanoikeuslaki, Finland Copyright Act, 50 sec, as amended by 3.3.2023/263
In force since .
A press publishers' right rule binding private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- Obtain the press publisher's permission before reproducing copies of its press publication and communicating it to the public for a commercial purpose in a way that lets members of the public access it from a place and at a time individually chosen by them (Sec. 50).
- You need no permission for an individual user's private or non-commercial use of the press publication, a hyperlink, or an individual word or a very short extract of it.
- A press publication is a collection composed mainly of journalistic literary works (not scientific or academic), issued periodically or updated regularly under one title, that aims to inform the public and is disseminated by any medium at the publisher's initiative, editorial responsibility and control.
- The right lasts until two years have passed from the end of the year the press publication was published, and does not apply to a press publication first published before .
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 4.1Approaches for mapping AI technology and legal risks of its components – including the use of third-party data or software – are in place, followed, and documented, as are risks of infringement of a third party’s intellectual property or other rights.
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Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does a headline with a snippet of a given length fall within 'hyvin lyhyisiin otteisiin' in 50 §:n 2 momentin 3 kohdassa tekijänoikeuslakia, when the statute sets no length?
- Does the training of an LLM-based chatbot on press publications, or the display of their content in its responses, count as communicating a press publication to the public 'ansiotarkoituksessa' (for gain) in 50 §:n 1 momentissa, the questions referred to the Court of Justice in Case C-250/25?
What this law does
Section 50 gives the publisher of a press publication the exclusive right to determine over its publication by reproducing copies of it and communicating it to the public for a commercial purpose, in a way that lets a member of the public access it from a place and at a time individually chosen by them. The right does not apply to an individual user's private or non-commercial use of the press publication, a hyperlink, or an individual word or a very short extract of the press publication.
A press publication is defined as a collection composed mainly of journalistic literary works, not published for a scientific or academic purpose, that forms a separate periodically appearing or regularly updated issue under one title, aims to inform the public about news or other subjects, and is disseminated to the public by any medium at the publisher's initiative, editorial responsibility, and control.
The right lasts until two years have passed from the end of the year the press publication was published. It does not apply to a press publication first published before . It leaves the author's own right in a work included in the publication untouched, and the author of such a work has a right to an appropriate share of the publisher's income from exercising the publisher's right.
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