Finland has implemented the Ephemeral recordings made by broadcasters (Art. 5.2(d) InfoSoc) exception in §25f (2) of the Copyright Act. The national exception is slightly more restrictive than the EU exception.
Implementation summary:
This exception allows for broadcasting organisations, which are entitled to transmit a work, to make a copy of said work for use in their own broadcasts for a maximum of four times during one year.
Implementation details:
Beneficiaries:
- broadcasting organisations
Purposes:
- not specified
Usage:
- reproduction
Subject Matter:
- works
- performances
- phonograms
- film fixations
- broadcasts
- photographs
Compensation:
- no compensation required
Attribution:
- the author's name and the source must be, as a general rule, stated to the extent and in the manner required by proper usage
Other Conditions:
- beneficiaries must be entitled to transmit a work
- beneficiaries can copy works for use in their own broadcasts for a maximum of four times during one year
Introduced/last updated: 01 January 2006
Remarks: All other uses outside the exception or for a perod longer than a year are subject to extended collective licensing schemes under §26 of the Law.
The exceptions apply also to performances (art.45(7) of the CA); sound recordings (art.46(3) of the CA); film fixations (art.46a(3) of the CA); broadcasts (art.48(4) of the CA) and photographs (art.49a(3) of the CA).
Art. 11(2) requires that when a work is used publicly under an exception, the author's name and the source must be, as a general rule, stated to the extent and in the manner required by proper usage. It also requires that the work must not be altered more than necessary for the intended use."
