Grant decisions made in 2023
SET granted a total of €18,315 of Kopiosto grants based on a decision by its board. In this round, grants were awarded to eleven different applicants or working groups for four different purposes: studying the audiovisual industry in Finland (1 grant), developing one’s own professional competence (3 grants), purchasing a software licence (2 grants) and as free grants (5 grants). A total of 65 applications were received by the deadline, and their quality was very high. The working group that processed the grant applications and the SET board want to warmly thank all applicants.
This year was the first when SET awarded Kopiosto grants. In the process, an anonymous application method was piloted in which only the Chairperson of the Board was aware of the identities of the applicants. All operators and students in the audiovisual industry were available to apply for grants for copyrighted work or studying regardless of the fact if they are or are not members of SET. The decisions complied with the rules regarding the use of Kopiosto’s collective remunerations. The grant working group wants to commend, in particular, the clear work plans and objectives of the projects that received support.
Next time, grants will be awarded in 2024.
Awarded grants:
For studying the audiovisual industry in Finland
Tuomas Gröndahl
€1,000
Developing own professional competence
Maarit Tuononen
€1,000
Intensive make-up and hairdressing course for costume designers in the television industry.
Tiina Hietanen
€1,040
Participating in BBC Studios’ Creative Exchange in London with the objective of learning more about creating major formats, content development, utilising social media in programme marketing and viewer engagement.
Frans Åkerberg
€800
Screenwriting studies in Los Angeles and New York.
Purchasing a software licence
Anna Mellin
€250
Purchasing a screenwriting software licence.
Saara Jolkkonen
€525
Purchasing a licence for CLO 3D modelling software.
Free grant
Mirva Valkeapää
€1,300
Writing and recording an accessible article “Sokea kuvaaja, kädetön kuvaaja” (“Blind cinematographer, armless cinematographer”). How to enable work with a diagnosed visual defect? What about studying cinematography without a whole limb?
Jenni Kaunisto
€2,000
Writing a script for a documentary film. A follow-up documentary shot over ten years of four former art students and their relationship to art.
Petri Kärkkäinen
€4,000
For the shooting and travel expenses of the experimental cinematic essay Inarijärvi.
Kerttu Jaatinen
€2,400
Recording and editing the radioplay for the Winnie The Ooh animated short film’s animatic and further development of the project with a partner as 50/50 cooperation.
Katja Niemi
€4,000
Social documentary film on inequality on children’s plates. Working as the director of a documentary film in the development stage.
What are Kopiosto grants all about?
On the basis of the Copyright Agreements for Audiovisual Authors, Kopiosto sells licences for the secondary use of television programmes, for instance, such as home recording or use in educational institutions. Kopiosto pays the remunerations collected from these licences personally to the authors.
In addition, Kopiosto returns to its member organisations online recording remunerations that the member organisations distribute back to the authors as grants, scholarships and awards.
The grants distributed by SET are funded with the copyright remunerations collected by Kopiosto. Kopiosto collects the copyright remunerations based on the number of the Copyright Agreements for Audiovisual Authors, and that is why SET recommends that all grant applicants grant their Copyright Agreement for Audiovisual Authors to SET. The person granting the Copyright Agreement for Audiovisual Authors does not have to be a SET member.