by KR21 Guest | Sep 4, 2026 | Finland, National Insights, News Story
Blog post by Pirjo Kangas Across Europe, the movement to reclaim control over scholarly outputs is gaining momentum, including in Finland, where the Finnish University Libraries’ Network (FUN) launched a coordinated project to implement Rights Retention strategies... 
by KR21 Guest | Sep 26, 2025 | Finland, National Insights, News Story, publishing rights
Blog post by Pirjo Kangas Momentum is building towards the European Research Area (ERA) Act, with a recent call for evidence and the draft act due to be published in the second half of 2026. The ERA Act is an opportunityto enhance the legislative... 
by KR21 Guest | Sep 6, 2024 | Finland, France, National Insights, News Story, open norms, publishing rights
KR21 National Coordinators’ IViR Copyright Summer Course Reflections Pirjo Kangas and Ophélie Wang, KR21 national coordinators for Finland and France, respectively, completed the Summer Course on International Copyright Law & Policy 2024 that took place from... 
by KR21 Guest | Dec 13, 2023 | eBooks, Finland, National Insights, News Story
Earlier in the year we wrote about the Finnish proposal to compensate authors for lending of eBooks and eAudioBooks by libraries, underlining how little it offered libraries and their users. Now the Finnish government is amending the Copyright Act, which will come... 
by KR21 Guest | Feb 14, 2023 | eBooks, Finland, National Insights, News Story
A 2023 public consultation in Finland on eBooks, to which Knowledge Rights 21 responded, has just closed. It recommends that the existing system of payment by the government for loans of books and audiobooks from public libraries is updated to cover e-books and...