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Film, video and photography Legislation pertains mainly to the production of feature and documentary films, to television and radio activities and the censorship of films and videos (and, currently also to computer and console games). Support for national production of feature films is channelled via the Finnish Film Foundation. The Act and the Decree on Film Production (2000, 2007) defines the organisation, structure and functions of financial support channelled via the Foundation to Finnish cinema. Besides the main function, this support embraces also distribution and various forms of export, international co-productions, promotion and PR-activities. Acts on Radio and Television, on... read more →

If we exclude education, the Finnish cultural policy measures reach architecture only as an art form and architects as artists. Consequently, the overall legislation on public promotion of the arts and financial support for artists presented in Table 11 of chapter 4.2.4 contains, in addition to education and training, the only directly relevant legislation. The Build Heritage Protection Act 498/2010 (originally Building Protection Act 60/1985, repealed by the present Act) protects buildings, built areas and built cultural environments, which have value from the perspective of cultural history. This protection pertains to buildings in zoned areas. The Land Use and Building... read more →

Under the auspices of the Copyright Act some copyright compensation has been channelled to rights' owners as grants. Thus, authors and translators have had, in addition to opportunities offered by the state artists' grant system, a special grant system under the Act on Grants and Subsidies for Authors and Translators (1961). The funds for the grants are channelled via the state budget. Grants must be applied and there is a special board for peer group evaluation. The 2005 amendments of the Copyright Act presuppose that a new compensation system is adopted. This system is based on an individual author's right... read more →

See the legislation in Table 10, Section XI for legislation, chapter 3.1 and chapter 1.3.1-1.3.3 for their contents and contexts.

Legislation for performing artists is the same as the general legislation covering individual artists presented in Table 11 in chapter 4.2.4, see also chapter 1.3.1.

Finnish legislation on the arts and artists covers, on the one hand, public support and artists' rights on an individual level and, on the other hand, public support to the cultural and art institutions. The latter will be discussed in greater detail in chapter 1.3.3. The following Table contains information on the main legislation for the arts and individual artists. It indicates that this legislation pertains mainly to financial support, that is, the systems of artists' grants and pensions and support to projects and to the enhancement of creative environments. See also  chapter 7.2.1 to 7.2.4. Table 11:  Promoting the... read more →

Table 10 below gives an overall view of current legislation, which addresses directly cultural policy issues or indirectly shapes them. The left hand column lists acts and also their most relevant recent amendments, which, in a way, tell the history of debates and objectives after they have become enacted as legislation. The comments in the right hand column summarise the content and cultural policy relevance of the listed legislative act. The code numbers of the acts link them to Finlex, the database / information system of Finnish legislation. Table 10 in toto demonstrates the supremacy of Parliament as the final... read more →

Legislation guarding the maintenance of free business competition has obviously had some preventive effects also in the culture industries by curtailing the formation of price-setting monopolies and cartels. The Finnish agency responsible for the implementation of this legislation (Finnish Competition Authority) undertook e.g. an investigation (1998-1999) into a major fusion of the leading Finnish media company with a major publishing house and a company of kiosks distributing books and journals. In some other EU countries the EU directives that aim at preventing competition restrictions have jeopardised the prevailing systems of setting fixed book prices by publishers as these systems have... read more →

The Swedish-speaking Finnish population is not only a national minority. The basic ideology of nation-building stipulates that Finland has two parallel cultures, one based on the Swedish-language and the other on the Finnish-language. The rights of the Swedish-speaking population are guaranteed in the newly re-codified Finnish Constitution (1999) and further enacted by a special Language Act, which, together with some special laws, provides for equality for official (administrative, court) use of the native language and access to education and public careers. The new Language Act was passed in 2003 and was enforced from the beginning of 2004; it does not... read more →

The three main laws are the Personal Data File Act (523/1999), the Act on the Exercise of Freedom of Expression in Mass Media (460/2003) and the Act on the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communication (516/2004). The first of these laws (harmonised in 1998 to concur with Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) pertains to the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. The second law stipulates the responsibility of publishers and producers of public performances and network communications in respect of preventing the... read more →