Payment Calendar
The payment calendar shows:
- when distributions are made
- from which sources royalties are collected
- for which time period royalties are collected
Royalties from some sources are distributed only once or twice per year, others in every distribution.
Distribution year 2025
Distribution on 13 March 2025
For 1 July 2024 to 30 September 2024
- Concerts, livestreamed concerts, festivals, events
- Background music
- Radio: Yle and commercial channels, Yle Areena Audio
- TV: Yle and commercial channels, Yle Areena AV, Ruutu ja Ruutu+
- Online and streaming services
Also:
- Royalties collected by foreign societies that have been processed before 31 December 2024
- Adjustments 03/2022–12/2024
Distribution on 12 June 2025
For 1 October 2024 to 31 December 2024
- Concerts, livestreamed concerts, festivals, events
- Background music
- Radio: Yle and commercial channels, Yle Areena Audio
- TV: Yle and commercial channels, Yle Areena AV, Ruutu ja Ruutu+
- Online and streaming services
For 2024:
- Orchestra concerts: Philharmonic orchestras, Yle RSO, Music Institutes, Concervatoires, Sibelius Academy, Garrisons
- Live music in restaurants and other events
- Music used in municipal and parish events
- Background music, concerts and live events, background music services
- Internet PVR-services
- Cinema, stage music
- Yle reproduction and cinema copies
- Also:
- Royalties collected by foreign societies that have been processed before 31 March 2025
- Mechanical reproduction royalties collected before 31 December 2024
- Balancing distribution for 2024: TV, Radio, Concerts, Background music, radio
- Subsidy for the promotion of Finnish music for 2024
- Adjustments 06/2022–03/2025
Distribution on 11 September 2025
For 1 January 2025 to 31 March 2025
- Concerts, livestreamed concerts, festivals, events
- Background music
- Radio: Yle and commercial channels, Yle Areena Audio
- TV: Yle and commercial channels, Yle Areena AV, Ruutu ja Ruutu+
- Online and streaming services
For 2024:
- Compensation for Private copying
- Online: Video on Demand
- Also:
- Royalties collected by foreign societies that have been processed before 30 June 2025
- Adjustments 09/2022–06/2025
Distribution on 11 December 2025
For 1 April 2025 to 30 June 2025
- Concerts, livestreamed concerts, festivals, events
- Background music
- Radio: Yle and commercial channels, Yle Areena Audio
- TV: Yle and commercial channels, Yle Areena AV, Ruutu ja Ruutu+
- Online and streaming services
For 2024:
- Remuneration for Public Lending
Also:
- Royalties collected by foreign societies that have been processed before 30 September 2025
- Mechanical reproduction royalties collected before 30 June 2025
- Adjustments 12/2022–09/2025
What are adjustments?
Adjustments consist of e.g. royalties accrued for previously unconfirmed works and corrections made in response to resolved disputes and complaints.
- In the top part of the image, you can see the royalties that we pay four times a year.
- In the bottom part of the image, you can see the royalties that we pay once a year on the distribution date in question.
