No collecting society has published how it will split AI income between authors and publishers; the nearest published collective split is 17.5 percent to authors from UK newspaper licensing
Finland's Kopiosto says the fees it collects go to authors and publishers through its member organisations, which pass them on, among other ways, as grants and prizes, and that the member organisations decide the content and conditions of any AI licence. Copyright Agency says only that fair payment to members is a key principle and that more detail will follow. The UK's PLS says the training scheme was built with CLA and ALCS, keeps the scheme's FAQ and licence terms in its publisher-only section, and states no split on its public pages. The nearest published collective split is for newspaper licensing: PLS pays 17.5 percent to authors (through ALCS) and 10 percent to visual artists before the rest goes to publishers, under its Rights Valuation effective 1 January 2016. That is a figure for NLA media access, the UK newspaper licence, not an AI figure.
Dated 31 Oct 2026Source checked 31 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 1 Nov 2026Basis: indicative
“jotka jakavat ne edelleen tekijöille ja kustantajille muun muassa erilaisina apurahoina ja palkintoina.”
Kopiosto, FAQ on the AI extension (how fees reach authors and publishers), checked 31 Oct 2026
Kopiosto, AI development rights (who decides licence terms), checked 31 Oct 2026
Copyright Agency, AI Q&A for members (payment), checked 31 Oct 2026
Publishers' Licensing Services, Annual Review 2025-26 (NLA split), checked Jun 2026
- The only prices collecting societies publish for AI are per-employee add-ons for prompting; none publishes a training price per title, so a catalogue is priced by negotiation
- Since June 2025 Finland's Kopiosto has added a category of rights for the training and development of artificial intelligence to the grant of rights creators sign, so it can license that use and act against unauthorised use. A licence is drawn up only if the creators and rightsholders wish it, its terms are decided by the 44 member organisations, and a creator may exclude a work.
- Over 700 publishers took part in the first payment (March 2026) of the UK's workplace AI rights under the CLA business and public-sector licences, which let staff prompt AI tools with extracts from opted-in content and do not allow training. The separate scheme for training, fine-tuning and retrieval opened to publishers' opt-in in March 2026.
It is shown on its own, not counted into a figure.