
Our goal is to ensure that Finland offers good conditions for working in the the creative industries as well as making and using music professionally.
Our task is to look after the rights of music authors and to promote Finnish creative music. We make sure that our rightholder members – i.e. composers, lyricists and music publishers – receive royalties when their music is used.
We are the biggest community of music authors in Finland. We represent about 41,000 Finnish and around three million foreign composers, lyricists, arrangers and music publishers. Teosto has around 30,000 customers who use music: radio and TV companies, event producers, restaurants and other businesses and organisations.
Our everyday work is guided by our values
- Openness: Transparency and efficiency are the cornerstones of our existence.
- Boldness: We want to boldly reform our operations.
- Goal-orientation: We aim to vitalise the creative economy and support new success stories.
OUR VISION: We increase the cultural and commercial importance
of music
Teosto’s strategy emphasises increasing the importance of music in society. In 2023, we refined our strategy by concentrating our resources on three strategic objectives. They cover the three most important areas of our operations.


Music is an important part of people’s lives and society. We want to create an environment in Finland where music can be enjoyed in many different ways and created professionally. Collective management is an efficient way to promote the rights of composers, lyricists, arrangers and music publishers. We manage the licensing of their rights in various contexts and the distribution of royalties.

We act as an intermediary between our members and the users of music: without us, everyone who wants to use music would have to make a separate agreement with each rightholder. Thanks to our network, music users have access to not only all Finnish music but also foreign music.

Music creates jobs, business, exports and tax revenue for Finland. Music also promotes public health and well-being and improves quality of life, which acts as a preventive element and reduces costs from health care and social welfare services.

We take responsibility for the diversity of music and for improving the working conditions of future generations of music authors. A diverse music industry also significantly supports the preservation of a nation’s identity and language, its mental resilience and its ability to overcome crises

Teosto published a Code of Conduct that acts as a guideline for Teosto’s work and procedures. The Code of Conduct was drawn up in cooperation with Teosto’s staff, and it guides day-to-day actions towards both internal and external stakeholders.
Read our Code of Conduct