Under Finnish law (Copyright Act 404/1961, amendments up to 608/2015), copyright belongs to the author. Copyright belongs to all authors of a work (article, publication, etc.) if there have been several authors.
Finnish National Board on Research Integrity (TENK) has published recommendations on agreements on authorship for scientific publications. TENK recommends that the principles of authorship should be discussed in research projects at the planning stage of the research well before manuscripts are offered for publication.
Figure 1: adapted from Kopiosto
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