Jasper Pääkkönen won the Torch Carrier Prize.
Jasper Pääkkönen’s Kalsar dispute led to the prize. Atte Kajova
Actor Jasper Pääkkönen was awarded the 2025 Torch Carrier Prize with the so-called “Kalsar dispute”.
The award of the awarded the Avate Association of the writers, actors and instructors has announced the matter on his Facebook account.
– Jasper Pääkkönen showed that the company’s right that the material described always requires permission and use and compensation must be agreed in advance. This is also the hardest core of copyright, says the chairman Mika Pohjola in publication.
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The Torch Carrier Award is a recognition issued by AVATE ry, which is awarded annually during the Screen Helsinki event. According to the organization, the recognition is awarded to the brave trendsetter in the industry who has promoted copyright or developed an audiovisual operating culture.
The Helsinki Court of Appeal resolved the Kalsar dispute about Pääkkö in June. According to the judgment, the source & Co Oy had no permission to use Pääkkönen’s name, picture and brand in its marketing because the actor had not given his consent to it.
The company was ordered to pay Pääkkönen EUR 300,000 in compensation based on the amount that the actor would accept the campaign.
Antti Timonen, chairman of the Actor Association, says in the update that the judgment confirms that the actor has the right to negotiate the use and compensation of his works without being stigmatized.
“This gives the actors a backrest to negotiate things more bolder and better in the future,” he says.
Previous recipients of the prize have been the Aalto University Film and Stage Institute and Wift Finland Action! project, former Minister of Science and Culture Antti Kurvinen (center) for his work on the reform of the copyright law and WIFT Finland thanks to their published equality tool.
The Kalsar dispute was completed in June. Matti Matikainen
This is about it
The Kalsar dispute was about whether Source & CO Oy, which sells The Other Danish Guy, the right to use the name, image and brand of Pääkkönen under their marketing.
In 2021, Pääkkönen acted as a brand ambassador for The Other Danish Guy. He then participated in the podcast recordings, which included advertising photos for the company.
However, the advertising campaign proved to be wider than he had agreed with the company what he considered out.
-I would never have agreed to make such a completely inferior Kalsari-TV advertising campaign for this compensation. By no means would I have even considered, Pääkkönen commented to Iltalehti in April.