SwitzerlandFederal Act on Copyright and Related Rights, computer programs as works (Art. 2) and the author's exclusive rights (Art. 10)
Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights (URG), exclusive rights, SR 231.1, Arts. 2 and 10
In force since .
A copyright: the exclusive rights rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- You need the author's permission to use a work: the author has the exclusive right to decide whether, when and how the work is used (Art. 10(1)).
- Do not produce copies of a work, offer, transfer or otherwise distribute copies of it, or make it available so that persons may access it from a place and at a time individually chosen by them, without the author's permission (Art. 10(2)(a), (b) and (c)).
- Treat a computer program as a work protected by copyright (Art. 2(3)), and do not rent one out without the author's permission, because the author of a computer program also has the exclusive rental right (Art. 10(3)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What this law does
Article 2 paragraph 1 of the Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights defines works as literary and artistic intellectual creations with individual character, irrespective of their value or purpose. Article 2 paragraph 3 provides that computer programs are also works. Article 10 paragraph 1 gives the author the exclusive right to decide whether, when and how his work is used.
Article 10 paragraph 2 lists the author's rights, including to produce copies of the work, to offer, transfer or otherwise distribute copies of it, and to make it available in such a way that persons may access it from a place and at a time individually chosen by them. Under article 10 paragraph 3 the author of a computer program also has the exclusive rental right. The Act came into force on .
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