SwitzerlandFederal Act on Copyright and Related Rights, protection of titles (Art. 2(4)), temporary copies (Art. 24a), quotation (Art. 25) and reporting current events (Art. 28)
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- Treat drafts, titles and parts of works as protected by copyright where they are intellectual creations with an individual character (Art. 2(4)).
- You may quote a published work if the quotation serves as an explanation, a reference or an illustration, and the extent of the quotation is justified for that purpose (Art. 25(1)).
- Designate the quotation as such and give the source, and cite the author's name where the source indicates it (Art. 25(2)).
- For the purposes of information about current affairs, you may reproduce, distribute, broadcast or retransmit short excerpts from press articles or from radio and television reports, if you make full reference to the excerpt and the source and cite the author's name where the source indicates it (Art. 28(2)).
- You may make temporary copies of a work only if they are transient or incidental, represent an integral and essential part of a technological process, serve solely to enable a transmission of the work in a network between third parties by an intermediary or a lawful use of the work, and have no independent economic significance (Art. 24a).
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What this law does
Article 2 paragraph 4 of the Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights protects drafts, titles and parts of works, insofar as they are intellectual creations with an individual character. Article 25 paragraph 1 allows published works to be quoted if the quotation serves as an explanation, a reference or an illustration and the extent of the quotation is justified for such purpose.
Under article 25 paragraph 2 the quotation must be designated as such and the source given, and where the source indicates the name of the author, the name must also be cited. Article 28 paragraph 2 allows short excerpts from press articles or from radio and television reports to be reproduced, distributed, broadcast or retransmitted for the purposes of information about current affairs, with full reference to the relevant excerpt as well as the source.
Article 24a permits the making of temporary copies of a work if they are transient or incidental, represent an integral and essential part of a technological process, have as their sole purpose to enable a transmission of the work in a network between third parties by an intermediary or a lawful use of the work, and have no independent economic significance. Article 24a was inserted with effect from . The Act came into force on .
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