Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights

¹On the com­plaint of the per­son whose rights have been in­fringed, any per­son who wil­fully and un­law­fully com­mits any of the fol­low­ing acts is li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing one year or a mon­et­ary pen­alty: ¹

a.

broad­casts the per­form­ance of a work by ra­dio, tele­vi­sion or sim­il­ar means, in­clud­ing by wire;

b.

fixes a per­form­ance of a work on blank me­dia;

c.

of­fers, trans­fers or oth­er­wise dis­trib­utes cop­ies of a per­form­ance of a work;

d.

re­trans­mits a broad­cast per­form­ance of a work by means of tech­nic­al equip­ment, the op­er­at­or of which is not the ori­gin­al broad­cast­ing or­gan­isa­tion;

e.²

makes a per­form­ance of a work made avail­able, a broad­cast per­form­ance of a work or a re­trans­mit­ted per­form­ance of a work per­cept­ible;

e^bis.³

uses a per­form­ance of a work un­der a false name or un­der a name oth­er than the artist name des­ig­nated by the per­former;

e^ter.⁴

makes a per­form­ance of a work, a phono­gram or au­dio-visu­al fix­a­tion or a broad­cast avail­able through any kind of me­di­um in such a way that per­sons may ac­cess them from a place and at a time in­di­vidu­ally chosen by them;

f.

re­pro­duces a phono­gram or au­dio-visu­al fix­a­tion and of­fers, trans­fers or oth­er­wise dis­trib­utes the re­pro­duc­tions;

g.

re­trans­mits a broad­cast;

h.

fixes a broad­cast on blank me­dia;

i.

re­pro­duces a broad­cast fixed on blank me­dia or dis­trib­utes cop­ies of such re­pro­duc­tions;

k.⁵

re­fuses to no­ti­fy the re­spons­ible au­thor­ity con­cerned of the ori­gin and quant­ity of the car­ri­ers of a per­form­ance pro­tec­ted un­der Art­icles 33, 36 or 37 in his pos­ses­sion that have been un­law­fully man­u­fac­tured or placed on the mar­ket, or to name the re­cip­i­ents and dis­close the ex­tent of any dis­tri­bu­tion to com­mer­cial and in­dus­tri­al cus­tom­ers.

²Any per­son who has com­mit­ted any act men­tioned in para­graph 1 for com­mer­cial gain shall be pro­sec­uted ex of­fi­cio. The pen­alty is a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing five years or a mon­et­ary pen­alty. The cus­todi­al sen­tence must be com­bined with a mon­et­ary pen­alty.⁶