Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights

¹Pro­tec­tion be­gins with the per­form­ance of the work or of the ex­pres­sion of folk­lore by the per­formers, with the pub­lic­a­tion of the phono­gram or au­dio-visu­al fix­a­tion, or with its pro­duc­tion if it is not pub­lished, it ends after 70 years. Pro­tec­tion of a broad­cast be­gins with its trans­mis­sion; it ends after 50 years or with the trans­mis­sion of the broad­cast; it ends after 50 years.¹

^1bisThe right to re­cog­ni­tion as a per­former un­der Art­icle 33a para­graph 1 ex­pires on the death of the per­former, but not be­fore the term of pro­tec­tion un­der para­graph 1 ex­pires.²

²The term of pro­tec­tion is cal­cu­lated from 31 Decem­ber of the year in which the event de­term­in­ing the cal­cu­la­tion oc­curred.