Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights
(Copyright Act, CopA)

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 9 October 1992 (Status as of 1 January 2022)


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Art. 24 Archive and backup copies

1 One copy of a work may be made in or­der to en­sure its pre­ser­va­tion. The ori­gin­al or the copy must be stored in an archive not ac­cess­ible to the gen­er­al pub­lic and be marked as the archive copy.

1bis Pub­lic and pub­licly ac­cess­ible lib­rar­ies, edu­ca­tion­al in­sti­tu­tions, mu­seums and archives may make those cop­ies of the works re­quired to se­cure and pre­serve their col­lec­tions in­so­far as these cop­ies are not made for fin­an­cial or com­mer­cial gain.16

2 Any per­son en­titled to use a com­puter pro­gram may make one backup copy there­of; this right may not be waived by con­tract.

16 In­ser­ted by No 1 of the FA of 5 Oct. 2007 (AS 2008 2421; BBl 2006 3389). Amended by No I of the FA of 27 Sept. 2019, in force since 1 April 2020 (AS 2020 1003; BBl 2018 591).

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