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

¹Pub­lic and pub­licly ac­cess­ible lib­rar­ies, edu­ca­tion­al in­sti­tu­tions, mu­seums, col­lec­tions and archives may, with­in their in­vent­or­ies that serve the pur­poses of de­scrib­ing and mak­ing their col­lec­tions ac­cess­ible, re­pro­duce short ex­cerpts of the works or cop­ies of works in their col­lec­tions, provided that this does not im­pair the nor­mal ex­ploit­a­tion of the works.

²The fol­low­ing parts of works, in par­tic­u­lar, are con­sidered short ex­cerpts:

for lit­er­ary, sci­entif­ic and oth­er lin­guist­ic works:

the cov­er as a small-format, low-res­ol­u­tion im­age,

the title,

the frontis­piece,

the table of con­tents and bib­li­o­graphy,

the dust jack­et,

sum­mar­ies of sci­entif­ic works;

for mu­sic­al and oth­er acous­tic works as well as cine­ma­to­graph­ic and oth­er au­dio-visu­al works:

the cov­er as a small-format, low-res­ol­u­tion im­age,

an ex­tract made pub­licly avail­able by the rights hold­ers,

a short ex­tract with a re­duced res­ol­u­tion or in a re­duced format;

for works of art, in par­tic­u­lar paint­ings, sculp­tures and graph­ic works, as well as pho­to­graph­ic and oth­er visu­al works: the over­all view of the work as a small-format, low-res­ol­u­tion im­age.