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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)

Art. 29 In general

1 A work is pro­tec­ted by copy­right as soon as it is cre­ated, ir­re­spect­ive of wheth­er it has been fixed on a phys­ic­al me­di­um.

2 Pro­tec­tion ex­pires:

in the case of com­puter pro­grams, 50 years after the death of the au­thor;
abis.23 50 years after pro­duc­tion for pho­to­graph­ic de­pic­tions and de­pic­tions of three-di­men­sion­al ob­jects pro­duced by a pro­cess sim­il­ar to that of pho­to­graphy if the de­pic­tions do not have in­di­vidu­al char­ac­ter;
b.
in the case of all oth­er works, 70 years after the death of the au­thor.

3 Where it is has to be as­sumed that the au­thor has been dead for more than 50 or 70 years24 re­spect­ively, pro­tec­tion no longer ap­plies.

4 Art­icles 30 and 31 do not ap­ply to pho­to­graph­ic de­pic­tions and de­pic­tions of three-di­men­sion­al ob­jects pro­duced by a pro­cess sim­il­ar to that of pho­to­graphy if the de­pic­tions do not have in­di­vidu­al char­ac­ter.25

23 In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 27 Sept. 2019, in force since 1 April 2020 (AS 2020 1003; BBl 2018 591).

24Re­vised by the Fed­er­al As­sembly Draft­ing Com­mit­tee (Art. 58 para. 1 ParlA; SR 171.10).

25 In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 27 Sept. 2019, in force since 1 April 2020 (AS 2020 1003; BBl 2018 591).