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

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


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Art. 30 Joint authorship

1 Where two or more per­sons have par­ti­cip­ated in the cre­ation of a work (Art. 7), pro­tec­tion ex­pires:

a.
in the case of com­puter pro­grams, 50 years after the death of the last sur­viv­ing joint au­thor26;
b.
in the case of all oth­er works, 70 years after the death of the last sur­viv­ing joint au­thor27.

2 Where the in­di­vidu­al con­tri­bu­tions may be sep­ar­ated, pro­tec­tion for each con­tri­bu­tion ex­pires 50 or 70 years28 re­spect­ively after the death of the re­spect­ive au­thor.

3 In the case of films and oth­er au­dio-visu­al works, the cal­cu­la­tion of the term of pro­tec­tion is based solely on the date of the death of the dir­ect­or.

26Re­vised by the Fed­er­al As­sembly Draft­ing Com­mit­tee (Art. 58 para. 1 ParlA; SR 171.10).

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

28Re­vised by the Fed­er­al As­sembly Draft­ing Com­mit­tee (Art. 58 para. 1 ParlA; SR 171.10).

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