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

¹ A per­former is any nat­ur­al per­son who per­forms a work or an ex­pres­sion of folk­lore or who par­ti­cip­ates artist­ic­ally in the per­form­ance of such a work.³²

² Per­formers have the fol­low­ing ex­clus­ive right in re­spect of their per­form­ance or its fix­a­tion:³³

a. ³⁴

to make their per­form­ance per­cept­ible in some place oth­er than that in which it was per­formed, either dir­ectly or through any kind of me­di­um, in such a way that per­sons may ac­cess it from a place and at a time in­di­vidu­ally chosen by them;

b.

to broad­cast their per­form­ance by ra­dio, tele­vi­sion or sim­il­ar meth­od, in­clud­ing by wire, as well as to re­trans­mit the broad­cast per­form­ance by means of tech­nic­al equip­ment, the pro­vider of which is not the ori­gin­al broad­cast­ing or­gan­isa­tion;

c.

to fix their per­form­ance on blank me­dia and to re­pro­duce such fix­a­tions;

d.

to of­fer, trans­fer or oth­er­wise dis­trib­ute cop­ies of their per­form­ance;

e. ³⁵

to make their per­form­ance per­cept­ible when they are broad­cast, re­trans­mit­ted or made avail­able to the pub­lic.