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

¹ Au­thor­isa­tion is only giv­en to col­lect­ive rights man­age­ment or­gan­isa­tions which:

a.

have been foun­ded un­der Swiss law, are dom­i­ciled in Switzer­land and con­duct their busi­ness from Switzer­land;

b.

have the man­age­ment of copy­right or re­lated rights as their primary pur­pose;

c.

are open to all hold­ers of rights;

d.

grant an ap­pro­pri­ate right of par­ti­cip­a­tion in the de­cisions of the so­ci­ety to au­thors and per­formers;

e.

guar­an­tee com­pli­ance with the stat­utory pro­vi­sions, in par­tic­u­lar in terms of their art­icles of as­so­ci­ation;

f.

give rise to the ex­pect­a­tion of the ef­fect­ive and eco­nom­ic ex­ploit­a­tion of rights.

² In gen­er­al, au­thor­isa­tion is only gran­ted to a single col­lect­ive rights man­age­ment or­gan­isa­tion per cat­egory of work and to a single col­lect­ive rights man­age­ment or­gan­isa­tion for re­lated rights.