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

¹A col­lect­ive rights man­age­ment or­gan­isa­tion may also as­sert the ex­clus­ive rights of rights hold­ers who are not rep­res­en­ted by it for the use of a large num­ber of pub­lished works and pro­tec­ted per­form­ances, and for which as­ser­tion is not sub­ject to the au­thor­isa­tion re­quire­ment un­der Art­icle 41, in­so­far as the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments are ful­filled:

The li­censed use does not im­pair the nor­mal ex­ploit­a­tion of pro­tec­ted works and per­form­ances.

The col­lect­ive rights man­age­ment or­gan­isa­tion rep­res­ents a sig­ni­fic­ant num­ber of rights hold­ers with­in the scope of the li­cence.

²Works loc­ated in col­lec­tions of pub­lic and pub­licly ac­cess­ible lib­rar­ies, archives or oth­er memory in­sti­tu­tions are con­sidered to be pub­lished with­in the mean­ing of para­graph 1.

³The col­lect­ive rights man­age­ment or­gan­isa­tions shall make the ex­ten­ded col­lect­ive li­cences known in an ap­pro­pri­ate man­ner be­fore they come in­to force, in par­tic­u­lar via pub­lic­a­tion in eas­ily ac­cess­ible and trace­able loc­a­tions.

⁴Rights hold­ers and hold­ers of an ex­clus­ive li­cence may re­quest the col­lect­ive rights man­age­ment or­gan­isa­tion which is grant­ing an ex­ten­ded col­lect­ive li­cence to ex­clude their rights from a par­tic­u­lar col­lect­ive li­cence; the ap­plic­ab­il­ity of this col­lect­ive li­cence to the pro­tec­ted works or pro­tec­ted ser­vices in ques­tion ends with the re­ceipt of the opt out no­tice.

⁵Neither the pro­vi­sions re­gard­ing tar­iffs (Art. 46 and 47) nor the pro­vi­sions re­gard­ing the su­per­vi­sion of tar­iffs (Art. 55–60) ap­ply to ex­ten­ded col­lect­ive li­cences; however, pro­ceeds from these ex­ploit­a­tions must be dis­trib­uted in ac­cord­ance with the prin­ciples of Art­icle 49. Ex­ploit­a­tion un­der this art­icle is sub­ject to the ob­lig­a­tion to provide in­form­a­tion and render ac­count (Art. 50) and the su­per­vi­sion of the con­duct of busi­ness (Art. 52–54).