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)


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Art. 8 Presumption of authorship

1 Un­less proven oth­er­wise, the au­thor is the per­son whose name, pseud­onym or dis­tinct­ive sign ap­pears on the cop­ies or the pub­lic­a­tion of the work.

2 As long as the au­thor is not named or re­mains un­known in the case of a pseud­onym or a dis­tinct­ive sign, the per­son who is the ed­it­or of the work may ex­er­cise the copy­right. Where such per­son is also not named, the per­son who has pub­lished the work may ex­er­cise the copy­right.

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