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

¹ Any per­son who rents or oth­er­wise makes avail­able for a fee cop­ies of lit­er­ary or artist­ic works owes re­mu­ner­a­tion to the au­thor.

² No ob­lig­a­tion to pay re­mu­ner­a­tion ex­ists for:

a.

works of ar­chi­tec­ture;

b.

cop­ies of works of ap­plied art;

c.

cop­ies of works ren­ted or lent for a con­trac­tu­ally agreed use of copy­right.

³ Claims for re­mu­ner­a­tion may only be as­ser­ted by the ap­proved col­lect­ive rights man­age­ment or­gan­isa­tions (Art. 40 and seq.).

⁴ This Art­icle does not ap­ply to com­puter pro­grams. The ex­clus­ive right un­der Art­icle 10 para­graph 3 re­mains re­served.