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

¹ Works are lit­er­ary and artist­ic in­tel­lec­tu­al cre­ations with in­di­vidu­al char­ac­ter, ir­re­spect­ive of their value or pur­pose.

² They in­clude, in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

lit­er­ary, sci­entif­ic and oth­er lin­guist­ic works;

b.

mu­sic­al works and oth­er acous­tic works;

c.

works of art, in par­tic­u­lar paint­ings, sculp­tures and graph­ic works;

d.

works with sci­entif­ic or tech­nic­al con­tent such as draw­ings, plans, maps or three-di­men­sion­al rep­res­ent­a­tions;

e.

works of ar­chi­tec­ture;

f.

works of ap­plied art;

g.

pho­to­graph­ic, cine­ma­to­graph­ic and oth­er visu­al or au­dio-visu­al works;

h.

cho­reo­graph­ic works and works of mime.

³ Com­puter pro­grams are also works.

^3bisPho­to­graph­ic de­pic­tions and de­pic­tions of three-di­men­sion­al ob­jects pro­duced by a pro­cess sim­il­ar to that of pho­to­graphy are con­sidered works, even if they do not have in­di­vidu­al char­ac­ter.⁴

⁴ Drafts, titles and parts of works, in­so­far as they are in­tel­lec­tu­al cre­ations with an in­di­vidu­al char­ac­ter, are also pro­tec­ted.