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

¹ If a mu­sic­al work, with or without lyr­ics, has been fixed on a phono­gram in Switzer­land or abroad and has been offered, trans­ferred or oth­er­wise dis­trib­uted in this form with the per­mis­sion of the au­thor, all man­u­fac­tur­ers of phono­grams with a com­mer­cial es­tab­lish­ment in Switzer­land may also re­quest per­mis­sion from the copy­right own­er to do the same in Switzer­land against re­mu­ner­a­tion.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may waive the re­quire­ment of a com­mer­cial es­tab­lish­ment in Switzer­land in the case of na­tion­als of coun­tries grant­ing re­cipro­city.