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

¹ A work may be re­pro­duced, dis­trib­uted or made avail­able in a format which is ac­cess­ible to people with dis­ab­il­it­ies in­so­far as the work can­not be per­ceived, or can only be per­ceived with dif­fi­culty, in its already pub­lished form.

² Cop­ies un­der para­graph 1 may only be pro­duced, dis­trib­uted or made avail­able for non-com­mer­cial pur­poses, and only for the use of per­sons with dis­ab­il­it­ies.

³ Cop­ies un­der para­graph 1 and cop­ies which were pro­duced in ac­cord­ance with a cor­res­pond­ing leg­al lim­it­a­tion or ex­cep­tion in an­oth­er coun­try may be im­por­ted and ex­por­ted if:

a.

they are used ex­clus­ively by per­sons with dis­ab­il­it­ies; and

b.

they are ob­tained by a non-profit or­gan­isa­tion which, as one of its main activ­it­ies, provides ser­vices to per­sons with dis­ab­il­it­ies in the fields of edu­ca­tion, in­struc­tion­al train­ing, ad­apt­ive read­ing or ac­cess to in­form­a­tion.

⁴ The au­thor has the right to re­mu­ner­a­tion for the copy­ing, dis­tri­bu­tion and mak­ing avail­able of a work in a format ac­cess­ible to per­sons with dis­ab­il­it­ies oth­er than in the case of the pro­duc­tion of in­di­vidu­al cop­ies of the work.

⁵ Claims for re­mu­ner­a­tion may only be as­ser­ted by an au­thor­ised col­lect­ive rights man­age­ment or­gan­isa­tion.