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

¹ Where two or more per­sons have par­ti­cip­ated artist­ic­ally in a per­form­ance, they are jointly en­titled to the re­lated rights un­der Art­icle 7.

² Where per­formers ap­pear as a group un­der a com­mon name, the rep­res­ent­at­ive named by the per­form­ing group shall have the au­thor­ity to as­sert the rights of the mem­bers. In­so­far as the group does not name a rep­res­ent­at­ive, the per­son who pro­duces the per­form­ance or fixes it on blank me­dia, or who broad­casts it has the au­thor­ity to as­sert the rights.

³ In the case of a chor­al, or­ches­tral or stage per­form­ance, use of the per­form­ance un­der Art­icle 33 re­quires the con­sent of the fol­low­ing per­sons:

a.

the so­loists;

b.

the con­duct­or;

c.

the dir­ect­or;

d.

the rep­res­ent­at­ive of the per­form­ing group un­der para­graph 2.

⁴ Any per­son who has the right to ex­ploit a per­form­ance on an au­dio-visu­al fix­a­tion is con­sidered to be au­thor­ised to per­mit third parties to make the fixed per­form­ance avail­able in such a way that per­sons may have ac­cess to it from a place and at a time in­di­vidu­ally chosen by them.

⁵ In the ab­sence of the cor­res­pond­ing stat­utory or con­trac­tu­al pro­vi­sions, the re­la­tion­ship between the au­thor­ised per­sons un­der para­graphs 2 and 4 and the per­formers whom they rep­res­ent is gov­erned by the pro­vi­sions on agency without au­thor­ity.