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

¹ Ef­fect­ive tech­no­lo­gic­al meas­ures for the pro­tec­tion of works and oth­er pro­tec­ted sub­ject-mat­ter may not be cir­cum­ven­ted.

² Ef­fect­ive tech­no­lo­gic­al meas­ures in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 means tech­no­lo­gies and devices such as ac­cess con­trol, copy con­trol, en­cryp­tion, scram­bling and oth­er modi­fic­a­tion mech­an­isms that are in­ten­ded and suit­able for pre­vent­ing or lim­it­ing the un­au­thor­ised use of works and oth­er sub­ject-mat­ter.

³ It is un­law­ful to man­u­fac­ture, im­port, of­fer, trans­fer or oth­er­wise dis­trib­ute, rent, give for use, and ad­vert­ise or pos­sess for com­mer­cial pur­poses devices, products or com­pon­ents, or provide ser­vices which:

a.

are the sub­ject-mat­ter of sales pro­mo­tion, ad­vert­ising or mar­ket­ing with the goal of cir­cum­vent­ing ef­fect­ive tech­no­lo­gic­al meas­ures;

b.

have only a lim­ited com­mer­cially sig­ni­fic­ant pur­pose or use oth­er than the cir­cum­ven­tion of ef­fect­ive tech­no­lo­gic­al meas­ures; or

c.

are primar­ily de­signed, man­u­fac­tured, ad­ap­ted or per­formed for the pur­pose of en­abling or fa­cil­it­at­ing the cir­cum­ven­tion of ef­fect­ive tech­no­lo­gic­al meas­ures.

⁴ The ban on cir­cum­ven­tion may not be en­forced against those per­sons who un­der­take the cir­cum­ven­tion ex­clus­ively for leg­ally per­mit­ted uses.