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

¹ Any per­son whose copy­right or re­lated right is in­fringed or threatened may re­quest the court:

a.

to pro­hib­it an im­min­ent in­fringe­ment;

b.

to rem­edy an ex­ist­ing in­fringe­ment;

c.⁵⁷

to re­quire the de­fend­ant to provide in­form­a­tion on the ori­gin and quant­ity of items in his pos­ses­sion that have been un­law­fully man­u­fac­tured or placed on the mar­ket and to name the re­cip­i­ents and dis­close the ex­tent of any dis­tri­bu­tion to com­mer­cial and in­dus­tri­al cus­tom­ers.

^1bis A threat to copy­right or re­lated rights is in par­tic­u­lar present in acts men­tioned in Art­icle 39a para­graphs 1 and 3 and Art­icle 39c para­graphs 1 and 3 and in the case of breach of the ob­lig­a­tions un­der Art­icle 39d.⁵⁸

² Ac­tions brought un­der the Code of Ob­lig­a­tions⁵⁹ for dam­ages, sat­is­fac­tion and hand­ing over of profits in ac­cord­ance with the pro­vi­sions con­cern­ing agency without au­thor­ity re­main re­served.

³ Any per­son who holds an ex­clus­ive li­cence is en­titled to bring a sep­ar­ate ac­tion un­less this is ex­pressly ex­cluded in the li­cence agree­ment. Any li­censees may join an in­fringe­ment ac­tion in or­der to claim for their own losses.⁶⁰