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

¹ On the com­plaint of the per­son whose pro­tec­tion has been vi­ol­ated, any per­son who wil­fully and un­law­fully com­mits any of the fol­low­ing acts is li­able to a mon­et­ary pen­alty:

a.

cir­cum­vents ef­fect­ive tech­no­lo­gic­al meas­ures un­der Art­icle 39 para­graph 2 with the in­ten­tion of il­leg­ally us­ing works or oth­er pro­tec­ted sub­ject-mat­ter;

b.

man­u­fac­tures, im­ports, of­fers, trans­fers or oth­er­wise dis­trib­utes, rents, gives or ad­vert­ises for use, or pos­sesses for com­mer­cial pur­poses devices, products or com­pon­ents, or provides ser­vices which:

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

c.

re­moves or al­ters elec­tron­ic rights man­age­ment in­form­a­tion on copy­right and re­lated rights un­der Art­icle 39c para­graph 2;

d.

re­pro­duces, im­ports, of­fers, trans­fers or oth­er­wise dis­trib­utes, broad­casts or makes per­cept­ible or avail­able works or oth­er pro­tec­ted sub­ject-mat­ter on which elec­tron­ic rights man­age­ment in­form­a­tion un­der Art­icles 39c para­graph 2 have been re­moved or altered.

² Any per­son who has com­mit­ted any act men­tioned in para­graph 1 for com­mer­cial gain shall be pro­sec­uted ex of­fi­cio. The pen­alty is a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing one year or a mon­et­ary pen­alty.

³ Acts un­der para­graph 1 let­ter c and d are only li­able to pro­sec­u­tion where they are car­ried out by a per­son who is known or, un­der the cir­cum­stances, should be known, for in­stig­at­ing, en­abling, fa­cil­it­at­ing or con­ceal­ing in­fringe­ments of copy­right or re­lated rights.