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

¹The rights hold­ers whose copy­right or re­lated rights are in­fringed may pro­cess per­son­al data in­so­far as this is es­sen­tial for the pur­pose of fil­ing a crim­in­al com­plaint or re­port­ing a crim­in­al of­fence and they may law­fully ac­cess the data. They are also per­mit­ted to use this data for as­sert­ing civil claims to be joined to the crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings, or for as­sert­ing claims after the con­clu­sion of crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings.

²They must dis­close the pur­pose of the data pro­cessing, the type of data pro­cessed and the scope of the data pro­cessing.

³They may not link the per­son­al data un­der para­graph 1 with data col­lec­ted for oth­er pur­poses.