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

¹ The au­thor has the ex­clus­ive right to his own work and the right to re­cog­ni­tion of his au­thor­ship.

² The au­thor has the ex­clus­ive right to de­cide wheth­er, when, how and un­der what au­thor’s des­ig­na­tion his own work is pub­lished for the first time.

³ A work is con­sidered to be pub­lished when it has been made avail­able for the first time by the au­thor, or with his con­sent, to a large num­ber of per­sons not con­sti­tut­ing a private circle as defined in Art­icle 19 para­graph 1 let­ter a.