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

¹ The col­lect­ive rights man­age­ment or­gan­isa­tions must dis­trib­ute the ex­ploit­a­tion pro­ceeds in pro­por­tion to the rev­en­ue de­rived from the in­di­vidu­al works and per­form­ances. They must make all reas­on­able ef­forts to identi­fy those who are en­titled to a share of the pro­ceeds.

² If a dis­tri­bu­tion en­tails un­reas­on­able ex­pense, the col­lect­ive rights man­age­ment or­gan­isa­tions may es­tim­ate the ex­tent of rev­en­ue; the es­tim­ates are based on factors that are cap­able of veri­fic­a­tion and are ap­pro­pri­ate.

³ The pro­ceeds are di­vided between the ori­gin­al hold­ers of rights and oth­er en­titled per­sons in such a way that an equit­able share goes to the au­thor and the per­former. A dif­fer­ent dis­tri­bu­tion is per­miss­ible where the ex­pense would be un­reas­on­able.

⁴ Con­trac­tu­al agree­ments made by the ori­gin­al hold­ers of rights with third parties take pre­ced­ence over the rules of dis­tri­bu­tion.