Ordinance
on Copyright and Related Rights
(Copyright Ordinance, CopO)

¹ The per­mit­ted use of a com­puter pro­gram in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 12 para­graph 2 CopA in­cludes:

a.

the use of the pro­gram in ac­cord­ance with its in­ten­ded pur­pose in­clud­ing load­ing, dis­play­ing, run­ning, trans­mit­ting or stor­ing the pro­gram as well as pro­du­cing a copy of the work as re­quired for car­ry­ing out these activ­it­ies by the law­ful ac­quirer;

b.

ob­serving, study­ing or test­ing the func­tion­ing of the pro­gram for the pur­pose of de­term­in­ing the ideas and prin­ciples un­der­ly­ing a pro­gram ele­ment when this is done in the con­text of per­form­ing acts of use of the pro­gram in ac­cord­ance with its in­ten­ded pur­pose.

² Ne­ces­sary in­form­a­tion on in­ter­faces un­der Art­icle 21 para­graph 1 CopA is in­form­a­tion which is es­sen­tial for es­tab­lish­ing the in­ter­op­er­ab­il­ity of an in­de­pend­ently de­veloped pro­gram with oth­er pro­grams and which is not read­ily ac­cess­ible to users of the pro­gram.

³ Un­reas­on­able pre­ju­dice of the nor­mal ex­ploit­a­tion of the pro­gram with­in the mean­ing of Art­icle 21 para­graph 2 CopA oc­curs in par­tic­u­lar when the in­ter­face in­form­a­tion ob­tained by de­cod­ing is used to de­vel­op, pro­duce or com­mer­cial­ise a pro­gram that is ex­pressed in a largely sim­il­ar form.