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Jul 31, 2019 · Swiss copyright law is applicable to foreign-owned or foreign-operated websites if their offerings are considered to infringe authors or rights holders in Switzerland. This is usually the case if Sep 17, 2019 · Second, the drive to have pirate site-blocking introduced into Swiss law has been rejected. Unlike elsewhere in Europe, where the practice is widespread and supported by EU law, ISPs will not be required to block ‘pirate’ platforms as some copyright holders had demanded. Sep 17, 2019 · Swiss Copyright Law: Downloading Stays Legal, No Site Blocking. Switzerland's National Council has passed amendments aimed at modernizing the country's copyright law to make it more fit for the [ad_1] Switzerland’s National Council has passed amendments aimed at modernizing the country’s copyright law to make it more fit for the digital age. While services that host pirate sites or distribute content can expect a tougher ride moving forward, users will still be able to download pirate content for personal use. Furthermore, Swiss Internet service … Dec 16, 2016 · Swiss laws on downloading copyrighted material are relatively lenient compared with those in many other countries. As a result, Switzerland has been placed on a United States blacklist. The copyright law of Switzerland is based on the concept of "author's rights" ( Urheberrecht in German, droit d'auteur in French ), which is similar to the French copyright law, instead of the concept of Copyright used in common law jurisdictions. The current copyright law of Switzerland is the Swiss Federal Copyright Act of 1992, which dates from October 9, 1992 and has only seen minor revisions since then.
Council Directive 93/83/EEC of 27 September 1993 on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission
Switzerland's National Council has passed amendments aimed at modernizing the country's copyright law to make it more fit for the digital age. While services that host pirate sites or distribute content can expect a tougher ride moving forward, users will still be able to download pirate content for personal use. Nevertheless, the Swiss government argues that its copyright law reforms successfully balance the interests of copyright owners and web users, and should bring to an end the issues previously Switzerland and the new EU copyright laws Since we're not part of the EU but still have to or voluntarily comply to a lot of the laws, would these changes have to be enforced here? I'm not really familiar with the EU - Switzerland relationship, other than traveling matters
Since the Swiss Supreme Court had already ruled in 1996 that under the new Trademark Act 1992, a trademark holder could not oppose parallel imports based on his trademark right, trademark law is of no help to prevent parallel imports of copyrighted goods into Switzerland.
The Swiss government declares that this new law should strengthen the ground in the fight against online piracy and cease any discussion that criticizes Switzerland as a host country for website infringement. So this is a case where the law is being antisocial, enforcing copyright protection of works that should have been in the public domain long time ago. Good for Swiss people that they're not living in a USA protectorate and they can have their own laws. Nov 24, 2017 · As Switzerland tries to amend copyright law in a way that will appease copyright holders without alienating the public, a new draft compromise is on the table. While it will remain legal for According to Swiss law, downloading music and movies (even copyrighted works) ‘for personal use’ appears to be completely legal. ‘Personal Use’ is a bit of a general definition, but generally if you aren’t attempt to profit from the download, or distributing it to a large number of people, it’s you’re likely ok. In a statement reacting to the 2019 Special 301 report(PDF), the Swiss government said it believed the draft revision to the copyright law “constitutes a further step up in the fight against Sep 19, 2019 · From a report: Switzerland's National Council has passed amendments aimed at modernizing the country's copyright law to make it more fit for the digital age. While services that host pirate sites or distribute content can expect a tougher ride moving forward, users will still be able to download pir This week, the National Council of Switzerland passed amendments that make Swiss copyright law fit in with the digital age. The bottom line: pirated copies remain in the legal grey area. This week, the right to download copyrighted material for personal use has been reaffirmed by the National Council of Switzerland.