Copyright: when is my work protected?
22 June 2022
1. The conditions
Art. 2 para. 1 of the Copyright and Neighboring Rights Act (CRA) provides three conditions for a work to be protected by copyright: it must be a creation of the mind, it must have an individual character and it must be a literary or artistic work.
A. The creation of the mind
For a work to be protected, it must first be the creation of the human mind. This condition can be divided…