Perception of a work

‘Perception of a work’ simply means to take notice of a work, i.e. reading, looking at, listening to a work, etc. (Hilty, Urheberrecht, 2011, 128). This is always permitted.

Other parties involved in copyright

Logically, copyright does not only address the author. Several parties have an interest in a created work: The author creates the work and possibly also wants to be paid for their work;Agents who are known as mediators of copyrighted work help authors to make their...

2.5-5 An e-learning platform is constructed according to the ideas and structures invented by its developers. A lecturer would now like to use this structure for his teaching. May the lecturer do so without the consent of the platform developers?

Yes and no. The e-learning platform is a database and therefore a collected work pursuant to Art. 4 CopA. It is protected with regard to the selection and arrangement of the content (data) when this can be viewed as an intellectual creation with individual content....