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Comment by aurea

9 months ago

Can you point to any official document which states it is illegal? Or any document which mentions any exceptions?

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throw101010  9 months ago

Art. 19, Paragraph 4 of the Copyright Act (CopA [1]).

The article lists the "Published works [that] may be used for private use" and that paragraph closes it with:

> This Article does not apply to computer programs.

[1] https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1993/1798_1798_1798/en#ar...

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