Online Enforcement: Instruments against Internet piracy in the new Swiss copyright law (no. 3)

The planned revision of copyright law is intended to offer right holders more effective tools against online piracy. To this end, the law applies to hosting providers and creates a legal basis for the processing of personal data by rights holders.

A long road to new Copyright Act After more than six years of preparatory work, the Swiss Federal Council's draft of the new Copyright Act (E-URG) is now entering the parliamentary debate. The aim of the revision is to better align the Copyright Act with the "digital age". In particular, right holders should be given more effective tools to combat copyright infringements online. The present draft revision is based on the compromise reached by AGUR 12 (I and II), the working group on copyright initially set up by the Federal Council in 2012.