Authors and owners of dramatic, dramatico-musical and choreographic works, get in touch with SSA!
Whether you are a member of SSA or not affiliated with an authors’ society or not, a resident of Switzerland or abroad: the Swiss Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights (CopASwiss Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights (Copyright Law)) stipulates a mandatory remuneration for the retransmissionSimultaneous, integral and unaltered transmission of a radio or TV broadcast via cable network (or retransmission facility) via an entity other than the original broadcaster. Retransmission rights are subject to mandatory collective management. of radio/TV via cable networks, for private copying or for the educational usage, in case that your workIntellectual property creation in literature and art (as well as computer programmes) exhibiting an individual and therefore unique character. Said individual character is the prerequisite that a work can be protected. is broadcast on one of the SRG SSR channels, but also on one of the major foreign channels that are retransmitted in Switzerland. You are entitled to these rights independently of your contract, except if you were a permanent salaried employee of a broadcaster.