High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The copyright law of Switzerland is based on the concept of "author`s rights" (Urheberrecht in German, droit d`auteur in French), which is similar to the French copyright law, instead of the concept of Copyright used in common law jurisdictions. The current copyright law of Switzerland is the Swiss Federal Copyright Act of 1992, which dates from October 9, 1992 and has only seen minor revisions since then. In October 2007, a revision was approved in order to implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty in the act, a process started in 2004 with the release by the Swiss Federal Council of a draft project.