Work registration
Why are there provisional works in my works database?
Time and again, works are performed, broadcast or reproduced before they have been registered with SUISA. Such works are stored …
#Reports on music use
Outlook
2023 – a year where everything returns to “normal”?
Events are taking place again, crowds are common once more and masks have mostly fallen – everything’s peachy, right?
Commercial with music
I want to advertise my products: What steps do I have to take with SUISA?
The production of advertising involves several areas. If you are producing an audiovisual commercial created and/or disseminated in Switzerland, you …
Livestream licensing by SUISA
Driven by the pandemic, livestreaming of the most varied forms of events has grown in significance. Thanks to this technology, …
Online licensing activities require early work registrations
From a sales perspective, online music distribution provides enormous opportunities. With little effort, music can be made available to a …
The revised copyright law has come into force
The coronavirus pandemic has naturally eclipsed this event. Yet the amended Federal Copyright Act came into force on 1 April …
Brave new world
There is hardly any other technical development that has turned the music business upside down as much as the success …
Personnel changes in SUISA’s Music Department
At the end of September 2018, Ernst Meier, Head of the Music Department, retired after 33 years’ work for authors …
Why our members don’t have to notify SUISA whether their works are on Youtube
Members have recently asked us along the lines of ‘how, where and when can I tell SUISA that my works …