Creative and IP rights · France and Switzerland : separate country-labelled rules
Copyright infringement: organise the evidence
Online copyright infringement requires two separate records: the claimant's rights in the work and the allegedly unauthorised use. French and Swiss remedies must be identified independently. Preserve original versions, dated publication evidence, licences and the copied material. A person's image rights and a photographer's copyright concern different interests, even when the same photograph is involved.
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What establishes the creation history?
Preserve drafts, source files and dated communications. A timestamp helps chronology but does not by itself establish protectable originality.
Read the referencesYour question concerns “Copyright infringement: organise the evidence”. I can help organise the facts and records. Which document have you received or prepared, and is this a French or Swiss matter?
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Which work was reproduced?
Identify the original and challenged copy precisely. Copyright in a photograph and the depicted person's image rights are different questions.
Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L111-1Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L122-4Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L332-1231.1 : Art. 8 Présomption de la qualité d’auteur231.1 : Art. 10 Utilisation de l’œuvreINPI : Agir contre les contrefacteurs
Which records are still missing from your file?
Indicate which records you have. The result identifies gaps and prepares a complete question for Julie, without requiring an account.
Fictional example · Your preparation
Point to complete: Licence or permission. Read the licence's uses, media, duration and territory. Giving credit does not necessarily replace permission.
- Original work
- Record available
- Dated creation records
- Record available
- Challenged reproduction
- Record available
- Licence or permission
- Needs checking
- Records indicated
- 3 / 4
- What permission was actually granted?
This worksheet organises records; it does not establish admissibility, entitlement or a procedural outcome.
What establishes the creation history?
Preserve drafts, source files and dated communications. A timestamp helps chronology but does not by itself establish protectable originality.
Which documents answer which questions?
| Record or information | Issue to check |
|---|---|
| Original work | Identify the original and challenged copy precisely. Copyright in a photograph and the depicted person's image rights are different questions. |
| Dated creation records | Preserve drafts, source files and dated communications. A timestamp helps chronology but does not by itself establish protectable originality. |
| Challenged reproduction | Show the allegedly reproduced elements side by side. Similarity alone is not a completed infringement finding. |
| Licence or permission | Read the licence's uses, media, duration and territory. Giving credit does not necessarily replace permission. |
Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L111-1Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L122-4Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L332-1231.1 : Art. 8 Présomption de la qualité d’auteur231.1 : Art. 10 Utilisation de l’œuvreINPI : Agir contre les contrefacteurs
What permission was actually granted?
Read the licence's uses, media, duration and territory. Giving credit does not necessarily replace permission.
Which elements appear in both versions?
Show the allegedly reproduced elements side by side. Similarity alone is not a completed infringement finding.
Which French rule concerns reproduction?
CPI L122-4 addresses reproduction or representation without consent. Applicable exceptions must be assessed separately, alongside the work's protection.
Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L111-1Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L122-4Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L332-1231.1 : Art. 8 Présomption de la qualité d’auteur231.1 : Art. 10 Utilisation de l’œuvreINPI : Agir contre les contrefacteurs
Which official provision helps explain this situation?
L'auteur d'une oeuvre de l'esprit jouit sur cette oeuvre, du seul fait de sa création, d'un droit de propriété incorporelle exclusif et opposable à tous.
In plain English: CPI L122-4 addresses reproduction or representation without consent. Applicable exceptions must be assessed separately, alongside the work's protection.
What is the Swiss starting point?
The Swiss Copyright Act distinguishes a protected work and the author's exploitation rights. Do not import French procedures or assume every creation qualifies.
Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L111-1Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L122-4Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L332-1231.1 : Art. 8 Présomption de la qualité d’auteur231.1 : Art. 10 Utilisation de l’œuvreINPI : Agir contre les contrefacteurs
How should financial effects be recorded?
Separate known exploitation, invoices and alleged loss. An online licence price is not automatically the damages recoverable.
What belongs in the infringement file?
Combine original, creation history, copy and permission evidence. The comparison prepares review without deciding infringement or submitting a takedown.
What other questions arise in this file?
What establishes the creation history?
Preserve drafts, source files and dated communications. A timestamp helps chronology but does not by itself establish protectable originality.
Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L111-1Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L122-4Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L332-1231.1 : Art. 8 Présomption de la qualité d’auteur231.1 : Art. 10 Utilisation de l’œuvreINPI : Agir contre les contrefacteurs
Which elements appear in both versions?
Show the allegedly reproduced elements side by side. Similarity alone is not a completed infringement finding.
Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L111-1Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L122-4Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L332-1231.1 : Art. 8 Présomption de la qualité d’auteur231.1 : Art. 10 Utilisation de l’œuvreINPI : Agir contre les contrefacteurs
Which French rule concerns reproduction?
CPI L122-4 addresses reproduction or representation without consent. Applicable exceptions must be assessed separately, alongside the work's protection.
Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L111-1Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L122-4Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L332-1231.1 : Art. 8 Présomption de la qualité d’auteur231.1 : Art. 10 Utilisation de l’œuvreINPI : Agir contre les contrefacteurs
How should financial effects be recorded?
Separate known exploitation, invoices and alleged loss. An online licence price is not automatically the damages recoverable.
Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L111-1Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L122-4Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L332-1231.1 : Art. 8 Présomption de la qualité d’auteur231.1 : Art. 10 Utilisation de l’œuvreINPI : Agir contre les contrefacteurs
Which official references should you consult?
- Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L111-1Légifrance
- Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L122-4Légifrance
- Code de la propriété intellectuelle art. L332-1Légifrance
- 231.1 : Art. 8 Présomption de la qualité d’auteurFedlex
- 231.1 : Art. 10 Utilisation de l’œuvreFedlex
- INPI : Agir contre les contrefacteursSource officielle
Texts cited last checked: 1 November 2026