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Article 118Preservation of Rights to Anonymous and Pseudonymous Works

第百十八条(無名又は変名の著作物に係る権利の保全)

The publisher of an anonymous or pseudonymous work may file the claim referred to in Article 112, Article 115, or Article 116, paragraph (1) or may claim damages or the return of the benefit of any unjust enrichment in that person's own name, on behalf of the author or the owner of the copyright to the work; provided, however, that this does not apply if the pseudonym is the name by which the author is commonly known or if the true name of the author has been registered as referred to in Article 75, paragraph (1).

無名又は変名の著作物の発行者は、その著作物の著作者又は著作権者のために、自己の名をもつて、第百十二条、第百十五条若しくは第百十六条第一項の請求又はその著作物の著作者人格権若しくは著作権の侵害に係る損害の賠償の請求若しくは不当利得の返還の請求を行なうことができる。ただし、著作者の変名がその者のものとして周知のものである場合及び第七十五条第一項の実名の登録があつた場合は、この限りでない。

A person whose true name or the pseudonym by which the person is commonly known is indicated in the customary manner on copies of an anonymous or pseudonymous work as the name of the publisher of the work is presumed to be the publisher of that work.

無名又は変名の著作物の複製物にその実名又は周知の変名が発行者名として通常の方法により表示されている者は、その著作物の発行者と推定する。

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