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Article 12Compilations

第十二条(編集著作物)

A compilation (except a compilation that constitutes a database; the same applies hereinafter) that, by reason of the selection or arrangement of its contents, constitutes an intellectual creation is protected as a work.

編集物(データベースに該当するものを除く。以下同じ。)でその素材の選択又は配列によつて創作性を有するものは、著作物として保護する。

The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not affect the rights of the author of a work that forms part of a compilation as referred to in that paragraph.

前項の規定は、同項の編集物の部分を構成する著作物の著作者の権利に影響を及ぼさない。

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