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Article 15Authorship of a Work Made in the Course of Duty

第十五条(職務上作成する著作物の著作者)

For a work (except computer programming) that an employee of a corporation or other employers (hereinafter in this Article such a corporation or other employers are referred to as a "corporation, etc.") makes in the course of duty at the initiative of the corporation, etc., and that the corporation, etc. makes public as a work of its own authorship, the author is the corporation, etc., so long as it is not stipulated otherwise in a contract, in employment rules, or elsewhere at the time the work is made.

法人その他使用者(以下この条において「法人等」という。)の発意に基づきその法人等の業務に従事する者が職務上作成する著作物(プログラムの著作物を除く。)で、その法人等が自己の著作の名義の下に公表するものの著作者は、その作成の時における契約、勤務規則その他に別段の定めがない限り、その法人等とする。

For a work of computer programming that an employee of a corporation, etc. makes at the initiative of the corporation, etc. in the course of duty, the author is the corporation, etc., so long as it is not stipulated otherwise in a contract, in employment rules, or elsewhere at the time the work is made.

法人等の発意に基づきその法人等の業務に従事する者が職務上作成するプログラムの著作物の著作者は、その作成の時における契約、勤務規則その他に別段の定めがない限り、その法人等とする。

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