It is permissible to quote and thereby exploit a work that has been made public. In such a case, the work must be quoted consistent with fair practices and within a scope that is justified for the purpose of news reporting, critique, study, or other place in which the work is quoted.
公表された著作物は、引用して利用することができる。この場合において、その引用は、公正な慣行に合致するものであり、かつ、報道、批評、研究その他の引用の目的上正当な範囲内で行なわれるものでなければならない。
It is permissible for publicity materials of a national government agency, etc. to be reprinted as explanatory materials in a newspaper, magazine, or other printed publication; provided, however, that this does not apply if it is expressly indicated that this is prohibited.
国等の周知目的資料は、説明の材料として新聞紙、雑誌その他の刊行物に転載することができる。ただし、これを禁止する旨の表示がある場合は、この限りでない。
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「著作物」
In Subsection 5 of Section 3 of Chapter II, a work (著作物) in the narrow sense that is the subject of a copyright, not the wider 著作物等 (works, performances, phonograms, broadcasts and cablecasts) that the Ministry's English also calls 'work'.
Short name set inArticle 30, paragraph (1)· applies only in this subsection
publicity material of a national government agency, etc.
「国等の周知目的資料」
In Article 31, paragraph (1), item (i), Article 31, paragraph (2) and Article 32, paragraph (2), public relations materials, research or statistical materials, reports and similar works that an organ of the national or a local government, an incorporated administrative agency (独立行政法人) or a local incorporated administrative agency (地方独立行政法人) prepares to inform the general public and makes public under its own name.
Short name set inArticle 31, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies only in this provision and in Article 31, paragraph (2); and Article 32, paragraph (2)