It is permissible to print a work that has been made public in a textbook (meaning a textbook provided for in Article 34, paragraph (1) of the School Education Act (Act No. 26 of 1947) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 49; Article 49-8; Article 62; Article 70, paragraph (1); and Article 82 of that Act); the same applies hereinafter), to the extent that this is found to be necessary for the purpose of school education.
A person that prints a work in a textbook pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must inform the author of this and pay compensation to the copyright owner in the amount calculated based on a method established by the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs in consideration of the purport of the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the nature and purpose of the work, the ordinary rate of royalties, and other conditions.
When the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs has established the method referred to in the preceding paragraph, the commissioner announces this using the internet or by any other appropriate method.
文化庁長官は、前項の算出方法を定めたときは、これをインターネットの利用その他の適切な方法により公表するものとする。
The provisions of the preceding three paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to the reproduction of works in textbooks intended for use in high school correspondence courses (including correspondence courses for the upper-class levels of a school for secondary education) and in the teachers' manuals for textbooks (limited to teachers' manuals published by the person publishing the textbooks).
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