In order to make a work printed in a textbook available for the leaning purposes of children or students who have difficulty using such a work printed in a textbook due to a visual impairment, developmental disorder, or other disabilities, it is permissible to reproduce the work with enlarged letters, illustrations and the like, or by any other means necessary for those children or students to use that work.
A person that seeks to prepare textbooks or any other copies in which works are reproduced pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (excluding copies in which the works are reproduced in Braille, and limited to copies in which all of or a considerable part of the works printed in the relevant textbook are reproduced; hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as a "large-print textbook, etc.") must inform the person that publishes the relevant textbook of this in advance; and, if the person distributes the large-print textbooks, etc. commercially, the person must pay the owners of the copyrights to the relevant works compensation in the amount calculated based on a method established by the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs in proportion to the amount of compensation provided for in Article 33, paragraph (2).
When the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs has established the calculation 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。
A person that provides electronic or magnetic records of the works printed in a textbook pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act to Accelerate the Dissemination of School Textbooks for Children and Students with Disabilities (Act No. 81 of 2008) may exploit those works, to the extent that is found to be necessary in order for the person to provide those electronic or magnetic records.
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(Reproduction in Order to Prepare a Large-Print Textbook)
In order to make a work printed in a textbook available for the leaning purposes of children or students who have difficulty using such a work printed in a textbook due to a visual impairment…
教科用図書に掲載された著作物は、視覚障害、発達障害その他の障害により教科用図書に掲載された著作物を使用することが困難な児童又は生徒の学習の用に供するため、当該教科用図書に用いられている文字、図形等の拡大その他の当該児童又は生徒が当該著作物を使用するために必要な方式により複製することができる。
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A person that seeks to prepare textbooks or any other copies in which works are reproduced pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph…
前項の規定により複製する教科用の図書その他の複製物（点字により複製するものを除き、当該教科用図書に掲載された著作物の全部又は相当部分を複製するものに限る。以下この項において「教科用拡大図書等」という。）を作成しようとする者は、あらかじめ当該教科用図書を発行する者にその旨を通知するとともに…
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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…
前項の規定により著作物を教科用図書に掲載する者は、その旨を著作者に通知するとともに、同項の規定の趣旨、著作物の種類及び用途、通常の使用料の額その他の事情を考慮して文化庁長官が定める算出方法により算出した額の補償金を著作権者に支払わなければならない。
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「複製」
Reproducing a work in tangible form by printing, photography, photocopying, sound or visual recording or any other means; for a script or similar work for the stage it includes recording a stage performance, broadcast or cablecast of it, and for an architectural work it includes completing a building according to its architectural drawings.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xv)· applies throughout the law
distributioncorrected by this site
「頒布」
Transferring or renting copies to the public, whether for payment or free; for a cinematographic work, or a work reproduced in one, it also includes transferring or renting copies of the film for the purpose of showing those works to the public.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xix)· applies throughout the law
work
「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
electronic or magnetic record
「電磁的記録」
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, for use in computer processing.
Defined inArticle 31, paragraph (2), item (ii)
textbook
「教科用図書」
A textbook as referred to in Article 34, paragraph (1) of the School Education Act, including as applied to other kinds of school by Articles 49, 49-8, 62, 70(1) and 82 of that Act: one approved by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, or one of which that Ministry holds authorship, which those schools must use.
Defined inArticle 33, paragraph (1)
large-print textbook, etc.
「教科用拡大図書等」
In Article 33-3, paragraph (2), a textbook or other copy reproduced under Article 33-3, paragraph (1) for schoolchildren who have difficulty using the works in a textbook because of a visual impairment, developmental disability or other disability, other than one reproduced in braille and limited to one reproducing all or a substantial part of the works in that textbook.
Short name set inArticle 33-3, paragraph (2)· applies only in this paragraph