Article 37Reproduction for Persons with Visual and Vision-Related Impairments; Related Matters
第三十七条（視覚障害者等のための複製等）
It is permissible to reproduce in Braille a work that has been made public.
It is permissible to use a computerized Braille processing system to record a work that has been made public onto a recording medium or transmit to the public such a work (except in a broadcast or cablecast; however, it is permissible to make the work available for transmission, if it is to be transmitted to the public via automatic public transmission; the same applies in the following paragraph).
A person set forth by Cabinet Order that engages in an undertaking related to the welfare of persons for whom it is difficult to perceive visual renderings due to a visual or other impairment (hereinafter in this paragraph and in Article 102, paragraph (4) any such person is referred to as a "person with a visual or vision-related impairment") may reproduce a work that has been made public and that is made available or presented to the public in a rendered form that is perceived visually (including a work that has been made public and that is made available or presented to the public in a form that is perceived both visually and through other senses) (including a work other than the work in question which is reproduced therein or which is made available or presented to the public in a body united with the former work; hereinafter in this paragraph and in Article 102, paragraph (4) referred to as a "visual work"), and may transmit such a visual work to the public by changing texts in the visual work into sounds or in any other form that is necessary to allow the visual work to be used by persons with visual and vision-related impairments who have difficulty in using that visual work in its visual form, within the limits that are found to be necessary in order to provide the visual work for their exclusive use; provided, however, that this does not apply if the visual work has already been made available or presented to the public in such a form by the copyright owner, a person authorized thereby, a person in favor of whom the print rights set forth in Article 79 have been established, a person authorized thereby to reproduce the visual work, or a person authorized thereby to transmit the visual work to the public.
視覚障害その他の障害により視覚による表現の認識が困難な者（以下この項及び第百二条第四項において「視覚障害者等」という。）の福祉に関する事業を行う者で政令で定めるものは、公表された著作物であつて、視覚によりその表現が認識される方式（視覚及び他の知覚により認識される方式を含む。）により公衆に提供され、又は提示されているもの（当該著作物以外の著作物で、当該著作物において複製されているものその他当該著作物と一体として公衆に提供され、又は提示されているものを含む。以下この項及び同条第四項において「視覚著作物」という。）について、専ら視覚障害者等で当該方式によつては当該視覚著作物を利用することが困難な者の用に供するために必要と認められる限度において、当該視覚著作物に係る文字を音声にすることその他当該視覚障害者等が利用するために必要な方式により、複製し、又は公衆送信を行うことができる。ただし、当該視覚著作物について、著作権者又はその許諾を得た者若しくは第七十九条の出版権の設定を受けた者若しくはその複製許諾若しくは公衆送信許諾を得た者により、当該方式による公衆への提供又は提示が行われている場合は、この限りでない。
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(Limitations on Neighboring Rights)
If a person set forth by Cabinet Order that is as referred to in Article 37, paragraph (3) and that engages in an undertaking related to the welfare of persons with visual and other such impairments…
視覚障害者等の福祉に関する事業を行う者で第三十七条第三項の政令で定めるものは、同項の規定により視覚著作物を複製することができる場合には、同項の規定の適用を受けて作成された録音物において録音されている実演又は当該録音物に係るレコードについて、複製し、又は同項に定める目的のために、送信可能化を行い…
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A person set forth by Cabinet Order that engages in an undertaking related to the welfare of persons for whom it is difficult to perceive visual renderings due to a visual or other impairment…
視覚障害その他の障害により視覚による表現の認識が困難な者（以下この項及び第百二条第四項において「視覚障害者等」という。）の福祉に関する事業を行う者で政令で定めるものは、公表された著作物であつて、視覚によりその表現が認識される方式（視覚及び他の知覚により認識される方式を含む。）により公衆に提供され…
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The owner of the right set forth in Article 21 or Article 23, paragraph (1) (hereinafter in this Chapter referred to as "the owner of reproduction rights or public transmission rights") may establish…
第二十一条又は第二十三条第一項に規定する権利を有する者（以下この章において「複製権等保有者」という。）は、その著作物について、文書若しくは図画として出版すること（電子計算機を用いてその映像面に文書又は図画として表示されるようにする方式により記録媒体に記録し、当該記録媒体に記録された当該著作物の複製物により頒布すること…
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「公衆送信」
Transmitting by radio or wire communication so that the public receives it directly, other than transmitting by telecommunications equipment whose parts are all within the same premises (or, where several occupy the premises, within the area one occupies), unless what is sent is a computer program work.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (vii-2)· applies throughout the law
broadcastcorrected by this site
「放送」
A transmission to the public (公衆送信) by radio communication, made so that the public receives the same content at the same time.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (viii)· applies throughout the law
cablecastcorrected by this site
「有線放送」
A transmission to the public (公衆送信) by wire telecommunication, made so that the public receives the same content at the same time.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ix-2)· applies throughout the law
automatic public transmission
「自動公衆送信」
A transmission to the public (公衆送信) made automatically in response to requests from the public, other than broadcasting or cablecasting.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ix-4)· applies throughout the law
available for transmission
「送信可能化」
Making something capable of being sent by automatic public transmission (自動公衆送信), either by recording or inputting information into an automatic public transmission server connected to a telecommunications network used by the public (or adding or converting a recording medium to serve as that server's), or by connecting to such a network a server that already holds or receives the information.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ix-5)· applies throughout the law
reproduction
「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
the public
「公衆」
The public, including a large number of specific persons and not only people at large.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (5)· applies throughout the law
authorization for reproductionmachine translation
「複製許諾」
The permission under Article 80, paragraph (3) that the owner of print rights (出版権者) may give another person, only with the consent of the owner of reproduction rights or public transmission rights (複製権等保有者), to reproduce the work.
Defined inArticle 3, paragraph (1)
authorization for public transmissionmachine translation
「公衆送信許諾」
The permission under Article 80, paragraph (3) that the owner of print rights (出版権者) may give another person, only with the consent of the owner of reproduction rights or public transmission rights (複製権等保有者), to transmit the work to the public.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (1)
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
visual workmachine translation
「視覚著作物」
In Article 37, paragraph (3) and Article 102, paragraph (4), a work made public that is offered or presented to the public in a form perceived by sight (including by sight together with other senses), including other works reproduced in it or offered or presented together with it as one.
Short name set inArticle 37, paragraph (3)· applies only in this paragraph and in Article 102, paragraph (4)
person with a visual or vision-related impairmentmachine translation
「視覚障害者等」
In Article 37, paragraph (3) and Article 102, paragraph (4), a person for whom perceiving what is expressed visually is difficult because of a visual impairment or other disability.
Short name set inArticle 37, paragraph (3)· applies only in this paragraph and in Article 102, paragraph (4)