Article 43Reproduction for Collecting Internet Materials and Online Materials under the National Diet Library Act
第四十三条（国立国会図書館法によるインターネット資料及びオンライン資料の収集のための複製）
The Director General of the National Diet Library may record a work that is included in the internet materials set forth in Article 25-3, paragraph (1) of the National Diet Library Act (Act No. 5 of 1948) (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "internet materials") or the online materials set forth in Article 25-4, paragraph (3) of that Act onto a recording medium used by the National Diet Library, to the extent that this is found to be necessary for collecting the relevant internet materials or online materials pursuant to the provisions of those paragraphs.
国立国会図書館の館長は、国立国会図書館法（昭和二十三年法律第五号）第二十五条の三第一項の規定により同項に規定するインターネット資料（以下この条において「インターネット資料」という。）又は同法第二十五条の四第三項の規定により同項に規定するオンライン資料を収集するために必要と認められる限度において、当該インターネット資料又は当該オンライン資料に係る著作物を国立国会図書館の使用に係る記録媒体に記録することができる。
The following persons may reproduce works associated with the materials set forth in the following items, to the extent that is considered to be necessary in order for that person to make those materials available:
a person provided for in Article 24 or 24-2 of the National Diet Library Act:internet materials that the person makes available in response to a request referred to in Article 25-3, paragraph (3) of that Act;
国立国会図書館法第二十四条及び第二十四条の二に規定する者 同法第二十五条の三第三項の求めに応じ提供するインターネット資料
a person that does not fall under Article 24 or 24-2 of the National Diet Library Act:online materials set forth in Article 25-4, paragraph (1) of that Act that the person makes available pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph.
国立国会図書館法第二十四条及び第二十四条の二に規定する者以外の者 同法第二十五条の四第一項の規定により提供する同項に規定するオンライン資料
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(Reproduction for Collecting Internet Materials and Online Materials under the National Diet Library Act)
The Director General of the National Diet Library may record a work that is included in the internet materials set forth in Article 25-3, paragraph (1) of the National Diet Library Act…
国立国会図書館の館長は、国立国会図書館法（昭和二十三年法律第五号）第二十五条の三第一項の規定により同項に規定するインターネット資料（以下この条において「インターネット資料」という。）又は同法第二十五条の四第三項の規定により同項に規定するオンライン資料を収集するために必要と認められる限度において…
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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
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
internet materials
「インターネット資料」
In Article 43, internet materials (インターネット資料) as defined in Article 25-3, paragraph (1) of the National Diet Library Act: characters, images, sounds or programs recorded by electronic, magnetic or similar means that the organs of the national and local governments and the corporations listed in Articles 24 and 24-2 of that Act have made available to the public over the internet, or that have been made available through internet services they provide.
Short name set inArticle 43, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article