The duration of print rights is as stipulated in the act of establishment.
出版権の存続期間は、設定行為で定めるところによる。
Unless otherwise stipulated in the act of establishment, print rights expire on the day on which three years have elapsed following the first act of printing or public transmission is undertaken after the establishment of those rights.
出版権は、その存続期間につき設定行為に定めがないときは、その設定後最初の出版行為等があつた日から三年を経過した日において消滅する。
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act of printing or public transmission
「出版行為等」
In Article 83, paragraph (2) and Article 84, paragraph (3), an act of printing (出版行為) or an act of public transmission (公衆送信行為) of the work.
Short name set inArticle 80, paragraph (2)· applies only in this provision and in Article 83, paragraph (2); and Article 84, paragraph (3)