The Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs must consult the Culture Council when fixing the following matters:

①A party that is dissatisfied with the amount of compensation fixed based on the provisions of Article 67, paragraph (1); Article 67-2, paragraph (5) or (6); Article 67-3, paragraph (1); Article 68, paragraph (1); or Article 69, paragraph (1), may bring an action to increase or decrease the amount of compensation, within a period of six months from the date on which the party learns that a compulsory license under any of these provisions (or a disposition denying the compulsory license referred to in Article 67, paragraph (1), in cases referred to in Article 67-2, paragraph (5) or (6)) has been issued.

②In an action referred to in the preceding paragraph, the copyright owner must be the defendant if the person bringing the action is the person exploiting the work, and the person exploiting the work must be the defendant if the person bringing the action is the copyright owner.

In a request for review concerning a disposition granting or denying the compulsory license referred to in Article 67, paragraph (1); Article 67-3, paragraph (1); Article 68, paragraph (1); or Article 69, paragraph (1), dissatisfaction with the amount of compensation subject to the disposition granting or denying that compulsory license may not be used as grounds for dissatisfaction with the disposition granting or denying the compulsory license; provided, however, that this does not apply if the person that was issued the disposition granting or denying the compulsory license referred to in Article 67, paragraph (1) or Article 67-3, paragraph (1) is unable to bring the action referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article because the copyright owner is unknown or for other similar reasons.

①In the following cases, a person that is required to pay the compensation referred to in Article 33, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) of that Article); Article 33-2, paragraph (2); Article 33-3, paragraph (2); Article 68, paragraph (1); or Article 69, paragraph (1) must deposit the compensation instead of paying it:

②If the copyright owner so requests, in cases referred to in item (iv) of the preceding paragraph, the person that is required to pay compensation must pay the sum that accords with the person's own calculations and deposit the difference between the sum that person calculates and the amount of compensation as per the compulsory license.

③A deposit of compensation under the provisions of Article 67, paragraph (1); Article 67-2, paragraph (5); Article 67-3, paragraph (1); or the preceding two paragraphs or a deposit of collateral under the provisions of Article 67-2, paragraph (1) is to be made at the deposit office nearest to the known domicile or residence of the copyright owner, if the copyright owner is domiciled or resides in Japan, or at the deposit office nearest to the domicile or residence of the depositor in any other case.

④A person that makes a deposit referred to in the preceding paragraph must promptly notify the copyright owner of that deposit; provided, however, that this does not apply if the copyright owner cannot be notified due to reasons such as the copyright owner being unknown.

①The author of an anonymous or pseudonymous work that has been made public, may have the author's true name registered to that work, regardless of whether the author currently owns the copyright.

②An author may have the registration referred to in the preceding paragraph made after the author's death by the person designated in the author's will.

③A person whose true name has been registered is presumed to be the author of the work to which the registration pertains.

①The copyright owner or the publisher of an anonymous or pseudonymous work may have the date of first publication or the date first made public registered for that work.

②A work whose date of first publication or date first made public is registered is presumed to have been first published or first made public on the registered date.

①The author of a work of computer programming may have the date of creation of the work registered; provided, however, that this does not apply after six months have passed since the creation of that work.

②A work of computer programming that has been registered as referred to in the preceding paragraph is presumed to have been created on the registered date.

The following particulars may not be asserted against a third party unless they are registered:

①The registrations referred to in Article 75, paragraph (1); Article 76, paragraph (1); Article 76-2, paragraph (1); and the preceding Article are made by the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, who enters or records them in the copyright register.

②The copyright register may be prepared in whole or in part using magnetic discs (this includes any object on which it is possible to reliably record a fixed set of data using equivalent means; the same applies in paragraph (4)), pursuant to Cabinet Order.

③Upon making a registration referred to in Article 75, paragraph (1), the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs must issue a public notice of this using the internet or by any other appropriate method.

④Any person may enter a request with the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs to be delivered a certified copy or a certified abstract of entries in the copyright register or a copy of its annexed documents, to inspect the register or its annexed documents, or to be delivered documents detailing information recorded in a portion of the copyright register that has been prepared using magnetic discs.

⑤A person entering a request referred to in the preceding paragraph must pay the fee that has been fixed by Cabinet Order in consideration of actual costs.

⑥The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply if the person that would be required to pay an application fee pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph is the national government.

⑦The provisions of Chapters II and III of the Administrative Procedure Act (Act No. 88 of 1993) do not apply to measures taken in connection with registrations referred to in paragraph (1).

⑧The provisions of the Act on Access to Administrative Organs' Information do not apply to the copyright register and its annexed documents.

⑨The provisions of Chapter V, Section 4 of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (Act No. 57 of 2003) do not apply to retained personal information (meaning the retained personal information prescribed in Article 60, paragraph (1) of that Act) that is recorded in the copyright register and its annexed documents.

⑩Beyond what is provided for in this Section, any necessary particulars connected with the registration referred to in paragraph (1) are provided by Cabinet Order.

Beyond what is provided for in this Section, the particulars of the registration of works of computer programming are as provided separately by law.