Supplementary Provisions
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This Act comes into effect on January 1, 2000;provided, however, that the provisions that add two items after Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xix); the provisions amending Article 30, paragraph (1); the provisions amending Article 113; the provisions amending Article 119; the provisions that add an Article after Article 120; the provisions amending Article 123, paragraph (1); the provisions amending Article 5-2 of the Supplementary Provisions (Act No. 49 of 1970); and the provisions of paragraph (5) of these Supplementary Provisions come into effect on October 1, 1999.
この法律は、平成十二年一月一日から施行する。ただし、第二条第一項第十九号の次に二号を加える改正規定、第三十条第一項の改正規定、第百十三条の改正規定、第百十九条の改正規定、第百二十条の次に一条を加える改正規定、第百二十三条第一項の改正規定及び附則第五条の二の改正規定並びに附則第五項の規定は、平成十一年十月一日から施行する。
The provisions of Article 26-2, paragraph (1); Article 95-2, paragraph (1); and Article 97-2, paragraph (1) of the post-amendment Copyright Act do not apply in a case that involves the transfer of the original or a copy of a work, a sound or visual recording of a performance, or a copy of a phonogram, any of which exists as of the time this Act comes into effect (but only one made without prejudice to the rights of the person who owns the right set forth in Article 21, Article 91, paragraph (1) or Article 96 of the Copyright Act; excluding copies made by the owner of print rights).
改正後の著作権法第二十六条の二第一項、第九十五条の二第一項及び第九十七条の二第一項の規定は、この法律の施行の際現に存する著作物の原作品若しくは複製物、実演の録音物若しくは録画物又はレコードの複製物（著作権法第二十一条、第九十一条第一項又は第九十六条に規定する権利を有する者の権利を害さずに作成されたものに限り、出版権者が作成した著作物の複製物を除く。）の譲渡による場合には、適用しない。
The provisions of Article 26-2, paragraph (1) of the post-amendment Copyright Act do not apply to the distribution, by a person that holds a print right established before this Act comes into effect and in existence at the time this Act comes into effect, of copies of the work that is subject to that print right, during the duration of the print right.
改正後の著作権法第二十六条の二第一項の規定は、この法律の施行前に設定された出版権でこの法律の施行の際現に存するものを有する者が当該出版権の存続期間中に行う当該出版権の目的となっている著作物の複製物の頒布については、適用しない。
Prior laws continue to govern the distribution, after the expiration of a print right (limited to one established before this Act comes into effect) by a person that formerly held that print right, of copies of a work made during the duration of that print right.
During the period from October 1, 1999, to the day before that on which this Act comes into effect, the phrases "Article 95-3, paragraph (3)" and "Article 97-3, paragraph (3)" in Article 113, paragraph (4) of the post-amendment Copyright Act are deemed to be replaced with "Article 95-2, paragraph (3)" and "Article 97-2, paragraph (3)", respectively.
平成十一年十月一日からこの法律の施行の日の前日までの間は、改正後の著作権法第百十三条第四項中「第九十五条の三第三項」とあるのは「第九十五条の二第三項」と、「第九十七条の三第三項」とあるのは「第九十七条の二第三項」とする。
If the effective date of the Act to Adjust Related Acts to Coordinate with the Coming into Effect of the Act on Access to Information Held by Administrative Organs (Act No. 43 of 1999; hereinafter referred to as "the adjustment Act") falls after the date on which this Act comes into effect, in Article 47-3 of the post-amendment Copyright Act the phrase "Article 42, Article 42-2" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 42" and the phrase "Article 42 or 42-2" is deemed to be replaced with "or Article 42", until the day before the effective date of the adjustment Act.
Prior laws continue to govern the applicability of penal provisions to an action that a person undertakes before this Act comes into effect and to an action that a person undertakes after this Act comes into effect but that prior laws continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions.
この法律の施行前にした行為及び附則第四項の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。