Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Transitional Measures for the Term of Protection for Cinematographic Works
第二条（映画の著作物の保護期間についての経過措置）
The provisions of Article 54, paragraph (1) of the post-amendment Copyright Act (referred to as "the new Act" in the following Article) apply to a cinematographic work for which a copyright under the pre-amendment Copyright Act exists at the time this Act comes into effect; and prior laws continue to govern a cinematographic work for which the copyright under the pre-amendment Copyright Act has expired as of the time this Act comes into effect.
(The Term of Protection for Cinematographic Works)
The copyright to a cinematographic work subsists for 70 years after the work is made public (or for 70 years after the creation of the work, if the work is not made public within the 70 years after…
映画の著作物の著作権は、その著作物の公表後七十年（その著作物がその創作後七十年以内に公表されなかつたときは、その創作後七十年）を経過するまでの間、存続する。
Open this provisionNotwithstanding the provisions of Article 54, paragraph (1) of the new Act, if the day on which the duration of copyright expires under the former Copyright Act (Act No. 39 of 1899) is after the day…
著作権法の施行前に創作された映画の著作物であって、同法附則第七条の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされるものの著作権の存続期間は、旧著作権法（明治三十二年法律第三十九号）による著作権の存続期間の満了する日が新法第五十四条第一項の規定による期間の満了する日後の日であるときは、同項の規定にかかわらず…
Open this provisioncinematographic work
「映画の著作物」
A cinematographic work, including a work expressed in a way that produces visual or audiovisual effects similar to those of a film and fixed in some medium.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (3)· applies throughout the law
copyright
「著作権」
The economic rights of an author set out in Articles 21 to 28: the rights of reproduction, stage and musical performance, on-screen presentation, public transmission, recitation, exhibition, distribution, transfer of ownership, rental, translation and adaptation, and the original author's rights over the use of derivative works.
Short name set inArticle 17, paragraph (1)
the new Act
「新法」
In Articles 2 and 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 85 of 2003, this Act as amended by that Act.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Supplementary Provisions, Article 3