Supplementary Provisions, Article 4Transitional Measures for an Offer to Distribute Copies of a Commercial Phonogram
第四条（商業用レコードの複製物の頒布の申出についての経過措置）
The provisions of Article 121-2 of the new Act do not apply to the act of offering to distribute a commercial phonogram after this Act comes into effect if, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Copyright Act (Act No. 63 of 1991) or paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Copyright Act and the Act on Special Provisions of the Copyright Act, in Consequence of the Enforcement of the Universal Copyright Convention (Act No. 112 of 1994), the provisions of that Article are not to apply to its distribution or possession for the purpose of distribution.
新法第百二十一条の二の規定は、著作権法の一部を改正する法律（平成三年法律第六十三号）附則第五項又は著作権法及び万国著作権条約の実施に伴う著作権法の特例に関する法律の一部を改正する法律（平成六年法律第百十二号）附則第六項の規定によりその頒布又は頒布の目的をもってする所持について同条の規定を適用しないこととされる商業用レコードを頒布する旨の申出をする行為であって、この法律の施行後に行われるものについては、適用しない。
A person that reproduces, as a commercial phonogram, a commercial phonogram as set forth in either of the following items…
次の各号に掲げる商業用レコード（当該商業用レコードの複製物（二以上の段階にわたる複製に係る複製物を含む。）を含む。）を商業用レコードとして複製し、その複製物を頒布し、その複製物を頒布の目的をもつて所持し…
Open this provisioncommercial phonogram
「商業用レコード」
A copy of a phonogram (レコード) produced for sale on the market.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (vii)· applies throughout the law
distributioncorrected by this site
「頒布」
Transferring or renting copies to the public, whether for payment or free; for a cinematographic work, or a work reproduced in one, it also includes transferring or renting copies of the film for the purpose of showing those works to the public.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xix)· applies throughout the law
the new Act
「新法」
This Act as amended by Act No. 53 of 2009.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)