Act on Measures against Infringement of Rights, etc. Arising from the Distribution of Information through Specified Telecommunications
特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律
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A specified telecommunications service provider (特定電気通信役務提供者) that the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications has designated under Article 20, paragraph (1) as providing a large-scale specified telecommunications service (大規模特定電気通信役務); from Article 22 on, only one that has also filed the notification Article 21, paragraph (1) requires.
第二十条第一項の規定により指定された特定電気通信役務提供者
発信者
A person who records information on a recording medium of the specified telecommunications facilities (特定電気通信設備) a specified telecommunications service provider (特定電気通信役務提供者) uses, or inputs information into the transmission device of such facilities, where what is recorded or input is sent to unspecified persons.
特定電気通信役務提供者の用いる特定電気通信設備の記録媒体（当該記録媒体に記録された情報が不特定の者に送信されるものに限る。）に情報を記録し、又は当該特定電気通信設備の送信装置（当該送信装置に入力された情報が不特定の者に送信されるものに限る。）に情報を入力した者
Information that a person who claims their rights were infringed by information circulated through specified telecommunications (特定電気通信) says infringed those rights.
特定電気通信による情報の流通によって自己の権利を侵害されたとする者が当該権利を侵害したとする情報
An order under Article 8 by which a court, on the petition of a person who claims their rights were infringed by information circulated through specified telecommunications (特定電気通信), directs the disclosure related service provider (開示関係役務提供者) concerned to disclose sender identification information (発信者情報) on a demand under Article 5, paragraph (1) or (2).
第八条の規定による命令
Sending telecommunications (電気通信, as defined in the Telecommunications Business Act) meant to be received by unspecified persons, other than sending meant to be received directly by the public.
不特定の者によって受信されることを目的とする電気通信（電気通信事業法（昭和五十九年法律第八十六号）第二条第一号に規定する電気通信をいう。以下この号及び第五条第三項において同じ。）の送信（公衆によって直接受信されることを目的とする電気通信の送信を除く。）
A person or business that provides a specified telecommunications service (特定電気通信役務), that is, a telecommunications service provided using facilities used for specified telecommunications (特定電気通信).
特定電気通信役務を提供する者
The name, address and other information that helps identify the sender (発信者) of violating information (侵害情報), of the kinds a Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Order (総務省令) sets.
氏名、住所その他の侵害情報の発信者の特定に資する情報であって総務省令で定めるもの
開示関係役務提供者
A specified telecommunications service provider (特定電気通信役務提供者) from which disclosure of sender identification information (発信者情報) can be demanded under Article 5, paragraph (1), or a relevant telecommunications service provider (関連電気通信役務提供者) from which it can be demanded under paragraph (2) of that Article.
第五条第一項に規定する特定電気通信役務提供者及び同条第二項に規定する関連電気通信役務提供者
A court case on a petition for a sender identification information disclosure order (発信者情報開示命令).
発信者情報開示命令の申立てに係る事件
A measure that stops information circulated through specified telecommunications (特定電気通信) from being sent, such as measures for preventing transmission of violating information (侵害情報送信防止措置), including one that also stops providing the specified telecommunications service (特定電気通信役務) to the sender (発信者) of that information.
侵害情報送信防止措置その他の特定電気通信による情報の送信を防止する措置（当該情報の送信を防止するとともに、当該情報の発信者に対する特定電気通信役務の提供を停止する措置（第二十六条第二項第二号において「役務提供停止措置」という。）を含む。）
A telecommunications service (電気通信役務, as defined in Article 2, item (iii) of the Telecommunications Business Act) provided using specified telecommunications facilities (特定電気通信設備).
特定電気通信設備を用いて提供する電気通信役務（電気通信事業法第二条第三号に規定する電気通信役務をいう。第五条第二項において同じ。）
A measure that stops violating information (侵害情報) from being sent; from Article 20 on, only one taken within what is needed to stop it being sent to unspecified persons.
侵害情報の送信を防止する措置
In Article 15, an order the court hearing a case of a sender identification information disclosure order (発信者情報開示命令) may make under paragraph (1) at the petitioner's request, directing the disclosure related service provider (開示関係役務提供者) it is made against to give the petitioner the name and address of any other provider its sender identification information identifies (or say that it cannot), and, once the petitioner gives notice of having petitioned for a disclosure order against that other provider, to pass its sender identification information to that provider; where item (ii) coins the name, it refers there only to the first of these two parts.
Telecommunications facilities (電気通信設備, as defined in Article 2, item (ii) of the Telecommunications Business Act) used for specified telecommunications (特定電気通信).
特定電気通信の用に供される電気通信設備（電気通信事業法第二条第二号に規定する電気通信設備をいう。第五条第二項において同じ。）
In Article 5, paragraph (1) and Article 15, paragraph (2), sender identification information (発信者情報) that a Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Order (総務省令) sets as relating only to violation-related telecommunications (侵害関連通信); its disclosure can be demanded only where one of the cases in Article 5, paragraph (1), item (iii) applies as well as items (i) and (ii).
発信者情報であって専ら侵害関連通信に係るものとして総務省令で定めるもの
A specified telecommunications service (特定電気通信役務) for which the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications finds a particularly high need to speed up the handling of measures to stop violating information (侵害情報) being sent and to make the taking of such measures more transparent, and which meets every condition in Article 20, paragraph (1): its average monthly number of senders (平均月間発信者数) or average monthly total number of senders (平均月間延べ発信者数) is above the figure a Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Order (総務省令) sets for its kind of service, stopping violating information being sent is technically possible given the service's general nature, and it is not a service the Order sets as unlikely to lead to infringement of rights.
In Article 15, paragraphs (1) and (3), the name and address of another disclosure related service provider (開示関係役務提供者) involved in the violating information (侵害情報), other than one found to be its sender, where the provider the petition is against can identify them from the sender identification information (発信者情報) it holds that the petition concerns.
In Article 20 and Article 24, paragraph (2), for a specified telecommunications service (特定電気通信役務), the number of people who became senders (発信者) through the service in a month, leaving out those presumed to be outside Japan, together with those a Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Order (総務省令) sets as equivalent to them, averaged over a period that Order sets.
平均月間延べ発信者数
In Article 20 and Article 24, paragraph (2), for a specified telecommunications service (特定電気通信役務), the cumulative count (延べ数), in which the same person may be counted more than once, of those who became senders (発信者) through the service in a month, leaving out those presumed to be outside Japan, averaged over a period a Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Order (総務省令) sets.
In Article 24 and Article 25, paragraph (2), item (ii), a violating information investigation specialist (侵害情報調査専門員): a person with sufficient knowledge and experience in dealing with infringement of rights caused by information circulated through specified telecommunications (特定電気通信), whom a large-scale specified telecommunications service provider (大規模特定電気通信役務提供者) must appoint so that the investigations under Article 23 that need expert knowledge and experience are carried out properly.
The violating information (侵害情報) together with the right said to have been infringed and the reason given for saying it was infringed.
侵害情報、侵害されたとする権利及び権利が侵害されたとする理由
関係役務提供者
In Article 3, paragraph (1), the specified telecommunications service provider (特定電気通信役務提供者) using the specified telecommunications facilities (特定電気通信設備) used for the specified telecommunications (特定電気通信) through which information infringing another person's rights was circulated.
In Article 5, paragraphs (1) and (2), a transmission by telecommunications of an identification code (識別符号) — the letters, numbers, symbols or other code a specified telecommunications service provider (特定電気通信役務提供者) uses to tell those entitled to its service apart from others — or of another code, made by the sender (発信者) of violating information (侵害情報) to use, or to stop using, the service through which that information was sent, and of a kind that a Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Order (総務省令) sets as within what is needed to identify the sender.
侵害情報の発信者が当該侵害情報の送信に係る特定電気通信役務を利用し、又はその利用を終了するために行った当該特定電気通信役務に係る識別符号（特定電気通信役務提供者が特定電気通信役務の提供に際して当該特定電気通信役務の提供を受けることができる者を他の者と区別して識別するために用いる文字、番号、記号その他の符号をいう。）その他の符号の電気通信による送信であって、当該侵害情報の発信者を特定するために必要な範囲内であるものとして総務省令で定めるもの
申立人
In Article 15, paragraph (1), the person who filed the petition for the sender identification information disclosure order (発信者情報開示命令) concerned.
In Article 25, a person who has asked a large-scale specified telecommunications service provider (大規模特定電気通信役務提供者), by the method it has published under Article 22, paragraph (1), to take measures to stop violating information (侵害情報) from being sent.
In Article 27, paragraph (1), item (ii) and Article 28, paragraph (1), item (iii), a large-scale specified telecommunications service provider's (大規模特定電気通信役務提供者) telling the sender (発信者) of information whose sending it has stopped that it did so and why, or putting that where the sender can easily learn of it.
Sending, passing on or receiving signs, sounds or images by wire, radio or other electromagnetic means, as defined in Article 2(i) of the Telecommunications Business Act.
電気通信事業法（昭和五十九年法律第八十六号）第二条第一号に規定する電気通信
Machines, apparatus, lines and other electrical facilities for carrying out telecommunications (電気通信), as defined in the Telecommunications Business Act.
電気通信事業法第二条第二号に規定する電気通信設備
As defined in Article 2, item (iii) of the Telecommunications Business Act, carrying other people's communications using telecommunications facilities (電気通信設備), or otherwise making such facilities available for other people's communications.
電気通信事業法第二条第三号に規定する電気通信役務
役務提供停止措置
In Article 26, paragraph (2), item (ii), a measure that stops information from being sent and also stops providing the specified telecommunications service (特定電気通信役務) to the sender (発信者) of that information.
候補者等
In Article 4, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii), a candidate for public office, or a political party or other political organization that, under the Public Offices Election Act, has notified the returning officer of its candidates for a single-seat constituency of the House of Representatives (Article 86, paragraph (1) or (8)), or has filed a list of its candidates for the proportional representation seats of the House of Representatives (Article 86-2, paragraph (1)) or of the House of Councillors (Article 86-3, paragraph (1)).
公職の候補者又は候補者届出政党（公職選挙法（昭和二十五年法律第百号）第八十六条第一項又は第八項の規定による届出をした政党その他の政治団体をいう。）若しくは衆議院名簿届出政党等（同法第八十六条の二第一項の規定による届出をした政党その他の政治団体をいう。）若しくは参議院名簿届出政党等（同法第八十六条の三第一項の規定による届出をした政党その他の政治団体をいう。）
名誉侵害情報
In Article 4, information circulated through specified telecommunications (特定電気通信) and relating to documents and drawings used for election campaigning or for activities to keep someone from being elected (特定文書図画), which a candidate for public office, etc. (公職の候補者等) says damaged their reputation.
名誉侵害情報等
In Article 4, the defamatory information (名誉侵害情報) together with a statement that the reputation was damaged, the reason given for saying so, and a statement that the information relates to documents and drawings used for election campaigning or for activities to keep someone from being elected (特定文書図画).
In Article 4, a measure that stops defamatory information (名誉侵害情報) from being sent.
In Article 4, documents and drawings (文書図画) used for election campaigning or for activities to keep someone from being elected.
関連電気通信役務提供者
A person who provided a telecommunications service (電気通信役務) using telecommunications facilities (電気通信設備) used for the violation-related telecommunications (侵害関連通信) connected with the specified telecommunications (特定電気通信) concerned, other than the specified telecommunications service provider (特定電気通信役務提供者) of that specified telecommunications under Article 5, paragraph (1); from such a person, disclosure of sender identification information (発信者情報) can be demanded under Article 5, paragraph (2).
In Article 15, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii), a method using an electronic data processing system (電子情報処理組織) or other information and communications technology, of a kind a Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Order (総務省令) sets.
電子情報処理組織を使用する方法その他の情報通信の技術を利用する方法であって総務省令で定めるもの
In Article 16, a court's order, made on the petition of the person who petitioned for a sender identification information disclosure order (発信者情報開示命令) where needed to prevent the sender becoming impossible to identify, forbidding the disclosure related service provider (開示関係役務提供者) the petition is against to delete the sender identification information (発信者情報) concerned that it holds until the case ends, or, where an action under Article 14, paragraph (1) has been brought against the decision in that case, until that lawsuit ends.
被侵害者
In Article 23, a person who claims their rights were infringed by information circulated through specified telecommunications (特定電気通信) using a large-scale specified telecommunications service (大規模特定電気通信役務).
新法
In Article 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 27 of 2021, this Act as amended by Act No. 27 of 2021.
新法
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 25 of 2024, this Act as amended by Act No. 25 of 2024, the amendment that gave it its present title.
発信者の電子メールアドレス等
In Article 4, paragraph (1), item (ii), the sender's electronic mail address, etc. (電子メールアドレス等) as defined in Article 142-3, paragraph (3) of the Public Offices Election Act: their email address and other information needed to contact them over the internet or by similar means.
公職選挙法第百四十二条の三第三項に規定する電子メールアドレス等
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 10 of 2013, which amended the Public Offices Election Act, the earlier of two days: the day public notice is given of the date of the first general election of members of the House of Representatives announced on or after the day that Act comes into effect, and the day public notice is given of the date of the first ordinary election of members of the House of Councillors so announced.
新法
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 10 of 2013, the Public Offices Election Act as amended by that Act.
The date Act No. 10 of 2013, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
デジタル社会形成基本法施行日
In Article 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 25 of 2024, the day the provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the supplementary provisions of Act No. 63 of 2023 come into effect, that Act being the 2023 Act amending the law on forming a digital society (デジタル社会形成基本法) and other laws to promote regulatory reform for a digital society.
The day the 2022 Act amending the Penal Code and other laws (刑法等の一部を改正する法律, Act No. 67 of 2022) comes into effect.