Once a commercial phonogram has been sold for the first time in Japan and three years have elapsed since the date of its first sale, a person seeking to make a sound recording of a musical work whose sound has been recorded onto that phonogram with the authorization of the copyright owner and to thereby produce a different commercial phonogram may, if all of the following items are satisfied, make such a sound recording or make such a commercial phonogram available to the public through its transfer pursuant to a compulsory license by the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs and after paying compensation to the copyright owner in the amount that has been fixed by the Commissioner as equivalent to the ordinary rate of royalties.
the person has requested the copyright owner to agree to authorize that person to make such a sound recording or to make such a commercial phonogram available to the public through its transfer, but an agreement cannot be reached or deliberations about this cannot be entered into;
it is not clear that the author intends to discontinue the sound recording or other exploitation of that musical work.
The provisions of paragraphs (3) and (4) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the compulsory license referred to in the preceding paragraph.
著作物の放送等
文化庁長官は、第一項の裁定の申請があつたときは、その旨を当該申請に係る著作権者に通知し、相当の期間を指定して、意見を述べる機会を与えなければならない。
著作物の放送等
第六十七条第四項、第六項及び第七項の規定は、第一項の裁定について準用する。この場合において、同条第七項中「申請者」とあるのは「申請者及び著作権者」と、同項第一号中「第五項各号に掲げる事項」とあるのは「その旨」と読み替えるものとする。
商業用レコードへの録音等
商業用レコードが最初に国内において販売され、かつ、その最初の販売の日から三年を経過した場合において、当該商業用レコードに著作権者の許諾を得て録音されている音楽の著作物を録音して他の商業用レコードを製作しようとする者は、次の各号のいずれにも該当するときは、文化庁長官の裁定を受け、かつ…