Article 104-2Exercise of the Right to Receive Compensation for Private Sound and Visual Recordings
第百四条の二（私的録音録画補償金を受ける権利の行使）
If an association is in existence that has as its purpose the exercise of rights on behalf of persons that own the right to receive the compensation referred to in Article 30, paragraph (3) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the provisions of Article 102, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter in this Section) (hereinafter in this Section referred to as "compensation for private sound and visual recording") (hereinafter in the following paragraph and item (iv) of the following Article that persons are referred to as "right holders"), whose consent has been obtained and which the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs has designated as the only association in the country for the relevant category of compensation for private sound and visual recording among those set forth in the following, the right to receive compensation for private sound and visual recording may be exercised exclusively through the designated association (hereinafter in this Section referred to as the "designated association"):
compensation for private sound and visual recording in connection with sound recording conducted for the purpose of private use (excluding sound recording conducted exclusively together with visual recording; hereinafter referred to as "private sound recording" in item (ii), (a) of the following Article and in Article 104-4);
compensation for private sound and visual recording in connection with visual recording conducted for the purpose of private use (including visual recording conducted exclusively together with sound recording; hereinafter referred to as "private visual recording" in item (ii), (b) of the following Article and in Article 104-4).
A designated association has the authority to act in and out of court on behalf of a right holder, in its own name, in connection with the right to receive compensation for private sound and visual recording.
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