A person falling under one of the following items is subject to imprisonment for a term of up to three years, a fine of up to three million yen, or both:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、三年以下の拘禁刑若しくは三百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
a person that transfers or rents to the public a device with a function that circumvents technological protection measures or technological exploitation restriction measures (including an easily assembled set of parts for such a device) or copies of a computer program with a function that circumvents technological protection measures or technological exploitation restriction measures; manufactures, imports, or possesses such a device or copies of such a computer program for the purpose of transferring or renting them to the public; or offers such a device or copies of such a computer program for public use; or a person that transmits that computer program to the public or makes it available for transmission (if the device or program has functions other than such circumvention functions, this is limited to if the device or program is used to enable the infringement of a Copyright-related matters through the circumvention of technological protection measures or to enable acts deemed to constitute the infringements of a copyright, print rights, or the neighboring rights prescribed in the provisions of Article 113, paragraph (6) through the circumvention of technological exploitation restriction measures);
技術的保護手段の回避若しくは技術的利用制限手段の回避を行うことをその機能とする装置（当該装置の部品一式であつて容易に組み立てることができるものを含む。）若しくは技術的保護手段の回避若しくは技術的利用制限手段の回避を行うことをその機能とするプログラムの複製物を公衆に譲渡し、若しくは貸与し、公衆への譲渡若しくは貸与の目的をもつて製造し、輸入し、若しくは所持し、若しくは公衆の使用に供し、又は当該プログラムを公衆送信し、若しくは送信可能化する行為（当該装置又は当該プログラムが当該機能以外の機能を併せて有する場合にあつては、著作権等を侵害する行為を技術的保護手段の回避により可能とし、又は第百十三条第六項の規定により著作権、出版権若しくは著作隣接権を侵害する行為とみなされる行為を技術的利用制限手段の回避により可能とする用途に供するために行うものに限る。）をした者
a person that, in the course of trade, circumvents technological protection measures or technological exploitation restriction measures at the request of the public;
業として公衆からの求めに応じて技術的保護手段の回避又は技術的利用制限手段の回避を行つた者
a person that engages in an action that is deemed to constitute infringement of a copyright, print right or neighboring rights pursuant to the provisions of Article 113, paragraph (2);
a person that engages in an action that is deemed to constitute infringement of a copyright, etc. relevant to the technological protection measures or a copyright, print right or neighboring rights relevant to the technological exploitation restriction measures pursuant to the provisions of Article 113, paragraph (7);
a person that, for commercial purposes, engages in an action that is deemed to constitute infringement of an author's moral rights, a copyright, a print right, a performer's moral rights, or neighboring rights pursuant to the provisions of Article 113, paragraph (8);
a person that, for commercial purposes, engages in an action that is deemed to constitute an infringement of a copyright or neighboring rights pursuant to the provisions of Article 113, paragraph (10).
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(Acts Deemed to Constitute Infringement)
If the owner of a copyright or neighboring rights that personally publishes or allows another person to publish a commercial phonogram intended for distribution in Japan…
国内において頒布することを目的とする商業用レコード（以下この項において「国内頒布目的商業用レコード」という。）を自ら発行し、又は他の者に発行させている著作権者又は著作隣接権者が、当該国内頒布目的商業用レコードと同一の商業用レコードであつて…
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The facilitation of the exploitation of an infringing work (meaning a work that has been made available for transmission by infringing a copyright (excluding the rights provided in Article 28…
送信元識別符号又は送信元識別符号以外の符号その他の情報であつてその提供が送信元識別符号の提供と同一若しくは類似の効果を有するもの（以下この項及び次項において「送信元識別符号等」という。）の提供により侵害著作物等（著作権（第二十八条に規定する権利（翻訳以外の方法により創作された二次的著作物に係るものに限る。）を除く。以…
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The circumvention of technological exploitation restriction measures (meaning making it possible to view or listen to a work that technological exploitation restriction measures have been used to…
技術的利用制限手段の回避（技術的利用制限手段により制限されている著作物等の視聴を当該技術的利用制限手段の効果を妨げることにより可能とすること（著作権者等の意思に基づいて行われる場合を除く。）をいう。次項並びに第百二十条の二第一号及び第二号において同じ。）を行う行為は…
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An act of transferring or renting to the public a command code (meaning a command to a computer by which alone a single result can be obtained) with a function that circumvents technological…
技術的保護手段の回避又は技術的利用制限手段の回避を行うことをその機能とする指令符号（電子計算機に対する指令であつて、当該指令のみによつて一の結果を得ることができるものをいう。）を公衆に譲渡し、若しくは貸与し、公衆への譲渡若しくは貸与の目的をもつて製造し、輸入し、若しくは所持し、若しくは公衆の使用に供し、又は公衆送信し…
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The following acts are deemed to constitute infringement of the moral rights of the author, the copyright, the print right, the moral rights of the performer…
次に掲げる行為は、当該権利管理情報に係る著作者人格権、著作権、出版権、実演家人格権又は著作隣接権を侵害する行為とみなす。
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「公衆送信」
Transmitting by radio or wire communication so that the public receives it directly, other than transmitting by telecommunications equipment whose parts are all within the same premises (or, where several occupy the premises, within the area one occupies), unless what is sent is a computer program work.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (vii-2)· applies throughout the law
available for transmission
「送信可能化」
Making something capable of being sent by automatic public transmission (自動公衆送信), either by recording or inputting information into an automatic public transmission server connected to a telecommunications network used by the public (or adding or converting a recording medium to serve as that server's), or by connecting to such a network a server that already holds or receives the information.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ix-5)· applies throughout the law
computer program
「プログラム」
Instructions to a computer, combined and expressed so that they make it work to produce a particular result.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (x-2)· applies throughout the law
technological protection measures
「技術的保護手段」
A means using electronic, magnetic or other means people cannot perceive (電磁的方法) to prevent or deter infringement of the moral rights of authors, copyright, print rights, the moral rights of performers or neighbouring rights (other than one used against the will of the right holders), working by recording on a medium or transmitting a signal to which the equipment used reacts in a particular way, or by converting a work's or performance's sounds or images so that the equipment needs a particular conversion.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xx)· applies throughout the law
copyright-related matters
「著作権等」
In Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xx), Article 30, paragraph (1), item (ii), Article 113, paragraph (7) and Article 120-2, items (i) and (iv), the moral rights of authors (著作者人格権), copyright, print rights (出版権), the moral rights of performers (実演家人格権) and neighbouring rights (著作隣接権).
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xx)· applies only in this item and in Article 30, paragraph (1), item (ii); Article 113, paragraph (7); and Article 120-2, paragraph (1), items (i) and (iv)
technological exploitation restriction measures
「技術的利用制限手段」
A means using electronic, magnetic or other means people cannot perceive (電磁的方法) to restrict the viewing or listening of a work, performance, phonogram, broadcast or cablecast (for a computer program work, including running it), other than one used against the will of the copyright owner, etc., working by recording on a medium or transmitting a signal to which the equipment used reacts in a particular way, or by converting their sounds or images so that the equipment needs a particular conversion.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxi)· applies throughout the law
the public
「公衆」
The public, including a large number of specific persons and not only people at large.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (5)· applies throughout the law
renting out
「貸与」
Renting out, including any act, whatever it is called and however it is done, that gives another person a right to use something in the same way.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (8)· 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)
moral rights of an author
「著作者人格権」
The moral rights of an author: the right to make the work public (公表権, Article 18, paragraph (1)), the right of attribution (氏名表示権, Article 19, paragraph (1)) and the right to integrity (同一性保持権, Article 20, paragraph (1)).
Short name set inArticle 17, paragraph (1)
circumvention of technological protection measuresmachine translation
「技術的保護手段の回避」
In Article 30, paragraph (1), item (ii), Article 113, paragraph (7) and Article 120-2, items (i) and (ii), removing or altering the signal of a technological protection measure (技術的保護手段) or otherwise interfering with its effect (except as a technical side effect of converting a recording or transmission format), or restoring sounds or images converted to need a particular conversion, so that an act the measure prevents becomes possible or an act it deters no longer meets an obstacle, unless done in line with the will of the right holders.
Defined inArticle 30, paragraph (1), item (ii)· applies only in this provision and in Article 113, paragraph (7); and Article 120-2, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii)
moral rights of performers
「実演家人格権」
The moral rights of a performer: the right of attribution (氏名表示権) in Article 90-2, paragraph (1) and the right to integrity (同一性保持権) in Article 90-3, paragraph (1).
Short name set inArticle 89, paragraph (1)
fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.