For a work (except computer programming) that an employee of a corporation or other employers (hereinafter in this Article such a corporation or other employers are referred to as a "corporation, etc.") makes in the course of duty at the initiative of the corporation, etc., and that the corporation, etc. makes public as a work of its own authorship, the author is the corporation, etc., so long as it is not stipulated otherwise in a contract, in employment rules, or elsewhere at the time the work is made.
For a work of computer programming that an employee of a corporation, etc. makes at the initiative of the corporation, etc. in the course of duty, the author is the corporation, etc., so long as it is not stipulated otherwise in a contract, in employment rules, or elsewhere at the time the work is made.
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(Authorship of a Work Made in the Course of Duty)
For a work (except computer programming) that an employee of a corporation or other employers (hereinafter in this Article such a corporation or other employers are referred to as a "corporation…
法人その他使用者（以下この条において「法人等」という。）の発意に基づきその法人等の業務に従事する者が職務上作成する著作物（プログラムの著作物を除く。）で、その法人等が自己の著作の名義の下に公表するものの著作者は、その作成の時における契約、勤務規則その他に別段の定めがない限り、その法人等とする。
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「著作物」
A creative expression of thoughts or feelings falling within the literary, academic, artistic or musical domain — a work in the narrow sense, as distinct from 著作物等 (works, performances, phonograms, broadcasts and cablecasts), which the Ministry's English also calls 'work'.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
author
「著作者」
The person who creates a work (著作物).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)· 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
corporation
「法人」
A corporation, including an association or foundation without legal personality that has a designated representative or manager.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (6)· applies throughout the law
corporation, etc.
「法人等」
In Article 15, a corporation or other employer.
Short name set inArticle 15, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article