Article 37Reproduction for Persons with Visual and Vision-Related Impairments; Related Matters
第三十七条（視覚障害者等のための複製等）
It is permissible to reproduce in Braille a work that has been made public.
It is permissible to use a computerized Braille processing system to record a work that has been made public onto a recording medium or transmit to the public such a work (except in a broadcast or cablecast; however, it is permissible to make the work available for transmission, if it is to be transmitted to the public via automatic public transmission; the same applies in the following paragraph).
A person set forth by Cabinet Order that engages in an undertaking related to the welfare of persons for whom it is difficult to perceive visual renderings due to a visual or other impairment (hereinafter in this paragraph and in Article 102, paragraph (4) any such person is referred to as a "person with a visual or vision-related impairment") may reproduce a work that has been made public and that is made available or presented to the public in a rendered form that is perceived visually (including a work that has been made public and that is made available or presented to the public in a form that is perceived both visually and through other senses) (including a work other than the work in question which is reproduced therein or which is made available or presented to the public in a body united with the former work; hereinafter in this paragraph and in Article 102, paragraph (4) referred to as a "visual work"), and may transmit such a visual work to the public by changing texts in the visual work into sounds or in any other form that is necessary to allow the visual work to be used by persons with visual and vision-related impairments who have difficulty in using that visual work in its visual form, within the limits that are found to be necessary in order to provide the visual work for their exclusive use; provided, however, that this does not apply if the visual work has already been made available or presented to the public in such a form by the copyright owner, a person authorized thereby, a person in favor of whom the print rights set forth in Article 79 have been established, a person authorized thereby to reproduce the visual work, or a person authorized thereby to transmit the visual work to the public.
視覚障害その他の障害により視覚による表現の認識が困難な者（以下この項及び第百二条第四項において「視覚障害者等」という。）の福祉に関する事業を行う者で政令で定めるものは、公表された著作物であつて、視覚によりその表現が認識される方式（視覚及び他の知覚により認識される方式を含む。）により公衆に提供され、又は提示されているもの（当該著作物以外の著作物で、当該著作物において複製されているものその他当該著作物と一体として公衆に提供され、又は提示されているものを含む。以下この項及び同条第四項において「視覚著作物」という。）について、専ら視覚障害者等で当該方式によつては当該視覚著作物を利用することが困難な者の用に供するために必要と認められる限度において、当該視覚著作物に係る文字を音声にすることその他当該視覚障害者等が利用するために必要な方式により、複製し、又は公衆送信を行うことができる。ただし、当該視覚著作物について、著作権者又はその許諾を得た者若しくは第七十九条の出版権の設定を受けた者若しくはその複製許諾若しくは公衆送信許諾を得た者により、当該方式による公衆への提供又は提示が行われている場合は、この限りでない。
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