Supplementary Provisions
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This Act comes into effect as of the day on which the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations comes into force with respect to Japan.
Provisions of the post-amendment Copyright Act (hereinafter referred to as "the new Act") that concern neighboring rights (including the provisions of Articles 95 and 97) do not apply to the following:
改正後の著作権法（以下「新法」という。）中著作隣接権に関する規定（第九十五条及び第九十七条の規定を含む。）は、次に掲げるものについては、適用しない。
a performance as set forth in Article 7, item (v) of the new Act, which takes place before this Act comes into effect;
a phonogram as set forth in Article 8, item (iii) of the new Act, in which sounds are first fixed before this Act comes into effect, and which is other than as provided in the following paragraph;
a broadcast as set forth in Article 9, item (iii) of the new Act, which takes place before this Act comes into effect.
Prior laws continue to govern a phonogram as set forth in Article 8, item (iii) of the new Act in which sounds have been first fixed before this Act comes into effect and which Japan is under the obligation to protect pursuant to the Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms.
Provisions of the Copyright Act that concern neighboring rights (including the provisions of Article 95 and Article 95-3, paragraphs (3) and (4)) do not apply to a performer involved in a performance that takes place before this Act comes into effect, who is a foreign national without a habitual residence in Japan at the time the performance takes place; provided, however, that this does not apply to a performer involved in a performance that takes place before the Copyright Act comes into effect and for which a copyright under the former Copyright Act (Act No. 39 of 1899) exists at the time the Copyright Act comes into effect.