Supplementary Provisions

①This Act comes into effect on the date fixed by Cabinet Order within one year of the day following that on which the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization comes into force with respect to Japan.

②In the application of the provisions of the Copyright Act that concern neighboring rights (including the provisions of Article 95-3, paragraphs (3) and (4)) to a performance set forth in the following that is also set forth in Article 7, item (iv) of the Copyright Act as amended under the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as "the new Act") (other than a performance that also falls under a category set forth in item (i) through item (iii) of that Article), and in the application of such provisions to a performance set forth in the following that is also set forth in Article 7, item (v) of the new Act, the provisions of paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Copyright Act (Act No. 64 of 1986); paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Copyright Act (Act No. 43 of 1989; hereinafter referred to as "the Amending Act of 1989"); and paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Copyright Act (Act No. 63 of 1991; referred to as "the Amending Act of 1991" in paragraph (4) of these Supplementary Provisions) do not apply:

③In the application of the provisions of the Copyright Act that concern neighboring rights (including the provisions of Article 95-3, paragraphs (3) and (4)) to a performer involved in a performance set forth in one of the items of the preceding paragraph, who is a foreign national without a habitual residence in Japan at the time the performance takes place, the provisions of paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Amending Act of 1989 do not apply.

④In the application of the provisions of the Copyright Act that concern neighboring rights (including the provisions of Article 97-3, paragraphs (3) through (5)) to the following phonograms, the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Amending Act of 1989, and paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Amending Act of 1991 do not apply:

⑤In the application of the provisions of the Copyright Act that concern neighboring rights, to a broadcast set forth in the following that is also set forth in Article 9, item (iii) of the new Act, the provisions of paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Amending Act of 1989 do not apply:

⑥The provisions of the Article 121-2 of the new Act do not apply to the reproduction, as a commercial phonogram, of a commercial phonogram (or of a copy of a commercial phonogram (this includes a copy that is two or more intervening reproductions removed from the commercial phonogram)) that a person in the business of producing commercial phonograms in a place outside the jurisdiction of the Copyright Act produces from the master of a phonogram (other than a phonogram falling under one of the items of Article 8 of the new Act) that is made available by the producer of that phonogram that is the national of a World Trade Organization Member State (other than one that is also the national of a Contracting State of the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations or of the Convention for the Protection of Phonograms (the nationals of these Contracting States include corporations established based on the laws and regulations of these States and corporations that have principal offices in these States)), for which the day that marks the passage of 20 years counting from the year following the year in which the sounds are first fixed into the master is before the enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Copyright Act (Act No. 87 of 1988), if that reproduction takes place after this Act comes into effect; nor do the provisions of the Article 121-2 of the new Act apply to the distribution of the copies of such a reproduced commercial phonogram as a commercial phonogram, or the possession of such copies for the purpose of distribution as a commercial phonogram, if the distribution or possession takes place after this Act comes into effect.