Supplementary Provisions
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Supplementary Provisions, Article 1Effective Date
第一条（施行期日）
This Act comes into effect on January 1, 2005.
この法律は、平成十七年一月一日から施行する。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Transitional Measures for the Importation of Commercial Phonograms
第二条（商業用レコードの輸入等についての経過措置）
The provisions of Article 113, paragraph (5) of the post-amendment Copyright Act do not apply to a commercial phonogram for foreign distribution provided for in that paragraph which is imported before this Act comes into effect and which a person possesses for the purpose of distribution at the time this Act comes into effect.
改正後の著作権法第百十三条第五項の規定は、この法律の施行前に輸入され、この法律の施行の際現に頒布の目的をもって所持されている同項に規定する国外頒布目的商業用レコードについては、適用しない。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 3
第三条
In the application of the provisions of Article 113, paragraph (5) of the post-amendment Copyright Act to a commercial phonogram for domestic distribution provided for in that paragraph which has been published as of the time this Act comes into effect, in the proviso to that paragraph, the phrase "day on which that phonogram is first published in Japan" is deemed to be replaced with "effective date of the Act Partially Amending the Copyright Act (Act No. 92 of 2004), if that commercial phonogram for domestic distribution has been published as of the day on which it comes into effect", and the phrase "that has passed beyond" is deemed to be replaced with "after it has passed beyond".
改正後の著作権法第百十三条第五項に規定する国内頒布目的商業用レコードであってこの法律の施行の際現に発行されているものに対する同項の規定の適用については、同項ただし書中「国内において最初に発行された日」とあるのは「当該国内頒布目的商業用レコードが著作権法の一部を改正する法律（平成十六年法律第九十二号）の施行の際現に発行されているものである場合において、当該施行の日」と、「経過した」とあるのは「経過した後、当該」とする。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 4Transitional Measures for the Renting Out of Books
第四条（書籍等の貸与についての経過措置）
The provisions of Article 4-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the pre-amendment Copyright Act remain in force even after this Act comes into effect, with respect to the renting out of books or magazines (excluding those consisting mainly of sheet music) that a person possesses for the purpose of renting them out to the public as of the first day of the month two months after the month that includes the day of promulgation of this Act.