Supplementary Provisions, Article 7Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Copyright Act

①The provisions of Article 51, paragraph (2), Article 52, paragraph (1), Article 53, paragraph (1), Article 57, and Article 101, paragraph (2), items (i) and (ii) of the Copyright Act as amended by the provisions of Article 8 (referred to as the "New Copyright Act" in the following two paragraphs) apply to works, performances and phonograms in which copyright or neighboring rights under the Copyright Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 8 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Copyright Act" in this paragraph) exist on the day preceding the effective date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern works, performances and phonograms in which copyright or neighboring rights under the Former Copyright Act have expired on that day.

②The provisions of Article 116, paragraph (3) of the New Copyright Act apply where the day on which 50 years have passed, counting from the year following that in which the author or performer died, is on or after the effective date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern where that day is before the effective date.

③The provisions of Article 121-2 of the New Copyright Act do not apply to a commercial phonogram set out in the items of that Article (including copies of that commercial phonogram (including copies made through two or more stages of reproduction)) for which the day on which 50 years have passed, counting from the year following that in which sounds were first fixed on the master of each of those items, is before the effective date (including one for which the day of that fixation is on or before December 31, 1967).