# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第百二十一条の二 (Article 121-2) - Law: 著作権法 (Copyright Act), 昭和四十五年法律第四十八号 - English title "Copyright Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百二十一条の二 (Article 121-2) — address `art-121-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-121-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-121-2 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百二十一条の二 art-121-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-121-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-121-2 **第一項** 次の各号に掲げる商業用レコード（当該商業用レコードの複製物（二以上の段階にわたる複製に係る複製物を含む。）を含む。）を商業用レコードとして複製し、その複製物を頒布し、その複製物を頒布の目的をもつて所持し、又はその複製物を頒布する旨の申出をした者（当該各号の原盤に音を最初に固定した日の属する年の翌年から起算して七十年を経過した後において当該複製、頒布、所持又は申出を行つた者を除く。）は、一年以下の拘禁刑若しくは百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。 art-121-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-121-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-121-2/par-1 A person that reproduces, as a commercial phonogram, a commercial phonogram as set forth in either of the following items (or a copy of such a commercial phonogram (this includes a copy that is two or more intervening reproductions removed from such a commercial phonogram)), distributes copies of a commercial phonogram so reproduced, possesses such copies for the purpose of distribution, or offers to distribute such copies (except for a person that engages in the relevant reproduction, distribution, possession, or offer after 70 years have passed, counting from the year after that in which the sound is first fixed into the master referred to in the relevant item) is subject to imprisonment for a term of up to one year, a fine of up to one million yen, or both: machine translation, not official **一** 国内において商業用レコードの製作を業とする者が、レコード製作者からそのレコード（第八条各号のいずれかに該当するものを除く。）の原盤の提供を受けて製作した商業用レコード art-121-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-121-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-121-2/par-1/item-1 a commercial phonogram that a person in the business of producing commercial phonograms in Japan produces from the master of a phonogram (other than a phonogram falling under one of the items of Article 8) that is made available by the producer of that phonogram; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 国外において商業用レコードの製作を業とする者が、実演家等保護条約の締約国の国民、世界貿易機関の加盟国の国民又はレコード保護条約の締約国の国民（当該締約国の法令に基づいて設立された法人及び当該締約国に主たる事務所を有する法人を含む。）であるレコード製作者からそのレコード（第八条各号のいずれかに該当するものを除く。）の原盤の提供を受けて製作した商業用レコード art-121-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-121-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-121-2/par-1/item-2 a commercial phonogram that a person in the business of producing commercial phonograms abroad produces from the master of a phonogram (other than a phonogram falling under one of the items of Article 8) that is made available by the producer of that phonogram that is the national of a Contracting State of the Convention for the Protection of Performers, etc., the national of a World Trade Organization Member State, or the national of a Contracting State of the Convention for the Protection of Phonograms (the nationals of a Contracting State include corporations established based on the laws and regulations of that State and corporations that have principal offices in that State). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-121-2/par-1/item-1: 第八条 → 著作権法 第八条 (Article 8), art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-8 - art-121-2/par-1/item-2: 第八条 → 著作権法 第八条 (Article 8), art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-8 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第八条第一項第六号（保護を受けるレコード） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-8/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-8/par-1/item-6 - 著作権法 第百二十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123/par-1 - 著作権法 第百二十四条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-124/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-124/par-1/item-2 - 著作権法 附則第六項（外国原盤商業用レコードの複製等についての経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/suppl-4061-112/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-4061-112/par-6 - 著作権法 附則第四条第一項（商業用レコードの複製物の頒布の申出についての経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/suppl-4211-53/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-4211-53/art-4/par-1 - 著作権法 附則第七条第三項（著作権法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/suppl-4281-108/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-4281-108/art-7/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 著作権法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/345AC0000000048/20260624_508AC0000000048), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Copyright Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4207/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch copyright-act-20261019T151240-010, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 著作権法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19