# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第百二十三条 (Article 123) - 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: 第百二十三条 (Article 123) — address `art-123` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百二十三条 art-123 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123 **第一項** 第百十九条第一項から第三項まで、第百二十条の二第三号から第六号まで、第百二十一条の二及び前条第一項の罪は、告訴がなければ公訴を提起することができない。 art-123/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123/par-1 Prosecution may not be instituted for the offence referred to in Article 119, paragraphs (1) through (3); Article 120-2, items (iii) through (vi); Article 121-2; and paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, unless an accusation is filed by the injured party. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、次に掲げる行為の対価として財産上の利益を受ける目的又は有償著作物等の提供若しくは提示により著作権者等の得ることが見込まれる利益を害する目的で、次の各号のいずれかに掲げる行為を行うことにより犯した第百十九条第一項の罪については、適用しない。 art-123/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to an offence as referred to in Article 119, paragraph (1) that a person commits by undertaking one of the acts set forth in the following items, either for the purpose of gaining a financial benefit in consideration of the act set forth therein or for the purpose of damaging the profit that the copyright owner, etc. is expected to gain by making available or presenting a fee-based work: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 有償著作物等について、原作のまま複製された複製物を公衆に譲渡し、又は原作のまま公衆送信（自動公衆送信の場合にあつては、送信可能化を含む。次号において同じ。）を行うこと（当該有償著作物等の種類及び用途、当該譲渡の部数、当該譲渡又は公衆送信の態様その他の事情に照らして、当該有償著作物等の提供又は提示により著作権者等の得ることが見込まれる利益が不当に害されることとなる場合に限る。）。 art-123/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123/par-2/item-1 transferring copies of an unaltered original fee-based work to the public or transmitting an unaltered original fee-based work to the public (including making that work available for transmission, if it is to be transmitted to the public via automatic public transmission; the same applies in the following item) (but only if the profit that the copyright owner, etc. is expected to gain by making available or presenting that fee-based work would be unreasonably damaged in light of the nature or purpose of the fee-based work, the number of copies that would be transferred, the circumstances of the transfer or public transmission, or any other conditions); or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 有償著作物等について、原作のまま複製された複製物を公衆に譲渡し、又は原作のまま公衆送信を行うために、当該有償著作物等を複製すること（当該有償著作物等の種類及び用途、当該複製の部数及び態様その他の事情に照らして、当該有償著作物等の提供又は提示により著作権者等の得ることが見込まれる利益が不当に害されることとなる場合に限る。）。 art-123/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123/par-2/item-2 reproducing a fee-based work for the purpose of transferring copies of the unaltered original fee-based work to the public or of transmitting the unaltered original fee-based work to the public (but only if the profit that the copyright owner, etc. is expected to gain by making available or presenting its fee-based work would be unreasonably damaged in light of the nature or purpose of the fee-based work, the number of copies that would be reproduced, the circumstances of its reproduction, or any other conditions). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項に規定する有償著作物等とは、著作物又は実演等（著作権、出版権又は著作隣接権の目的となつているものに限る。）であつて、有償で公衆に提供され、又は提示されているもの（その提供又は提示が著作権、出版権又は著作隣接権を侵害するもの（国外で行われた提供又は提示にあつては、国内で行われたとしたならばこれらの権利の侵害となるべきもの）を除く。）をいう。 art-123/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123/par-3 The fee-based work provided for in the preceding paragraph means a work or performance, etc. (limited to one that is the subject of a copyright, print rights, or neighboring rights) made available or presented to the public for value (other than through an action that infringes copyrights, print rights or neighboring rights (for a work made available or presented abroad, this means an action would constitute copyright infringement if it took place in Japan)). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 無名又は変名の著作物の発行者は、その著作物に係る第一項に規定する罪について告訴をすることができる。ただし、第百十八条第一項ただし書に規定する場合及び当該告訴が著作者の明示した意思に反する場合は、この限りでない。 art-123/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123/par-4 The publisher of an anonymous or a pseudonymous work may file an accusation in connection with an offense referred to in paragraph (1) involving such a work; provided, however, that this does not apply in cases specified in the proviso to Article 118, paragraph (1), or if the accusation is contrary to the express will of the author. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-123/par-1: 第百十九条第一項から第三項まで → 著作権法 第百十九条第一項 (Article 119, paragraph (1)), art-119/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-119/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-119/par-1 - art-123/par-1: 第百十九条第一項から第三項まで → 著作権法 第百十九条第二項 (Article 119, paragraph (2)), art-119/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-119/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-119/par-2 - art-123/par-1: 第百十九条第一項から第三項まで → 著作権法 第百十九条第三項 (Article 119, paragraph (3)), art-119/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-119/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-119/par-3 - art-123/par-1: 第百二十条の二第三号から第六号まで → 著作権法 第百二十条の二第一項第三号 (Article 120-2, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-120-2/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-120-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-120-2/par-1/item-3 - art-123/par-1: 第百二十条の二第三号から第六号まで → 著作権法 第百二十条の二第一項第四号 (Article 120-2, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-120-2/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-120-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-120-2/par-1/item-4 - art-123/par-1: 第百二十条の二第三号から第六号まで → 著作権法 第百二十条の二第一項第五号 (Article 120-2, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-120-2/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-120-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-120-2/par-1/item-5 - art-123/par-1: 第百二十条の二第三号から第六号まで → 著作権法 第百二十条の二第一項第六号 (Article 120-2, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-120-2/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-120-2/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-120-2/par-1/item-6 - art-123/par-1: 第百二十一条の二 → 著作権法 第百二十一条の二 (Article 121-2), art-121-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-121-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-121-2 - art-123/par-1: 前条第一項 → 著作権法 第百二十二条の三第一項 (Article 122-3, paragraph (1)), art-122-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-122-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-122-3/par-1 - art-123/par-2: 前項 → 著作権法 第百二十三条第一項 (Article 123, paragraph (1)), art-123/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123/par-1 - art-123/par-2: 第百十九条第一項 → 著作権法 第百十九条第一項 (Article 119, paragraph (1)), art-119/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-119/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-119/par-1 - art-123/par-2/item-1: 次号 → 著作権法 第百二十三条第二項第二号 (Article 123, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-123/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123/par-2/item-2 - art-123/par-3: 前項 → 著作権法 第百二十三条第二項 (Article 123, paragraph (2)), art-123/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123/par-2 - art-123/par-4: 第一項 → 著作権法 第百二十三条第一項 (Article 123, paragraph (1)), art-123/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123/par-1 - art-123/par-4: 第百十八条第一項 → 著作権法 第百十八条第一項 (Article 118, paragraph (1)), art-118/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-118/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第百二十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123/par-2 - 著作権法 第百二十三条第二項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123/par-2/item-1 - 著作権法 第百二十三条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123/par-3 - 著作権法 第百二十三条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-123/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-123/par-4 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 210 — 著作権法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19