# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第二十六条の三 (Article 26-3) - 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: 第二十六条の三 (Article 26-3)（貸与権） — address `art-26-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-26-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-26-3 - 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. --- ### 第二十六条の三（貸与権） — (Right to Rent Out) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-26-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-26-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-26-3 **第一項** 著作者は、その著作物（映画の著作物を除く。）をその複製物（映画の著作物において複製されている著作物にあつては、当該映画の著作物の複製物を除く。）の貸与により公衆に提供する権利を専有する。 art-26-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-26-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-26-3/par-1 The author of a work (except a cinematographic work) has the exclusive right to make that work available to the public by renting out copies of the work (if the work is one that has been reproduced in a cinematographic work, this excludes making that work available to the public by renting out copies of the cinematographic work). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第三条第一項（著作物の発行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-3/par-1 - 著作権法 第三条第二項（著作物の発行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-3/par-2 - 著作権法 第十七条第一項（著作者の権利） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-17/par-1 - 著作権法 第四十七条の二第一項（美術の著作物等の譲渡等の申出に伴う複製等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-47-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-47-2/par-1 --- ## 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