# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第二十七条 (Article 27) - 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: 第二十七条 (Article 27)（翻訳権、翻案権等） — address `art-27` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-27 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-27 - 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. --- ### 第二十七条（翻訳権、翻案権等） — (Translation Rights, Adaptation Rights, and Other Rights) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-27 **第一項** 著作者は、その著作物を翻訳し、編曲し、若しくは変形し、又は脚色し、映画化し、その他翻案する権利を専有する。 art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-27/par-1 The author of a work has the exclusive right to translate that work, compose a musical arrangement of it, reformulate it, dramatize it, make a cinematographic adaptation of it, or otherwise adapt the work. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 第四十九条第二項（複製物の目的外使用等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-49/par-2 - 著作権法 第六十一条第二項（著作権の譲渡） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-61/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-61/par-2 --- ## 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