# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第三十七条 (Article 37) - 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: 第三十七条 (Article 37)（視覚障害者等のための複製等） — address `art-37` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-37 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-37 - 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. --- ### 第三十七条（視覚障害者等のための複製等） — (Reproduction for Persons with Visual and Vision-Related Impairments; Related Matters) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-37 **第一項** 公表された著作物は、点字により複製することができる。 art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-37/par-1 It is permissible to reproduce in Braille a work that has been made public. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 公表された著作物については、電子計算機を用いて点字を処理する方式により、記録媒体に記録し、又は公衆送信（放送又は有線放送を除き、自動公衆送信の場合にあつては送信可能化を含む。次項において同じ。）を行うことができる。 art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-37/par-2 It is permissible to use a computerized Braille processing system to record a work that has been made public onto a recording medium or transmit to the public such a work (except in a broadcast or cablecast; however, it is permissible to make the work available for transmission, if it is to be transmitted to the public via automatic public transmission; the same applies in the following paragraph). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 視覚障害その他の障害により視覚による表現の認識が困難な者（以下この項及び第百二条第四項において「視覚障害者等」という。）の福祉に関する事業を行う者で政令で定めるものは、公表された著作物であつて、視覚によりその表現が認識される方式（視覚及び他の知覚により認識される方式を含む。）により公衆に提供され、又は提示されているもの（当該著作物以外の著作物で、当該著作物において複製されているものその他当該著作物と一体として公衆に提供され、又は提示されているものを含む。以下この項及び同条第四項において「視覚著作物」という。）について、専ら視覚障害者等で当該方式によつては当該視覚著作物を利用することが困難な者の用に供するために必要と認められる限度において、当該視覚著作物に係る文字を音声にすることその他当該視覚障害者等が利用するために必要な方式により、複製し、又は公衆送信を行うことができる。ただし、当該視覚著作物について、著作権者又はその許諾を得た者若しくは第七十九条の出版権の設定を受けた者若しくはその複製許諾若しくは公衆送信許諾を得た者により、当該方式による公衆への提供又は提示が行われている場合は、この限りでない。 art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-37/par-3 A person set forth by Cabinet Order that engages in an undertaking related to the welfare of persons for whom it is difficult to perceive visual renderings due to a visual or other impairment (hereinafter in this paragraph and in Article 102, paragraph (4) any such person is referred to as a "person with a visual or vision-related impairment") may reproduce a work that has been made public and that is made available or presented to the public in a rendered form that is perceived visually (including a work that has been made public and that is made available or presented to the public in a form that is perceived both visually and through other senses) (including a work other than the work in question which is reproduced therein or which is made available or presented to the public in a body united with the former work; hereinafter in this paragraph and in Article 102, paragraph (4) referred to as a "visual work"), and may transmit such a visual work to the public by changing texts in the visual work into sounds or in any other form that is necessary to allow the visual work to be used by persons with visual and vision-related impairments who have difficulty in using that visual work in its visual form, within the limits that are found to be necessary in order to provide the visual work for their exclusive use; provided, however, that this does not apply if the visual work has already been made available or presented to the public in such a form by the copyright owner, a person authorized thereby, a person in favor of whom the print rights set forth in Article 79 have been established, a person authorized thereby to reproduce the visual work, or a person authorized thereby to transmit the visual work to the public. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-37/par-2: 次項 → 著作権法 第三十七条第三項 (Article 37, paragraph (3)), art-37/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-37/par-3 - art-37/par-3: この項 → 著作権法 第三十七条第三項 (Article 37, paragraph (3)), art-37/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-37/par-3 - art-37/par-3: 第百二条第四項 → 著作権法 第百二条第四項 (Article 102, paragraph (4)), art-102/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-102/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-102/par-4 - art-37/par-3: 第七十九条 → 著作権法 第七十九条 (Article 79), art-79 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-79 ## Cited by 18 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第三十七条第二項（視覚障害者等のための複製等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-37/par-2 - 著作権法 第三十七条第三項（視覚障害者等のための複製等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-37/par-3 - 著作権法 第四十七条の六第一項第二号（翻訳、翻案等による利用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-47-6/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-47-6/par-1/item-2 - 著作権法 第四十七条の六第一項第四号（翻訳、翻案等による利用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-47-6/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-47-6/par-1/item-4 - 著作権法 第四十七条の七第一項（複製権の制限により作成された複製物の譲渡） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-47-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-47-7/par-1 - 著作権法 第四十八条第一項第一号（出所の明示） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-48/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-48/par-1/item-1 - 著作権法 第四十八条第一項第二号（出所の明示） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-48/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-48/par-1/item-2 - 著作権法 第四十九条第一項第一号（複製物の目的外使用等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-49/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-49/par-1/item-1 - 著作権法 第四十九条第二項第一号（複製物の目的外使用等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-49/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-49/par-2/item-1 - 著作権法 第八十六条第一項（出版権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-86/par-1 - 著作権法 第八十六条第二項第二号（出版権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-86/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-86/par-2/item-2 - 著作権法 第八十六条第三項（出版権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-86/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-86/par-3 - 著作権法 第百二条第一項（著作隣接権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-102/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-102/par-1 - 著作権法 第百二条第二項（著作隣接権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-102/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-102/par-2 - 著作権法 第百二条第四項（著作隣接権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-102/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-102/par-4 - 著作権法 第百二条第九項第一号（著作隣接権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-102/par-9/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-102/par-9/item-1 - 著作権法 第百二条第九項第五号（著作隣接権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-102/par-9/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-102/par-9/item-5 - 著作権法 附則第二条第一項（視覚障害者のための録音物の使用についての経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/suppl-4211-53/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-4211-53/art-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