# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第七十七条 (Article 77) - 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: 第七十七条 (Article 77)（著作権の登録） — address `art-77` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-77 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-77 - 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. --- ### 第七十七条（著作権の登録） — (Registration of a Copyright) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-77 **第一項** 次に掲げる事項は、登録しなければ、第三者に対抗することができない。 art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-77/par-1 The following particulars may not be asserted against a third party unless they are registered: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 著作権の移転若しくは信託による変更又は処分の制限 art-77/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-77/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-77/par-1/item-1 the transfer of a copyright or alteration of it by trust, or a restriction on its disposal; machine translation, not official **二** 著作権を目的とする質権の設定、移転、変更若しくは消滅（混同又は著作権若しくは担保する債権の消滅によるものを除く。）又は処分の制限 art-77/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-77/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-77/par-1/item-2 the establishment, transfer, alteration, or expiration of a pledge on a copyright (except when due to comingling or to the expiration of the copyright or the claim it secures), or a restriction on its disposal. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-1 - 著作権法 第七十八条第一項（登録手続等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-78/par-1 - 著作権法 第百四条第一項（著作隣接権の登録） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-104/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-104/par-1 - 著作権法 附則第十二条第一項（登録についての経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/suppl-3451-48/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3451-48/art-12/par-1 - 著作権法 附則第二十条第一項（著作権法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/suppl-4301-72/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-4301-72/art-20/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch copyright-act-20261019T151240-004, 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