# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第九十八条 (Article 98) - 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: 第九十八条 (Article 98)（複製権） — address `art-98` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-98 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-98 - 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. --- ### 第九十八条（複製権） — (Right of Reproduction) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-98 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-98 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-98 **第一項** 放送事業者は、その放送又はこれを受信して行なう有線放送を受信して、その放送に係る音又は影像を録音し、録画し、又は写真その他これに類似する方法により複製する権利を専有する。 art-98/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-98/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-98/par-1 A broadcaster has the exclusive right to record sound and visuals from, and to reproduce through photography or by any other similar means, the sounds or images in its broadcast, based on the receipt of its broadcast transmission or based on the receipt of a cablecast transmission that has been made based on the receipt of its broadcast transmission. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第八十九条第三項（著作隣接権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-89/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-89/par-3 - 著作権法 第百二条第九項（著作隣接権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-102/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-102/par-9 --- ## 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