# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（商業用レコードの複製物の頒布の申出についての経過措置） — address `suppl-4211-53/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/suppl-4211-53/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-4211-53/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（商業用レコードの複製物の頒布の申出についての経過措置） — (Transitional Measures for an Offer to Distribute Copies of a Commercial Phonogram) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-4211-53/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/suppl-4211-53/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-4211-53/art-4 **第一項** 新法第百二十一条の二の規定は、著作権法の一部を改正する法律（平成三年法律第六十三号）附則第五項又は著作権法及び万国著作権条約の実施に伴う著作権法の特例に関する法律の一部を改正する法律（平成六年法律第百十二号）附則第六項の規定によりその頒布又は頒布の目的をもってする所持について同条の規定を適用しないこととされる商業用レコードを頒布する旨の申出をする行為であって、この法律の施行後に行われるものについては、適用しない。 suppl-4211-53/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/suppl-4211-53/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-4211-53/art-4/par-1 The provisions of Article 121-2 of the new Act do not apply to the act of offering to distribute a commercial phonogram after this Act comes into effect if, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Copyright Act (Act No. 63 of 1991) or paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Copyright Act and the Act on Special Provisions of the Copyright Act, in Consequence of the Enforcement of the Universal Copyright Convention (Act No. 112 of 1994), the provisions of that Article are not to apply to its distribution or possession for the purpose of distribution. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4211-53/art-4/par-1: 新法第百二十一条の二 → 著作権法 第百二十一条の二 (Article 121-2), art-121-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/art-121-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-121-2 --- ## 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 211 — 著作権法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19