# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第七十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 71) - 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: 第七十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 71)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5031-37/art-71` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/suppl-5031-37/art-71 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-5031-37/art-71 - 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. --- ### 第七十一条（罰則に関する経過措置） — (Transitional Measures for Penal Provisions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-5031-37/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/suppl-5031-37/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-5031-37/art-71 **第一項** この法律（附則第一条各号に掲げる規定にあっては、当該規定。以下この条において同じ。）の施行前にした行為及びこの附則の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5031-37/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/suppl-5031-37/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-5031-37/art-71/par-1 Prior laws continue to govern the applicability of penal provisions to an action that a person undertakes before this Act (as for the provisions of the items of Article 1 of these Supplementary Provisions; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) comes into effect and to an action that a person undertakes after this Act comes into effect but that prior laws continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of the Supplementary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-5031-37/art-71/par-1: 附則第一条 → 著作権法 附則第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1), suppl-5031-37/art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/suppl-5031-37/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-5031-37/art-1 - suppl-5031-37/art-71/par-1: この条 → 著作権法 附則第七十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 71), suppl-5031-37/art-71 — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/suppl-5031-37/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-5031-37/art-71 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 著作権法 附則第七十一条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/copyright-act/suppl-5031-37/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-5031-37/art-71/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