# 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 / Act on Measures against Infringement of Rights, etc. Arising from the Distribution of Information through Specified Telecommunications — 第一条 (Article 1)
- Law: 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 (Act on Measures against Infringement of Rights, etc. Arising from the Distribution of Information through Specified Telecommunications), 平成十三年法律第百三十七号
- English title "Act on Measures against Infringement of Rights, etc. Arising from the Distribution of Information through Specified Telecommunications": claude-opus-5-5
- 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: 第一条 (Article 1)（趣旨） — address `art-1`
- Text in force since: 2026-07-17
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-1
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### 第一条（趣旨） — (Purpose)
caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System
art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-1
**第一項** この法律は、特定電気通信による情報の流通によって権利の侵害等があった場合について、特定電気通信役務提供者の損害賠償責任の制限及び発信者情報の開示を請求する権利について定めるとともに、発信者情報開示命令事件に関する裁判手続に関し必要な事項を定め、あわせて、侵害情報送信防止措置の実施手続の迅速化及び送信防止措置の実施状況の透明化を図るための大規模特定電気通信役務提供者の義務について定めるものとする。
art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-1/par-1
The purpose of this Act is to set forth the limitation of liability of specified telecommunications service providers for damages and the right to demand disclosure of sender identification information, where the rights of others are violated, etc. due to dissemination of information through specified telecommunications, and to set forth necessary matters for court proceedings in relation to a case of a sender identification information disclosure order, and also to set forth the obligations of large-scale specified telecommunications service providers for expediting the implementation procedures for measures for preventing transmission of violating information and ensuring transparency of the implementation status of transmission prevention measures.
machine translation, not official
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## Sources
- claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-10-12
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-07-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/413AC0000000137/20260717_508AC1000000058), retrieved 2026-10-11
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Measures against Infringement of Rights, etc. Arising from the Distribution of Information through Specified Telecommunications — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4443/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch information-distribution-platform-act-20261011T162317-001, translated 2026-10-12
- This site's parser, version 189 — 特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11