# 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 — 第七条 (Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（発信者情報の開示を受けた者の義務） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（発信者情報の開示を受けた者の義務） — (Obligations of Person who Received Disclosure of Sender Identification Information) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-7 **第一項** 第五条第一項又は第二項の規定により発信者情報の開示を受けた者は、当該発信者情報をみだりに用いて、不当に当該発信者情報に係る発信者の名誉又は生活の平穏を害する行為をしてはならない。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-7/par-1 A person to whom the sender identification information has been disclosed as prescribed in the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) or (2) must not use the sender identification information without a good reason to commit an act that unjustly damages the reputation or would disturb the peaceful life of the sender. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A person to whom the sender identification information has been disclosed as prescribed in the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) or (2) must not use the sender identification information without a good reason or commit an act that unjustly damages the reputation or would disturb the peaceful life of the sender." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4443/tb --- ## Cites - art-7/par-1: 第五条第一項 → 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 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-5/par-1 - art-7/par-1: 第二項 → 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 第五条第二項 (Article 5, paragraph (2)), art-5/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/information-distribution-platform-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000137/art-5/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-10-12 - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, 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 - 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 (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), Article 7, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4443/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - 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