# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions)

- 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-4061-112`
- Text: the text as amended with effect from 2029-06-23 (On a day set by Cabinet Order, no later than 23 June 2029 — the amending law allows up to three years from promulgation. The exact day is not fixed yet.) — NOT yet in force (revision 20290623_508AC0000000048)
- URL (this text's page, at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112
- The same address in the text in force (its wording there may differ): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-4061-112
- Every provision below carries its address and its place on this text's page on the line under it.
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## 附　則 平成六年一二月一四日法律第一一二号
<sup>suppl-4061-112 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、世界貿易機関を設立するマラケシュ協定が日本国について効力を生ずる日の翌日から起算して一年を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-4061-112/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect on the date fixed by Cabinet Order within one year of the day following that on which the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization comes into force with respect to Japan.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**第二項**  第一条の規定による改正後の著作権法（以下「新法」という。）第七条第四号に掲げる実演（同条第一号から第三号までに掲げる実演に該当するものを除く。）で次に掲げるもの又は同条第五号に掲げる実演で次に掲げるものに対する著作権法中著作隣接権に関する規定（第九十五条の五第三項及び第四項の規定を含む。）の適用については、著作権法の一部を改正する法律（昭和六十一年法律第六十四号）附則第三項、著作権法の一部を改正する法律（平成元年法律第四十三号。以下「平成元年改正法」という。）附則第二項及び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。附則第四項において「平成三年改正法」という。）附則第二項の規定は、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-4061-112/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-2</sup>
In the application of the provisions of the Copyright Act that concern neighboring rights (including the provisions of Article 95-5, paragraphs (3) and (4)) to a performance set forth in the following that is also set forth in Article 7, item (iv) of the Copyright Act as amended under the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as "the new Act") (other than a performance that also falls under a category set forth in item (i) through item (iii) of that Article), and in the application of such provisions to a performance set forth in the following that is also set forth in Article 7, item (v) of the new Act, the provisions of paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Copyright Act (Act No. 64 of 1986); paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Copyright Act (Act No. 43 of 1989; hereinafter referred to as "the Amending Act of 1989"); and paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Copyright Act (Act No. 63 of 1991; referred to as "the 1991 Amendment Act" in paragraph (4) of these Supplementary Provisions) do not apply:
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**一**  世界貿易機関の加盟国において行われた実演
<sup>suppl-4061-112/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-2/item-1</sup>
a performance that takes place in a World Trade Organization Member State;
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**二**  次に掲げるレコードに固定された実演
<sup>suppl-4061-112/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-2/item-2</sup>
a performance fixed in one of the following phonograms:
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **イ**  世界貿易機関の加盟国の国民（当該加盟国の法令に基づいて設立された法人及び当該加盟国に主たる事務所を有する法人を含む。以下同じ。）をレコード製作者とするレコード
  <sup>suppl-4061-112/par-2/item-2/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-2/item-2/sub-1</sup>
  a phonogram whose producer is the national of a World Trade Organization Member State (the nationals of a Member State include corporations established based on the laws and regulations of that State and corporations that have principal offices in that State; the same applies hereinafter);
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **ロ**  レコードでこれに固定されている音が最初に世界貿易機関の加盟国において固定されたもの
  <sup>suppl-4061-112/par-2/item-2/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-2/item-2/sub-2</sup>
  a phonogram in which sounds are first fixed in a World Trade Organization Member State;
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**三**  次に掲げる放送において送信された実演（実演家の承諾を得て送信前に録音され、又は録画されたものを除く。）
<sup>suppl-4061-112/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-2/item-3</sup>
a performance transmitted in one of the following broadcasts (excluding a performance whose sound or visuals are recorded before the transmission with the authorization of the performer):
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **イ**  世界貿易機関の加盟国の国民である放送事業者の放送
  <sup>suppl-4061-112/par-2/item-3/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-2/item-3/sub-1</sup>
  the broadcast of a broadcaster that is the national of a World Trade Organization Member State;
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **ロ**  世界貿易機関の加盟国にある放送設備から行われた放送
  <sup>suppl-4061-112/par-2/item-3/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-2/item-3/sub-2</sup>
  a broadcast made from a broadcasting facility in a World Trade Organization Member State.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**第三項**  前項各号に掲げる実演に係る実演家で当該実演が行われた際国内に常居所を有しない外国人であったものに対する著作権法中著作隣接権に関する規定（第九十五条の五第三項及び第四項の規定を含む。）の適用については、平成元年改正法附則第四項の規定は、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-4061-112/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-3</sup>
In the application of the provisions of the Copyright Act that concern neighboring rights (including the provisions of Article 95-5, paragraphs (3) and (4)) to a performer involved in a performance set forth in one of the items of the preceding paragraph, who is a foreign national without a habitual residence in Japan at the time the performance takes place, the provisions of paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Amending Act of 1989 do not apply.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第四項**  次に掲げるレコードに対する著作権法中著作隣接権に関する規定（第九十七条の五第三項から第五項までの規定を含む。）の適用については、平成元年改正法附則第二項及び第三項並びに平成三年改正法附則第三項の規定は、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-4061-112/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-4</sup>
In the application of the provisions of the Copyright Act that concern neighboring rights (including the provisions of Article 97-5, paragraphs (3) through (5)) to the following phonograms, the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Amending Act of 1989, and paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1991 Amendment Act do not apply:
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**一**  新法第八条第三号に掲げるレコードで次に掲げるもの
<sup>suppl-4061-112/par-4/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-4/item-1</sup>
a phonogram that is set forth in Article 8, item (iii) of the new Act, and that is also set forth in one of the following:
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **イ**  世界貿易機関の加盟国の国民をレコード製作者とするレコード
  <sup>suppl-4061-112/par-4/item-1/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-4/item-1/sub-1</sup>
  a phonogram whose producer is the national of a World Trade Organization Member State;
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **ロ**  レコードでこれに固定されている音が最初に世界貿易機関の加盟国において固定されたもの
  <sup>suppl-4061-112/par-4/item-1/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-4/item-1/sub-2</sup>
  a phonogram in which sounds are first fixed in a World Trade Organization Member State;
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**二**  著作権法第八条第五号に掲げるレコードで許諾を得ないレコードの複製からのレコード製作者の保護に関する条約（附則第六項において「レコード保護条約」という。）により我が国が保護の義務を負うもの
<sup>suppl-4061-112/par-4/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-4/item-2</sup>
a phonogram set forth in Article 8, item (v) of the Copyright Act that Japan is under the obligation to protect pursuant to the Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms (referred to as "the Convention for the Protection of Phonograms" in paragraph (6) of these Supplementary Provisions).
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**第五項**  新法第九条第三号に掲げる放送で次に掲げるものに対する新法中著作隣接権に関する規定の適用については、平成元年改正法附則第二項の規定は、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-4061-112/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-5</sup>
In the application of the provisions of the Copyright Act that concern neighboring rights, to a broadcast set forth in the following that is also set forth in Article 9, item (iii) of the new Act, the provisions of paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Amending Act of 1989 do not apply:
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**一**  世界貿易機関の加盟国の国民である放送事業者の放送
<sup>suppl-4061-112/par-5/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-5/item-1</sup>
the broadcast of a broadcaster that is the national of a World Trade Organization Member State;
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**二**  世界貿易機関の加盟国にある放送設備から行われた放送
<sup>suppl-4061-112/par-5/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-5/item-2</sup>
a broadcast made from a broadcasting facility in a World Trade Organization Member State.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**第六項**  新法第百二十一条の二の規定は、著作権法の施行地外において商業用レコードの製作を業とする者が世界貿易機関の加盟国の国民（実演家、レコード製作者及び放送機関の保護に関する国際条約又はレコード保護条約の締約国の国民（これらの条約の締約国の法令に基づいて設立された法人及び当該締約国に主たる事務所を有する法人を含む。）である場合を除く。）であるレコード製作者からそのレコード（新法第八条各号のいずれかに該当するものを除く。）の原盤の提供を受けて製作した商業用レコードで、当該原盤に音を最初に固定した日の属する年の翌年から起算して二十年を経過する日が著作権法の一部を改正する法律（昭和六十三年法律第八十七号）の施行前であるもの（当該商業用レコードの複製物（二以上の段階にわたる複製に係る複製物を含む。）を含む。）を商業用レコードとして複製し、その複製物を頒布し、又はその複製物を頒布の目的をもって所持する行為であって、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。
<sup>suppl-4061-112/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-6</sup>
The provisions of the Article 121-2 of the new Act do not apply to the reproduction, as a commercial phonogram, of a commercial phonogram (or of a copy of a commercial phonogram (this includes a copy that is two or more intervening reproductions removed from the commercial phonogram)) that a person in the business of producing commercial phonograms in a place outside the jurisdiction of the Copyright Act produces from the master of a phonogram (other than a phonogram falling under one of the items of Article 8 of the new Act) that is made available by the producer of that phonogram that is the national of a World Trade Organization Member State (other than one that is also the national of a Contracting State of the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations or of the Convention for the Protection of Phonograms (the nationals of these Contracting States include corporations established based on the laws and regulations of these States and corporations that have principal offices in these States)), for which the day that marks the passage of 20 years counting from the year following the year in which the sounds are first fixed into the master is before the enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Copyright Act (Act No. 87 of 1988), if that reproduction takes place after this Act comes into effect; nor do the provisions of the Article 121-2 of the new Act apply to the distribution of the copies of such a reproduced commercial phonogram as a commercial phonogram, or the possession of such copies for the purpose of distribution as a commercial phonogram, if the distribution or possession takes place after this Act comes into effect.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4061-112/par-2: 第七条第四号 → 著作権法 第七条第一項第四号 (Article 7, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-7/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/ch-1/from-art-3#art-7/par-1/item-4
- suppl-4061-112/par-2: 同条第一号から第三号まで → 著作権法 第七条第一項第一号 (Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-7/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/ch-1/from-art-3#art-7/par-1/item-1
- suppl-4061-112/par-2: 同条第一号から第三号まで → 著作権法 第七条第一項第二号 (Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-7/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/ch-1/from-art-3#art-7/par-1/item-2
- suppl-4061-112/par-2: 同条第一号から第三号まで → 著作権法 第七条第一項第三号 (Article 7, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-7/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/ch-1/from-art-3#art-7/par-1/item-3
- suppl-4061-112/par-2: 同条第五号 → 著作権法 第七条第一項第五号 (Article 7, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-7/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/ch-1/from-art-3#art-7/par-1/item-5
- suppl-4061-112/par-2: 附則第四項 → 著作権法 附則第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (4)), suppl-4061-112/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-4
- suppl-4061-112/par-3: 前項 → 著作権法 附則第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (2)), suppl-4061-112/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-2
- suppl-4061-112/par-4: 第三項 → 著作権法 附則第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (3)), suppl-4061-112/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-3
- suppl-4061-112/par-4/item-1: 新法第八条第三号 → 著作権法 第八条第一項第三号 (Article 8, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-8/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/ch-1/from-art-3#art-8/par-1/item-3
- suppl-4061-112/par-4/item-2: 著作権法第八条第五号 → 著作権法 第八条第一項第五号 (Article 8, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-8/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/ch-1/from-art-3#art-8/par-1/item-5
- suppl-4061-112/par-4/item-2: 附則第六項 → 著作権法 附則第六項 (Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (6)), suppl-4061-112/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/suppl-4061-112#suppl-4061-112/par-6
- suppl-4061-112/par-5: 新法第九条第三号 → 著作権法 第九条第一項第三号 (Article 9, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-9/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/ch-1/from-art-3#art-9/par-1/item-3
- suppl-4061-112/par-6: 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/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/ch-9/from-art-121#art-121-2
- suppl-4061-112/par-6: 新法第八条 → 著作権法 第八条 (Article 8), art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/amendments/20290623_508AC0000000048/text/ch-1/from-art-3#art-8

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