# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第百四条の十八 (Article 104-18) - 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: 第百四条の十八 (Article 104-18)（指定） — address `art-104-18` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-104-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-104-18 - 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. --- ### 第百四条の十八（指定） — Designation caption: machine translation, not official art-104-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-104-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-104-18 **第一項** 文化庁長官は、一般社団法人又は一般財団法人であつて、第百四条の二十に規定する業務（以下この節及び第百二十二条の二第三号において「補償金管理業務」という。）を適正かつ確実に行うことができると認められるものを、全国を通じて一個に限り、補償金管理業務を行う者として指定することができる。 art-104-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-104-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-104-18/par-1 The Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs may designate, as the person to carry out compensation management functions, only one general incorporated association or general incorporated foundation in the whole country that is found to be capable of properly and reliably carrying out the functions provided for in Article 104-20 (hereinafter referred to as "compensation management functions" in this Section and Article 122-2, item (iii)). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-104-18/par-1: 第百四条の二十 → 著作権法 第百四条の二十 (Article 104-20), art-104-20 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-104-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-104-20 - art-104-18/par-1: 第百二十二条の二第三号 → 著作権法 第百二十二条の二第一項第三号 (Article 122-2, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-122-2/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-122-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-122-2/par-1/item-3 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第百四条の十九第一項（指定の手続等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-104-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-104-19/par-1 - 著作権法 附則第三条第一項（指定補償金管理機関の指定等に関する準備行為） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-5051-33/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-5051-33/art-3/par-1 - 著作権法 附則第三条第二項（指定補償金管理機関の指定等に関する準備行為） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-5051-33/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-5051-33/art-3/par-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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch copyright-act-20261019T151240-005, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 著作権法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19