# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第百十七条 (Article 117) - 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: 第百十七条 (Article 117)（共同著作物等の権利侵害） — address `art-117` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-117 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-117 - 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. --- ### 第百十七条（共同著作物等の権利侵害） — (Infringement with Respect to a Joint Work) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-117 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-117 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-117 **第一項** 共同著作物の各著作者又は各著作権者は、他の著作者又は他の著作権者の同意を得ないで、第百十二条の規定による請求又はその著作権の侵害に係る自己の持分に対する損害の賠償の請求若しくは自己の持分に応じた不当利得の返還の請求をすることができる。 art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-117/par-1 Any one co-author or copyright owner in a joint work may file the claim referred to in Article 112, claim that co-author's or co-owner's personal share of compensation for damage due to copyright infringement, or claim the return of the benefit of any unjust enrichment in accordance with that co-author's or co-owner's personal share, without the consent of the other co-authors or co-owners of the copyright. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、共有に係る著作権又は著作隣接権の侵害について準用する。 art-117/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-117/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-117/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis in connection with infringement of a copyright or neighboring rights in co-ownership. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-117/par-1: 第百十二条 → 著作権法 第百十二条 (Article 112), art-112 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-112 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-112 - art-117/par-2: 前項 → 著作権法 第百十七条第一項 (Article 117, paragraph (1)), art-117/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-117/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第百十七条第二項（共同著作物等の権利侵害） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-117/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-117/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 - This site's parser, version 210 — 著作権法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19