# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第百二十条 (Article 120) - 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: 第百二十条 (Article 120) — address `art-120` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-120 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-120 - 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. --- ### 第百二十条 art-120 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-120 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-120 **第一項** 第六十条又は第百一条の三の規定に違反した者は、五百万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-120/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-120/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-120/par-1 A person that violates the provisions of Article 60 or Article 101-3 is subject to a fine of up to five million yen. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-120/par-1: 第六十条 → 著作権法 第六十条 (Article 60), art-60 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-60 - art-120/par-1: 第百一条の三 → 著作権法 第百一条の三 (Article 101-3), art-101-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-101-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-101-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第百二十四条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-124/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-124/par-1/item-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