# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第百二十一条の三 (Article 121-3) - 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: 第百二十一条の三 (Article 121-3) — address `art-121-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-121-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-121-3 - 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. --- ### 第百二十一条の三 art-121-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-121-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-121-3 **第一項** 第百四条の四十五第二項の規定による確認等事務の停止の命令に違反したときは、当該違反行為をした者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-121-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-121-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-121-3/par-1 If there is a violation of an order to suspend the verification and other affairs under Article 104-45, paragraph (2), the person who committed the violation is subject to imprisonment for a term of up to one year or a fine of up to 500,000 yen. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-121-3/par-1: 第百四条の四十五第二項 → 著作権法 第百四条の四十五第二項 (Article 104-45, paragraph (2)), art-104-45/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-104-45/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-104-45/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第百四条の三十三第一項（登録確認機関による確認等事務の実施等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-104-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-104-33/par-1 --- ## 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-20261019T151240-010, 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