# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第十五条 (Article 15) - 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: 第十五条 (Article 15)（職務上作成する著作物の著作者） — address `art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-15 - 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. --- ### 第十五条（職務上作成する著作物の著作者） — (Authorship of a Work Made in the Course of Duty) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-15 **第一項** 法人その他使用者（以下この条において「法人等」という。）の発意に基づきその法人等の業務に従事する者が職務上作成する著作物（プログラムの著作物を除く。）で、その法人等が自己の著作の名義の下に公表するものの著作者は、その作成の時における契約、勤務規則その他に別段の定めがない限り、その法人等とする。 art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-15/par-1 For a work (except computer programming) that an employee of a corporation or other employers (hereinafter in this Article such a corporation or other employers are referred to as a "corporation, etc.") makes in the course of duty at the initiative of the corporation, etc., and that the corporation, etc. makes public as a work of its own authorship, the author is the corporation, etc., so long as it is not stipulated otherwise in a contract, in employment rules, or elsewhere at the time the work is made. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 法人等の発意に基づきその法人等の業務に従事する者が職務上作成するプログラムの著作物の著作者は、その作成の時における契約、勤務規則その他に別段の定めがない限り、その法人等とする。 art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-15/par-2 For a work of computer programming that an employee of a corporation, etc. makes at the initiative of the corporation, etc. in the course of duty, the author is the corporation, etc., so long as it is not stipulated otherwise in a contract, in employment rules, or elsewhere at the time the work is made. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-15/par-1: この条 → 著作権法 第十五条 (Article 15), art-15 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-15 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第十五条第一項（職務上作成する著作物の著作者） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-15/par-1 - 著作権法 第十六条第一項（映画の著作物の著作者） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-16/par-1 - 著作権法 第二十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-29/par-1 - 著作権法 第二十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-29/par-2 - 著作権法 第二十九条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-29/par-3 - 著作権法 第五十三条第三項（団体名義の著作物の保護期間） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-53/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-53/par-3 - 著作権法 附則第四条第一項（法人名義の著作物等の著作者についての経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3451-48/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3451-48/art-4/par-1 - 著作権法 附則第二項（職務上作成する著作物についての経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3601-62/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3601-62/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