# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第十六条 (Article 16) - 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: 第十六条 (Article 16)（映画の著作物の著作者） — address `art-16` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条（映画の著作物の著作者） — (Authorship of a Cinematographic Work) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-16 **第一項** 映画の著作物の著作者は、その映画の著作物において翻案され、又は複製された小説、脚本、音楽その他の著作物の著作者を除き、制作、監督、演出、撮影、美術等を担当してその映画の著作物の全体的形成に創作的に寄与した者とする。ただし、前条の規定の適用がある場合は、この限りでない。 art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-16/par-1 The author of a cinematographic work is the person that makes a creative contribution to the overall shaping of the work through responsibility for its production, direction, staging, filming, art direction, etc., other than the author of a novel, scenario, music, or other work that is adapted into or reproduced in the cinematographic work; provided, however, that this does not apply if the provisions of the preceding Article apply. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-16/par-1: 前条 → 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 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 --- ## 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