# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第二十八条 (Article 28) - 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: 第二十八条 (Article 28)（二次的著作物の利用に関する原著作者の権利） — address `art-28` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-28 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-28 - 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. --- ### 第二十八条（二次的著作物の利用に関する原著作者の権利） — (Rights of the Original Author in Connection with the Exploitation of a Derivative Work) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-28 **第一項** 二次的著作物の原著作物の著作者は、当該二次的著作物の利用に関し、この款に規定する権利で当該二次的著作物の著作者が有するものと同一の種類の権利を専有する。 art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-28/par-1 The author of the original work underlying a derivative work holds exclusive rights in the same categories as the rights prescribed in this Subsection that the author of the derivative work holds in connection with the exploitation of that derivative work. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第三条第二項（著作物の発行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-3/par-2 - 著作権法 第四条第三項（著作物の公表） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-4/par-3 - 著作権法 第十七条第一項（著作者の権利） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-17/par-1 - 著作権法 第三十条第一項第四号（私的使用のための複製） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-30/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-30/par-1/item-4 - 著作権法 第三十八条第五項（営利を目的としない上演等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-38/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-38/par-5 - 著作権法 第四十七条の六第二項（翻訳、翻案等による利用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-47-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-47-6/par-2 - 著作権法 第六十一条第二項（著作権の譲渡） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-61/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-61/par-2 - 著作権法 第百十三条第二項（侵害とみなす行為） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-113/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-113/par-2 - 著作権法 第百十九条第三項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-119/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-119/par-3/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