# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第三十三条の三 (Article 33-3) - 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: 第三十三条の三 (Article 33-3)（教科用拡大図書等の作成のための複製等） — address `art-33-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-33-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-33-3 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十三条の三（教科用拡大図書等の作成のための複製等） — (Reproduction in Order to Prepare a Large-Print Textbook) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-33-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-33-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-33-3 **第一項** 教科用図書に掲載された著作物は、視覚障害、発達障害その他の障害により教科用図書に掲載された著作物を使用することが困難な児童又は生徒の学習の用に供するため、当該教科用図書に用いられている文字、図形等の拡大その他の当該児童又は生徒が当該著作物を使用するために必要な方式により複製することができる。 art-33-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-33-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-33-3/par-1 In order to make a work printed in a textbook available for the leaning purposes of children or students who have difficulty using such a work printed in a textbook due to a visual impairment, developmental disorder, or other disabilities, it is permissible to reproduce the work with enlarged letters, illustrations and the like, or by any other means necessary for those children or students to use that work. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により複製する教科用の図書その他の複製物（点字により複製するものを除き、当該教科用図書に掲載された著作物の全部又は相当部分を複製するものに限る。以下この項において「教科用拡大図書等」という。）を作成しようとする者は、あらかじめ当該教科用図書を発行する者にその旨を通知するとともに、営利を目的として当該教科用拡大図書等を頒布する場合にあつては、第三十三条第二項に規定する補償金の額に準じて文化庁長官が定める算出方法により算出した額の補償金を当該著作物の著作権者に支払わなければならない。 art-33-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-33-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-33-3/par-2 A person that seeks to prepare textbooks or any other copies in which works are reproduced pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (excluding copies in which the works are reproduced in Braille, and limited to copies in which all of or a considerable part of the works printed in the relevant textbook are reproduced; hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as a "large-print textbook, etc.") must inform the person that publishes the relevant textbook of this in advance; and, if the person distributes the large-print textbooks, etc. commercially, the person must pay the owners of the copyrights to the relevant works compensation in the amount calculated based on a method established by the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs in proportion to the amount of compensation provided for in Article 33, paragraph (2). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 文化庁長官は、前項の算出方法を定めたときは、これをインターネットの利用その他の適切な方法により公表するものとする。 art-33-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-33-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-33-3/par-3 When the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs has established the calculation method referred to in the preceding paragraph, the commissioner announces this using the internet or by any other appropriate method. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 障害のある児童及び生徒のための教科用特定図書等の普及の促進等に関する法律（平成二十年法律第八十一号）第五条第一項又は第二項の規定により教科用図書に掲載された著作物に係る電磁的記録の提供を行う者は、その提供のために必要と認められる限度において、当該著作物を利用することができる。 art-33-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-33-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-33-3/par-4 A person that provides electronic or magnetic records of the works printed in a textbook pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act to Accelerate the Dissemination of School Textbooks for Children and Students with Disabilities (Act No. 81 of 2008) may exploit those works, to the extent that is found to be necessary in order for the person to provide those electronic or magnetic records. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-33-3/par-2: 前項 → 著作権法 第三十三条の三第一項 (Article 33-3, paragraph (1)), art-33-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-33-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-33-3/par-1 - art-33-3/par-2: この項 → 著作権法 第三十三条の三第二項 (Article 33-3, paragraph (2)), art-33-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-33-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-33-3/par-2 - art-33-3/par-2: 第三十三条第二項 → 著作権法 第三十三条第二項 (Article 33, paragraph (2)), art-33/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-33/par-2 - art-33-3/par-3: 前項 → 著作権法 第三十三条の三第二項 (Article 33-3, paragraph (2)), art-33-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-33-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-33-3/par-2 - art-33-3/par-4: 障害のある児童及び生徒のための教科用特定図書等の普及の促進等に関する法律（平成二十年法律第八十一号）第五条第一項 → e-Gov law 420AC0100000081, 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-33-3/par-4: 第二項 → e-Gov law 420AC0100000081, 第五条第二項 (Article 5, paragraph (2)), art-5/par-2 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 19 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第二十条第二項第一号（同一性保持権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-20/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-20/par-2/item-1 - 著作権法 第三十三条の三第二項（教科用拡大図書等の作成のための複製等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-33-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-33-3/par-2 - 著作権法 第三十三条の三第三項（教科用拡大図書等の作成のための複製等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-33-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-33-3/par-3 - 著作権法 第四十七条の六第一項第三号（翻訳、翻案等による利用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-47-6/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-47-6/par-1/item-3 - 著作権法 第四十七条の七第一項（複製権の制限により作成された複製物の譲渡） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-47-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-47-7/par-1 - 著作権法 第四十八条第一項第一号（出所の明示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-48/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-48/par-1/item-1 - 著作権法 第四十九条第一項第一号（複製物の目的外使用等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-49/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-49/par-1/item-1 - 著作権法 第四十九条第二項第一号（複製物の目的外使用等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-49/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-49/par-2/item-1 - 著作権法 第七十一条第一項第一号（文化審議会への諮問） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-71/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-71/par-1/item-1 - 著作権法 第七十四条第一項（補償金等の供託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-74/par-1 - 著作権法 第八十六条第一項（出版権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-86/par-1 - 著作権法 第八十六条第二項第二号（出版権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-86/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-86/par-2/item-2 - 著作権法 第八十六条第三項（出版権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-86/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-86/par-3 - 著作権法 第百二条第一項（著作隣接権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-102/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-102/par-1 - 著作権法 第百二条第二項（著作隣接権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-102/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-102/par-2 - 著作権法 第百二条第三項（著作隣接権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-102/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-102/par-3 - 著作権法 第百二条第九項第一号（著作隣接権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-102/par-9/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-102/par-9/item-1 - 著作権法 第百二条第九項第五号（著作隣接権の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-102/par-9/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-102/par-9/item-5 - 著作権法 第百三条第一項（著作隣接権の譲渡、行使等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-103/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-103/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