# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第三十七条の二 (Article 37-2) - 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: 第三十七条の二 (Article 37-2)（聴覚障害者等のための複製等） — address `art-37-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-37-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-37-2 - 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. --- ### 第三十七条の二（聴覚障害者等のための複製等） — (Reproduction for Persons with Hearing Impairments; Related Matters) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-37-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-37-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-37-2 **第一項** 聴覚障害者その他聴覚による表現の認識に障害のある者（以下この条及び次条第五項において「聴覚障害者等」という。）の福祉に関する事業を行う者で次の各号に掲げる利用の区分に応じて政令で定めるものは、公表された著作物であつて、聴覚によりその表現が認識される方式（聴覚及び他の知覚により認識される方式を含む。）により公衆に提供され、又は提示されているもの（当該著作物以外の著作物で、当該著作物において複製されているものその他当該著作物と一体として公衆に提供され、又は提示されているものを含む。以下この条において「聴覚著作物」という。）について、専ら聴覚障害者等で当該方式によつては当該聴覚著作物を利用することが困難な者の用に供するために必要と認められる限度において、それぞれ当該各号に掲げる利用を行うことができる。ただし、当該聴覚著作物について、著作権者又はその許諾を得た者若しくは第七十九条の出版権の設定を受けた者若しくはその複製許諾若しくは公衆送信許諾を得た者により、当該聴覚障害者等が利用するために必要な方式による公衆への提供又は提示が行われている場合は、この限りでない。 art-37-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-37-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-37-2/par-1 The person set forth by Cabinet Order for each type of exploitation set forth in the following items that engages in an undertaking related to the welfare of persons with hearing impairments and other persons whose perception of aural renderings is impaired (hereinafter in this Article and in paragraph (5) of the following Article referred to as "persons with hearing impairments, etc.") may exploit a work that has been made public and that is made available or presented to the public in a rendered form that is perceived aurally (including a work that has been made public and that is made available or presented to the public in a form that is perceived aurally and through other senses) (including a work other than the work in question which is reproduced therein, or which is made available or presented to the public in a body united with the former work; hereinafter in this Article referred to as an "aural work"), in the way set forth in the relevant item, within the limits that are found to be necessary in order to provide the aural work for exclusive use by persons with hearing impairments, etc. who have difficulty in using that aural work in its aural form; provided, however, that this does not apply if the aural work has already been made available or presented to the public in the necessary form for persons with hearing impairments, etc. to be able to use it, by the copyright owner, a person authorized thereby, a person in favor of whom the print rights set forth in Article 79 have been established, a person authorized thereby to reproduce the visual work, or a person authorized thereby to transmit the visual work to the public: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The person set forth by Cabinet Order for each type of exploitation set forth in the following items that engages in an undertaking related to the welfare of persons with hearing impairments and other persons whose perception of aural renderings is impaired (hereinafter in this Article and in paragraph (5) of following Article referred to as "persons with hearing impairments, etc.") may exploit a work that has been made public and that is made available or presented to the public in a rendered form that is perceived aurally (including a work that has been made public and that is made available or presented to the public in a form that is perceived aurally and through other senses) (including a work other than the work in question which is reproduced therein, or which is made available or presented to the public in a body united with the former work; hereinafter in this Article referred to as an "aural work"), in the way set forth in the relevant item, within the limits that are found to be necessary in order to provide the aural work for exclusive use by persons with hearing impairments, etc. who have difficulty in using that aural work in its aural form; provided, however, that this does not apply if the aural work has already been made available or presented to the public in the necessary form for persons with hearing impairments, etc. to be able to use it, by the copyright owner, a person authorized thereby, a person in favor of whom the print rights set forth in Article 79 have been established, a person authorized thereby to reproduce the visual work, or a person authorized thereby to transmit the visual work to the public:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4207/tb **一** 当該聴覚著作物に係る音声について、これを文字にすることその他当該聴覚障害者等が利用するために必要な方式により、複製し、又は自動公衆送信（送信可能化を含む。）を行うこと。 art-37-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-37-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-37-2/par-1/item-1 reproducing an aural work or transmitting it via automatic public transmission (this includes making it available for transmission) by changing sounds in the aural work into texts or in any other form that is necessary to allow the work to be used by persons with hearing impairments, etc.; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 専ら当該聴覚障害者等向けの貸出しの用に供するため、複製すること（当該聴覚著作物に係る音声を文字にすることその他当該聴覚障害者等が利用するために必要な方式による当該音声の複製と併せて行うものに限る。）。 art-37-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-37-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-37-2/par-1/item-2 reproducing an aural work solely for the purpose of renting it to persons with hearing impairments, etc. (limited to when this is done in conjunction with the reproduction of the sounds in the aural work by changing the sounds into texts or in any other form that is necessary to allow the aural work to be used by persons with hearing impairments, etc.). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-37-2/par-1: この条 → 著作権法 第三十七条の二 (Article 37-2), art-37-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-37-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-37-2 - art-37-2/par-1: 次条第五項 → 著作権法 第三十八条第五項 (Article 38, paragraph (5)), art-38/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-38/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-38/par-5 - art-37-2/par-1: 第七十九条 → 著作権法 第七十九条 (Article 79), art-79 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-79 ## Cited by 13 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第三十七条の二第一項（聴覚障害者等のための複製等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-37-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-37-2/par-1 - 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 第四十七条の六第一項第五号（翻訳、翻案等による利用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-47-6/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-47-6/par-1/item-5 - 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二号（出所の明示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-48/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-48/par-1/item-2 - 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 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Copyright Act (著作権法), Article 37-2, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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