# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第五十六条 (Article 56) - 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: 第五十六条 (Article 56)（継続的刊行物等の公表の時） — address `art-56` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-56 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-56 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条（継続的刊行物等の公表の時） — (The Time at Which a Serial Publication Is Made Public) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-56 **第一項** 第五十二条第一項、第五十三条第一項及び第五十四条第一項の公表の時は、冊、号又は回を追つて公表する著作物については、毎冊、毎号又は毎回の公表の時によるものとし、一部分ずつを逐次公表して完成する著作物については、最終部分の公表の時によるものとする。 art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-56/par-1 The time at which a work is made public as referred to in Article 52, paragraph (1); Article 53, paragraph (1); or Article 54, paragraph (1) is the time at which each volume, issue, or installment is made public, for works that are made public successively in volumes, issues, or installments, or the time at which the last part of the work is made public, for works that are made public sequentially in parts. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 一部分ずつを逐次公表して完成する著作物については、継続すべき部分が直近の公表の時から三年を経過しても公表されないときは、すでに公表されたもののうちの最終の部分をもつて前項の最終部分とみなす。 art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-56/par-2 If the subsequent part of a work that is completed after being made public sequentially in parts, has not been made public even though three years have passed since the most recent part was made public, the last of the parts of the work that has been made public is deemed to be the last part of the work for the purposes of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-56/par-1: 第五十二条第一項 → 著作権法 第五十二条第一項 (Article 52, paragraph (1)), art-52/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-52/par-1 - art-56/par-1: 第五十三条第一項 → 著作権法 第五十三条第一項 (Article 53, paragraph (1)), art-53/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-53/par-1 - art-56/par-1: 第五十四条第一項 → 著作権法 第五十四条第一項 (Article 54, paragraph (1)), art-54/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-54/par-1 - art-56/par-2: 前項 → 著作権法 第五十六条第一項 (Article 56, paragraph (1)), art-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-56/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第五十六条第二項（継続的刊行物等の公表の時） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-56/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