# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第六十九条 (Article 69) - 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: 第六十九条 (Article 69)（商業用レコードへの録音等） — address `art-69` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-69 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-69 - 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. --- ### 第六十九条（商業用レコードへの録音等） — (Recording Sounds onto Commercial Phonograms) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-69 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-69 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-69 **第一項** 商業用レコードが最初に国内において販売され、かつ、その最初の販売の日から三年を経過した場合において、当該商業用レコードに著作権者の許諾を得て録音されている音楽の著作物を録音して他の商業用レコードを製作しようとする者は、次の各号のいずれにも該当するときは、文化庁長官の裁定を受け、かつ、通常の使用料の額に相当するものとして文化庁長官が定める額の補償金を著作権者に支払つて、当該録音又は譲渡による公衆への提供をすることができる。 art-69/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-69/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-69/par-1 Once a commercial phonogram has been sold for the first time in Japan and three years have elapsed since the date of its first sale, a person seeking to make a sound recording of a musical work whose sound has been recorded onto that phonogram with the authorization of the copyright owner and to thereby produce a different commercial phonogram may, if all of the following items are satisfied, make such a sound recording or make such a commercial phonogram available to the public through its transfer pursuant to a compulsory license by the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs and after paying compensation to the copyright owner in the amount that has been fixed by the Commissioner as equivalent to the ordinary rate of royalties. machine translation, not official **一** 著作権者に対し録音又は譲渡による公衆への提供の許諾につき協議を求めたが、その協議が成立せず、又はその協議をすることができないこと。 art-69/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-69/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-69/par-1/item-1 the person has requested the copyright owner to agree to authorize that person to make such a sound recording or to make such a commercial phonogram available to the public through its transfer, but an agreement cannot be reached or deliberations about this cannot be entered into; machine translation, not official **二** 著作者が当該音楽の著作物の録音その他の利用を廃絶しようとしていることが明らかでないこと。 art-69/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-69/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-69/par-1/item-2 it is not clear that the author intends to discontinue the sound recording or other exploitation of that musical work. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前条第三項及び第四項の規定は、前項の裁定について準用する。 art-69/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-69/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-69/par-2 The provisions of paragraphs (3) and (4) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the compulsory license referred to in the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-69/par-2: 前条第三項 → 著作権法 第六十八条第三項 (Article 68, paragraph (3)), art-68/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-68/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-68/par-3 - art-69/par-2: 第四項 → 著作権法 第六十八条第四項 (Article 68, paragraph (4)), art-68/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-68/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-68/par-4 - art-69/par-2: 前項 → 著作権法 第六十九条第一項 (Article 69, paragraph (1)), art-69/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-69/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-69/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第二十六条の二第二項第二号（譲渡権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-26-2/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-26-2/par-2/item-2 - 著作権法 第三十条の三第一項（検討の過程における利用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-30-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-30-3/par-1 - 著作権法 第六十九条第二項（商業用レコードへの録音等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-69/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-69/par-2 - 著作権法 第七十条第一項（裁定に関する事項の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-70/par-1 - 著作権法 第七十一条第一項第二号（文化審議会への諮問） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-71/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-71/par-1/item-2 - 著作権法 第七十二条第一項（補償金の額についての訴え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-72/par-1 - 著作権法 第七十三条第一項（補償金の額についての審査請求の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-73/par-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 附則第十一条第一項（裁定による著作物の利用についての経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3451-48/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3451-48/art-11/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch copyright-act-20261019T151240-003, translated 2026-10-20 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch copyright-act-20261019T155604-001, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 著作権法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19