# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第七十八条の二 (Article 78-2) - 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: 第七十八条の二 (Article 78-2)（プログラムの著作物の登録に関する特例） — address `art-78-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-78-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-78-2 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条の二（プログラムの著作物の登録に関する特例） — (Special Provisions on the Registration of Works of Computer Programming) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-78-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-78-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-78-2 **第一項** プログラムの著作物に係る登録については、この節の規定によるほか、別に法律で定めるところによる。 art-78-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-78-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-78-2/par-1 Beyond what is provided for in this Section, the particulars of the registration of works of computer programming are as provided separately by law. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 附則第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3601-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3601-62/par-1 - 著作権法 附則第三項（創作年月日登録についての経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3601-62/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3601-62/par-3 --- ## 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