# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第八十四条 (Article 84) - 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: 第八十四条 (Article 84)（出版権の消滅の請求） — address `art-84` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-84 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-84 - 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. --- ### 第八十四条（出版権の消滅の請求） — (Claim to the Extinguishment of Print Rights) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-84 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-84 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-84 **第一項** 出版権者が第八十一条第一号（イに係る部分に限る。）又は第二号（イに係る部分に限る。）の義務に違反したときは、複製権等保有者は、出版権者に通知してそれぞれ第八十条第一項第一号又は第二号に掲げる権利に係る出版権を消滅させることができる。 art-84/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-84/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-84/par-1 If the owner of print rights breaches the obligation referred to in Article 81, item (i) (limited to the part concerned with (a)) or item (ii) (limited to the part concerned with (a)), the owner of reproduction rights or public transmission rights may extinguish the print rights connected to the rights provided for in the relevant of Article 80, paragraph (1), item (i) or (ii), by notifying the owner of print rights. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 出版権者が第八十一条第一号（ロに係る部分に限る。）又は第二号（ロに係る部分に限る。）の義務に違反した場合において、複製権等保有者が三月以上の期間を定めてその履行を催告したにもかかわらず、その期間内にその履行がされないときは、複製権等保有者は、出版権者に通知してそれぞれ第八十条第一項第一号又は第二号に掲げる権利に係る出版権を消滅させることができる。 art-84/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-84/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-84/par-2 If the owner of print rights breaches the obligation referred to in Article 81, item (i) (limited to the part concerned with (b)) or item (ii) (limited to the part concerned with (b)), and, notwithstanding that the owner of reproduction rights, etc. has specified a period of at least three months and called upon the owner of print rights to perform the obligation within that period, the owner of the print rights does not perform that obligation within that period, the owner of reproduction rights or public transmission rights may extinguish the print rights connected to the rights provided for in the relevant of Article 80, paragraph (1), item (i) or (ii) by notifying the owner of print rights. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 複製権等保有者である著作者は、その著作物の内容が自己の確信に適合しなくなつたときは、その著作物の出版行為等を廃絶するために、出版権者に通知してその出版権を消滅させることができる。ただし、当該廃絶により出版権者に通常生ずべき損害をあらかじめ賠償しない場合は、この限りでない。 art-84/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-84/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-84/par-3 If the convictions of an author that is the owner of reproduction rights or public transmission rights come to differ from the content of the author's own work, the author may extinguish the print rights to that work by notifying the owner of the print rights of this, in order to stop the act of printing or public transmission of that work; provided, however, that this does not apply if the author does not compensate the owner of print rights in advance for the damages that would usually arise from such stoppage. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-84/par-1: 第八十一条第一号 → 著作権法 第八十一条第一項第一号 (Article 81, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-81/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-81/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-81/par-1/item-1 - art-84/par-1: 第二号 → 著作権法 第八十一条第一項第二号 (Article 81, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-81/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-81/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-81/par-1/item-2 - art-84/par-1: 第八十条第一項第一号 → 著作権法 第八十条第一項第一号 (Article 80, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-80/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-80/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-80/par-1/item-1 - art-84/par-1: 第二号 → 著作権法 第八十条第一項第二号 (Article 80, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-80/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-80/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-80/par-1/item-2 - art-84/par-2: 第八十一条第一号 → 著作権法 第八十一条第一項第一号 (Article 81, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-81/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-81/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-81/par-1/item-1 - art-84/par-2: 第二号 → 著作権法 第八十一条第一項第二号 (Article 81, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-81/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-81/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-81/par-1/item-2 - art-84/par-2: 第八十条第一項第一号 → 著作権法 第八十条第一項第一号 (Article 80, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-80/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-80/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-80/par-1/item-1 - art-84/par-2: 第二号 → 著作権法 第八十条第一項第二号 (Article 80, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-80/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-80/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-80/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 第八十条第二項（出版権の内容） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-80/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-80/par-2 - 著作権法 附則第十三条第三項（出版権についての経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3451-48/art-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3451-48/art-13/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