# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（著作物の保護期間についての経過措置） — address `suppl-3451-48/art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3451-48/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3451-48/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（著作物の保護期間についての経過措置） — (Transitional Measures for the Term of Protection) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-3451-48/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3451-48/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3451-48/art-7 **第一項** この法律の施行前に公表された著作物の著作権の存続期間については、当該著作物の旧法による著作権の存続期間が新法第二章第四節の規定による期間より長いときは、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3451-48/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3451-48/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3451-48/art-7/par-1 If the duration of copyright under the former Act for a work made public before this Act comes into effect is longer than the period under Chapter II, Section 4 of the new Act, prior laws continue to govern the duration of copyright for that work. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-4151-85/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-4151-85/art-3/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 - This site's parser, version 210 — 著作権法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19