# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-3631-87` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3631-87 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3631-87 - 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. --- ## 附　則 昭和六三年一一月一日法律第八七号 suppl-3631-87 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3631-87 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3631-87 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から起算して二十日を経過した日から施行する。 suppl-3631-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3631-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3631-87/par-1 This Act comes into effect 20 days after the date of its promulgation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 改正後の著作権法第百二十一条第二号の規定は、この法律の施行後に行われる次に掲げる行為については、適用しない。 suppl-3631-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3631-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3631-87/par-2 The provisions of Article 121, item (ii) of the post-amendment Copyright Act do not apply to the following acts that take place after this Act comes into effect: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 国内において商業用レコードの製作を業とする者がレコード製作者からそのレコード（第八条各号のいずれかに該当するものを除く。）の原盤の提供を受けて製作した商業用レコード（次号において「特定外国原盤商業用レコード」という。）で、当該原盤に音を最初に固定した日の属する年の翌年から起算して二十年を経過する日（次号において「改正前の禁止期間経過日」という。）がこの法律の施行前であるものを商業用レコードとして複製し、又はその複製物を頒布する行為 suppl-3631-87/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3631-87/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3631-87/par-2/item-1 the reproduction, as a commercial phonogram, of copies of a commercial phonogram that a person in the business of producing commercial phonograms in Japan produces from the master of a phonogram (other than a phonogram falling under one of the items of Article 8) that is made available by the producer of that phonogram (referred to as a "commercial phonogram produced from a master from a specified foreign country" in the following item), for which the day that marks the passage of 20 years counting from the year following the year in which the sounds are first fixed into the master (referred to as the "day marking the end the pre-amendment prohibition" in the following item) is before this Act comes into effect; or the distribution of the copies of such a reproduced commercial phonogram as a commercial phonogram; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 改正前の禁止期間経過日以前に特定外国原盤商業用レコードを複製した商業用レコードで、改正前の禁止期間経過日がこの法律の施行前であるものを頒布する行為 suppl-3631-87/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3631-87/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3631-87/par-2/item-2 the distribution of a commercial phonogram in which a commercial phonogram produced from a master from a specified foreign country has been reproduced on or before the day marking the end the pre-amendment prohibition, and for which the day marking the end the pre-amendment prohibition is before this Act comes into effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-3631-87/par-2/item-1: 次号 → 著作権法 附則第二項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, paragraph (2), item (ii)), suppl-3631-87/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3631-87/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3631-87/par-2/item-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 附則第二項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-3631-87/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-3631-87/par-2/item-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