# 著作権法 / Copyright Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-4241-43/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-4241-43/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-4241-43/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条 suppl-4241-43/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-4241-43/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-4241-43/art-3 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現にこの法律による改正前の著作権法第三十一条第二項の規定により記録媒体に記録されている著作物であって、絶版等資料（新法第三十一条第一項第三号に規定する「絶版等資料」をいう。）に係るものについては、新法第三十一条第三項の規定により当該著作物の複製物を用いて自動公衆送信（送信可能化を含む。）を行うことができる。 suppl-4241-43/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-4241-43/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-4241-43/art-3/par-1 A work that has been recorded on a recording medium as of the effective date of this Act pursuant to the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (2) of the Copyright Act prior to its amendment by this Act and that is associated with a rare or out-of-print material (meaning a "rare or out-of-print material" as prescribed in Article 31, paragraph (1), item (3) of the new Act) may be transmitted via automatic public transmission (this includes making a work available for transmission) using a copy of that work, pursuant to the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (3) of the new Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4241-43/art-3/par-1: 新法第三十一条第一項第三号 → 著作権法 第三十一条第一項第三号 (Article 31, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-31/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-31/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-31/par-1/item-3 - suppl-4241-43/art-3/par-1: 新法第三十一条第三項 → 著作権法 第三十一条第七項 (Article 31, paragraph (7)), art-31/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/art-31/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/art-31/par-7 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 著作権法 附則第五条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/copyright-act/suppl-4241-43/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/345AC0000000048/suppl-4241-43/art-5/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 211 — 著作権法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19