RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE IP/N/4/JPN/1
29February 1996
ORGANIZATION(96-0746)
Original: English Council forTrade-Related Aspects
ofIntellectual Property Rights
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 4(d)OFTHE AGREEMENT
Japan
Thefollowing communication, dated 20February 1996, hasbeenreceived fromthePermanent
Mission ofJapan.
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Inaccordance withArticle 4(d)oftheTRIPS Agreement, theGovernment ofJapan notifies
theCouncil forTRIPS, asannexed, oftheprovisions ofArticle 15(c) oftheTreaty ofPeace withJapan,
which entered intoforce on28April 1952.
Article 15(c) oftheTreaty ofPeace withJapan provides, inter alia,thattheperiod from
7December 1941 untilthecoming intoforce oftheTreaty between Japan andtheAllied Power
concerned, shallbeexcluded fromtherunning ofthenormal termoftheliterary andartistic property
rights which existed inJapan on6December 1941, inrespect tothepublished andunpublished works
oftheAllied Powers andtheirnationals, andsuchperiod, withanadditional period ofsixmonths,
shallbeexcluded fromthetimewithin which aliterary work mustbetranslated intoJapanese inorder
toobtain translating rights inJapan.
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ANNEX
Treaty ofPeace withJapan
(signed attheCityofSanFrancisco, 8September 1951,
andentered intoforce on28April 1952)
Article 15
(c)(i) Japan acknowledges thattheliterary andartistic property rights which existed inJapan
on6December 1941, inrespect tothepublished andunpublished works oftheAllied Powers andtheir
nationals havecontinued inforce since thatdate, andrecognizes those rights which havearisen, or
butforthewarwould havearisen, inJapan since thatdate, bytheoperation ofanyconventions and
agreements towhich Japan wasaparty onthatdate, irrespective ofwhether ornotsuchconventions
oragreements were abrogated orsuspended upon orsince theoutbreak ofwarbythedomestic law
ofJapan oroftheAllied Power concerned.
(ii) Without theneedforapplication bytheproprietor oftherightandwithout thepayment
ofanyfeeorcompliance withanyother formality, theperiod from7December 1941untilthecoming
intoforce ofthepresent Treaty between Japan andtheAllied Power concerned shallbeexcluded from
therunning ofthenormal termofsuchrights; andsuchperiod, withanadditional period ofsixmonths,
shallbeexcluded fromthetimewithin which aliterary work mustbetranslated intoJapanese inorder
toobtain translating rights inJapan.