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 his [testamentary] will.


 * (3)　A person whose true name has been registered shall be presumed to be the author of the work which is the subject of said registration.

(Registration of the date of first publication, etc.) Article 76
 * (1) The copyright holder [of any work], as well as the publisher of an anonymous or pseudonymous work, may have registered said work's date of first publication or the date when the work was first made public.


 * (2)　Works as to which the date of first publication or the date of its first having been made public has been registered shall be presumed to have been first published or first made public on said registered date.

(Registration of the date of creation) Article 76-2
 * (1) The author of a computer program work may have the date of the creation of his computer program work registered. The foregoing, however, shall not apply where six months have passed since the creation of said work.


 * (2)　A work as to which the date of [its] creation has been registered as set forth in the preceding paragraph shall be presumed to have been created on said registered date.

(Registration of copyright) Article 77

Unless registered, the matters set forth in the following items may not be asserted against a third party:


 * (i)　the transfer (other than by inheritance or other universal successions; the same shall apply in the next item) of the copyright or a restriction on the disposal of the copyright;


 * (ii)　the establishment, transfer, modification or termination of the pledge on a copyright (other than termination by reason of merger or by reason of the termination of the copyright or the claim secured by the pledge), or a restriction on the disposal of a pledge established on the copyright.

(Procedures, etc. for registration) Article 78


 * (1) The registrations provided for in Article 75, paragraph (1), Article 76, paragraph (1), Article 76-2, paragraph (1) and the preceding Article are accomplished by the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs' entry [of the relevant matters] in the copyright registry.


 * (2)　Upon accomplishment of the registration set forth in Article 75, paragraph (1), the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs shall give public notice of such registration in the Official Gazette.


 * (3)　Any person may request that the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs provide a transcript or extract of the copyright registry or a copy of the documents