COPYRIGHT PROTECTION DEVICE, COPYRIGHT PROTECTION SYSTEM, COPYRIGHT PROTECTION VERIFICATION DEVICE, MEDIUM AND INFORMATION COLLECTIVITY

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve such problem that various methods, such as electronic watermark embedding and the like, for copyright protection for content are developed, but none of them has not been able to efficiently find out an illicit use and to make a report to copyright holder. SOLUTION: This copyright protection device is provided with a content processing means 204 that, when copyright protection is required for content to be distributed using the Internet 107, adds copyright information to the content in advance for illicit use detection, a content collecting means 206 that collects content distributed using the Internet 107, a verification means 207 that detects illicitly used content from collected content, using the copyright information, and a communication means 205 that notifies a prescribed person of the illicit use when an illicitly used content is detected.