REPRODUCING METHOD AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS

摘要

In an apparatus that carries out reproduction control on the basis of digital watermark information embedded in a content, for the purpose of providing a reproducing apparatus and a reproducing method in which reproduction stoppage in the middle of reproduction according to the detection result of the digital watermark information does not occur, the reproducing apparatus and the reproducing method are configured so that before reproduction the detection section thereof detects attached information embedded in a content that is recorded on a recording medium, so that the content and the attached information that is detected using the detection section are stored in the storage section thereof so as to be related to each other, and so that the reproduction of the content corresponding to the attached information stored in the storage section is controlled according to the attached information.