DATA COPYING SYSTEM, DATA COPYING METHOD, DATA READING APPARATUS, DATA WRITING APPARATUS AND DATA RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

THERE IS PROVIDED A COPYING SYSTEM (1) FOR COPYING INFORMATION RECORDED ON A FIRST RECORDING MEDIUM (102) ONTO A SECOND RECORDING MEDIUM (212). THE FIRST RECORDING MEDIUM (102) IS RECORDED WITH COPYING CONTROL INFORMATION (30) FOR REPRESENTING CONDITIONS FOR PERMITTING COPYING OF THE INFORMATION RECORDED ON THE FIRST RECORDING MEDIUM (102), THE COPYING CONTROL INFORMATION (30) BEING MULTIPLEXED WITHIN THE INFORMATION RECORDED ON THE FIRST RECORDING MEDIUM (102). THE COPYING SYSTEM (1) INCLUDES: A READING SECTION (110) FOR READING THE INFORMATION FROM THE FIRST RECORDING MEDIUM (102); A DETECTION SECTION (114) FOR DETECTING THE COPYING CONTROL INFORMATION (30) WITHIN THE INFORMATION READ FROM THE FIRST RECORDING MEDIUM (102); A MODIFICATION SECTION (208) FOR, IF THE COPYING CONTROL INFORMATION (30) REPRESENTS A CONDITION THAT "ONLY COPYING TO A SECOND GENERATION COPY IS PERMITTED", MODIFYING THE COPYING CONTROL INFORMATION (30) SO AS TO PROHIBIT ANY FURTHER COPYING: AND A WRITING SECTION (210) FOR WRITING INFORMATION INCLUDING THE MODIFIED COPYING CONTROL INFORMATION (30), ONTO THE SECOND RECORDING MEDIUM (212).