CONTENT USE CONTROL DEVICE, RECORDING DEVICE, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND CONTENT USE CONTROL METHOD

摘要

A collective content consisting of partial contents holding license information including a use condition can be appropriately used according to the use condition contained in the license information in each of the partial contents. A content use control device includes an Input/Output I/F, license generation means, output control means, content reproduction means, and use control means. The partial content holding the license information including the use condition is inputted via the Input/Output I/F. License information is assigned to each of the partial contents inputted and constituting a collective content. Single license information collecting the assigned license information and its collective content are outputted to a recording medium. The content use control device reproduces a partial content contained in the collective content recorded on the recording medium and controls the use of the reproduced partial content according its use condition.