SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENTS USE MANAGEMENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a contents use management system, etc., which enables a server to surely and easily control the use of contents on a user terminal without placing any load on the user terminal. SOLUTION: The server 100 of the contents use management system is equipped with a user right information DB 120 which stores right information regarding the right to use contents that the user using the user terminal 200a has and a contents information generation part 170 which generates LT as right information showing part of the use right that the user has at a request made by the user and sends it to the user terminal 200a. The user terminal 200a, on the other hand, is equipped with a communication part 210 which receives the LT sent from the server 100 and a license information processing part 260 which controls the use of the contents according to the use right that the received LT shows.