CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH USAGE RULE MANAGEMENT SERVER

摘要

At the time of moving a content from an e-book content receiving terminal (102) to a copyright protection medium (103), from among a plurality of usage rules set to the content, those defined by the copyright protection medium (103) is moved to the copyright protection medium (103) by a content moving section (106), and those not defined by the copyright protection medium (103) are transmitted to a usage rule management server (104) via a communications section(105). On the other hand, at the time of moving the content from the copyright protectionmedium (103) to the e-book content receiving terminal (102), the usage rules from the copyright protection medium(103) and the usage rules from the usage rule management server (104) are combined together. In this manner, even when a content is moved through a copyright protection medium in which usage rules of the content are not fully defined therein, none of the usage rules is lost.