| 摘要 |
A method and apparatus for determining payments due for accountable use of one or more protected materials. The protected materials are documented in a database which includes relevant details concerning each of the protected materials (100). Then each copy of a medium (such as a compact disc) including the protected materials is encoded with references to the materials included (102). Upon each use of the copy of the medium (106), the information included in the references encoded on the medium is available to be used with the database to properly allocate copyright payments due (106b'). |
