WRITTEN WORK PROVIDING SYSTEM USING NETWORK

摘要

PURPOSE:To efficiently manage intellectual property rights accompanying provided written works. CONSTITUTION:Terminal equipments 10-50 are connected to a network 100. A general management device 60 generally manages the entire system and a lot of multimedia works are preserved in the form of work information inside a work information preservation device 70. Corresponding to a request from the terminal equipment 10, the desired work information is transmitted from the work information preservation device 70. Property right data for indicating information such as the rightful person of the work, a utilization price and utilization limitation are included in the transmitted work information. The general management device 60 prepares history information for indicating which work information is provided in which terminal equipment and also prepares charging information for indicating that the price is to be paid from a user to the rightful person based on the property right data of the provided work. Citing data for indicating the citing of the other work are also included in the work information and the charging information is prepared by considering the citing data as well.