Patent ID: 7019204
Filing Date: 2006-03-28
Classification: G06Q,G09B

Abstract:
1. A musical-score-generating information processing apparatus comprising: a display device; a data input section that inputs musical-score-related data into said information processing apparatus from outside, the musical-score-related data including musical score information and right-to-use information defining a usable range of the musical score information, said right-to-use information including a storage authorization flag and a transmission authorization flag; a storage section that stores musical-score-related data input via said data input section; an instruction supply section that gives an instruction to be executed by said information processing apparatus; a transmission section that transmits, to outside said information processing apparatus, musical-score-related data stored in said storage section; and a control section that, when a musical score display instruction is given by said instruction supply section, performs control to read out the musical score information of musical-score-related data stored in said storage section, and that, when a predetermined instruction is given by said instruction supply section, determines, on the basis of the storage authorization flag included in the right-to-use information of corresponding musical-score-related data stored in said storage section, whether or not storage of a corresponding musical score is authorized, said control section performing control to delete the corresponding musical-score-related data from said storage section if said control section determines that the storage of the corresponding musical score is not authorized, wherein, when a musical-score-related-data transmission instruction is given by said instruction supply section, said control section reads out musical-score-related data stored in said storage section, and determines, on the basis of the transmission authorization flag included in the right-to-use information of the read-out musical-score-related data, whether or not transmission of the corresponding musical score is authorized, and, if said control section determines that the transmission of the corresponding musical score is authorized, said control section rewrites the storage authorization flag included in the right-to-use information of the read-out musical-score-related data into such contents as to not authorize storage of a corresponding musical score, and then causes said transmission section to transmit the musical-score-related data with the rewritten right-to-use information.