Patent ID: 6945455

Claim:
An apparatus for recording a content containing a watermark, comprising: a detection section configured to detect a first watermark embedded in an original content by a first embedding method; a rewrite section configured to rewrite copy-allowable copy control information, the copy-allowable copy control information included in the first watermark and allowing a copy to be made only once, into copy-prohibited copy control information, the copy-prohibited copy control information prohibiting the copy from being made before recording; a generation section configured to generate (i) a second watermark including copy-prohibited copy control information identical to copy-prohibited copy control information rewritten by the rewrite section, and (ii) a second generation content including the first watermark, the first watermark including rewritten copy-prohibited copy control information, the second watermark including copy-prohibited copy control information identical to rewritten copy-prohibited copy control information, the second generation content obtained by embedding the second watermark in the original content using a second embedding method different from the first embedding method; and a recording section configured to record the second generation content.