Patent ID: 7177857

Claim:
A distribution content creating apparatus comprising: a content storage part operable to store content bodies; a distribution content creating part operable to create a distribution content by reading a content body from said content storage part and providing the read content body with a use condition; and a distribution content storage part operable to store the distribution content created by said distribution content creating part; wherein: said distribution content creating part includes a management data editing part operable to edit management data for at least one specific section of the read content body indicating the use condition of the specific section; the specific section of the read content body is at least one of a plurality of sections on a time axis constituting the read content body; said distribution content creating part is further operable to create the distribution content by providing the content body with a plurality of pieces of management data edited by said management data editing part and with management track data which defines, as a management track, a collection of at least one management data selected from the plurality of pieces of management data; and a plurality of management tracks are defined in the distribution content corresponding to a plurality of different uses of the content body, and the plurality of different uses are different in terms of at least one of a reproduction section of the content body and a reproduction condition of the content body.