Patent ID: 8249428

Claim:
A content management device for managing transfer of a content in digital format, the device comprising: communication circuitry configured to output a second content in digital format so as to record the second content on a second recording medium that is an external recording medium, while a first content in digital format is kept in a first recording medium, the second content in digital format being generated from at least part of the first content recorded on the first recording medium, and the second content having quality lower than quality of the first content; and content control circuitry configured to, when the second content is outputted to the second recording medium, (i) maintain specification information and the first content in association with each other on the first recording medium, the specification information being used for specifying the at least part of the first content data which is used in generating the second content, and (ii) disable playback of the at least part of the first content which is specified by specification information.