Patent ID: 8161566

Claim:
A recording method for recording content to be broadcast to an internal recording media and for copying the recorded content, the method comprising: managing restrictive information to be obtained as attribute information associated with content recorded to the internal recording media, the restrictive information including a first attribute for specifying a copyable count and a second attribute for specifying a restriction to be added every time copying is executed, the second attribute including an attribute A and an attribute B; and adding, every time the content recorded to the internal recording media is copied within a range of the copyable count specified by the first attribute, a restriction specified by the second attribute to the content recorded to the internal recording media that provided a source of the copying, the content is copied without restriction if a copy count is within a copyable count specified by attribute A, and the content is copied with the restriction specified by the attribute B if a copy count is over the copyable count specified by the attribute A, the attribute A specifying whether or not there is a restriction on a period of time before the next copy is enabled, and the attribute B specifying the period of time before the next copy is enabled when the attribute A indicates that there is a restriction on the period of time before the next copy is enabled.