Patent ID: 7406177

Claim:
A recording medium, comprising: a lead-in area; a data recording area that is formed on an outer periphery side of the lead-in area and in which a plurality of pieces of content data is recorded; and a lead-out area formed on an outer periphery side of the data recording area, wherein first copyright management information and second copyright management information with which copyrights of the plurality of pieces of content data are managed are recorded at different positions whose secrecies are different from each other, any one of first copyright management information and second copyright management information is recorded in any one of said lead-in area and said lead-out area, the other copyright management information being recorded in the data recording area, a position of said data recording area providing lower secrecy than any one of said lead-in area and said lead-out area, and the first copyright management information and the second copyright management information are not related to encryption of the content data.