Patent ID: 8724966

Claim:
An AV data reproducing apparatus, comprising: an AV data reproducing section configured to reproduce AV data stored in a recording medium; a program executing section configured to execute a program stored in the recording medium; and an input section configured to acquire a manipulation input, to which a function of the AV data reproducing section is assigned, wherein the recording medium stores key control information indicating whether execution of a function assigned to the manipulation input is approved or not and the program in such a manner that the key control information and the program are correlated with each other, and said AV data reproducing apparatus further comprises: a control section configured to, in a case where the key control information stored in the recording medium indicates that execution of a function assigned to the manipulation input is not approved, (i) not execute the function assigned to the manipulation input and (ii) instruct the program executing section to execute only the program stored in the recording medium in such a manner as to be correlated with the key control information.