Patent ID: 8488947

Claim:
An information reproducing apparatus for reproducing reproduction information from a recording medium includes a plurality of pieces of reproduction information, a plurality of reproduction lists and a plurality of pieces of content information, each of the plurality of reproduction lists including different presentation control information which at least indicates whether or not a presentation of a piece of content information is limited, wherein the plurality of reproduction lists are adapted for controlling a manner of reproduction that is executed when reproducing the plurality of pieces of the reproduction information, and include a plurality of real reproduction lists corresponding to the plurality of pieces of the reproduction information, and a plurality of virtual reproduction lists for reproducing a part of the plurality of pieces of the reproduction information beyond a section of each piece of the reproduction information, a part of the plurality of pieces of the reproduction information corresponding to the real reproduction lists are able to be part of the plurality of pieces of the reproduction information corresponding to the virtual reproduction lists, wherein the content information indicates a content of a piece of the reproduction information that is be reproduced prior to the reproduction information, and is a representative image information corresponding to each of the plurality of pieces of the reproduction information which are controlled to be reproduced based on each of the reproduction lists, and wherein the information reproducing apparatus comprises a controlling device that presents, instead of the presentation of the piece of content information, prohibited reproduction list presence information which indicates the presence of the reproduction list corresponding to the piece of the content information to which the presentation is limited, when the presentation control information indicates that the presentation should be limited.