Patent ID: 8380046

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires information data selected from a plurality of pieces of information data; a selection unit that selects one of a plurality of different types of recording devices in accordance with an instruction from a user; a recording unit that records the selected information data acquired by the acquisition unit on the recording device selected by the selection unit; an output unit that outputs information to a display device; a control unit that controls the output unit, wherein if one of the plurality of recording devices is selected by the selection unit, the control unit controls the output unit to output to the display device first information relating to a recording device onto which the selected information data read from the selected recording device is permitted to be recorded among the plurality of recording devices other than the selected recording device in accordance with a copy control attribute of the selected information data acquired by the acquisition unit, a type of the selected recording device and types of the recording devices other than the selected recording device.