Patent ID: 8027936

Claim:
An apparatus for generating copyright information for a secondarily processed content obtained by performing secondary processing on an original content, comprising: a secondary processed substance acquiring unit that acquires an adaptation right that determines a rights expression of a secondary processing operation for the original content, from license information of the original content, and that acquires operations designated by a user from the rights expression of secondary processing determined by the adaptation right acquired, the license information of the original content including a present-status use right that determines a rights expression of an operation for the original content, the adaptation right, a secondary processing present-status use right that determines a rights expression of an operation for the secondarily processed content, and a secondary processing adaptation right that determines a rights expression of a secondary processing operation for the secondarily processed content; a default license information generating unit that obtains the secondary processing present-status use right and the secondary processing adaptation right for the operation acquired by the secondary processed substance acquiring unit, and generates default license information of the secondarily processed content that includes the present-status use right including a condition equal to a condition included in the obtained secondary processing present-status use right, the adaptation right including a condition equal to a condition included in the obtained secondary processing adaptation right, the secondary processing present-status use right including a condition equal to a condition included in the obtained secondary processing present-status use right, and the secondary processing adaptation right including a condition equal to a condition included in the obtained secondary processing adaptation right; and a license information editing unit that accepts selection of a desired rights expression by a user from the rights expressions of the default license information generated by the default license information generating unit to generate license information of the secondarily processed content from the selected rights expression.