Patent ID: 8626670

Claim:
A method of acquiring digital rights to digital content to be burned to a CD, comprising: determining, by a computer, a first digital content set, at least one content attribute being associated with each member of the first digital content set; receiving, by the computer from a user, a selection of content from the first digital content set; determining, by the computer, a second digital content set comprising content selected from the first digital content set whose content attributes match content attributes of content from the first digital content set that have been selected by the user; determining, by the computer and in accordance with rules provided by the user, as a third digital content set, that content in the second digital content set for which digital rights management rights which enable the content to be burned to the CD are not currently possessed; receiving a user preference regarding obtaining digital rights for the third digital content set; automatically obtaining, by the computer, digital rights for at least a subset of the third digital content set based at least in part on the user preference; and transmitting, by the computer, the at least a subset of the third digital content set for which appropriate digital rights have been obtained to the user to enable the user to burn the at least a subset of the third digital content set to the CD.