Patent ID: 7110543

Claim:
A content management system in which a set of usage rules of content under management of a content management terminal are converted and temporarily moved to an intermediate system, and then moved to and converted by the same content management terminal or another content management terminal, wherein the set of usage rules of the content comprises at least one usage rule, and the at least one usage rule is either relevant or irrelevant to an intermediate system, the content management system comprising: the content management terminal; and a usage rule holding region operable to temporarily hold any of usage rules which are not relevant to the intermediate system, wherein the content management terminal includes: a content management section operable to manage the content; a right management section operable to manage the set of usage rules of the content; a determination section operable to determine whether usage rules, included in the set of usage rules of the content, are relevant or irrelevant to the intermediate system; a usage rule moving section operable to (i) convert, to a format of the intermediate system, and move, to a region of the intermediate system, from among the set of usage rules of the content, at least any of the relevant usage rules which are determined by the determination section, and (ii) move, to the usage rule holding region, which is different than the region of the intermediate system, from among the set of usage rules of the content, at least any of the irrelevant usage rules which are determined by the determination section; a content moving section operable to move the content under management of the content management section to the intermediate system, and the content management terminal, to which the relevant usage rules of the content are moved from the intermediate system, is operable to acquire the set of usage rules of the content based on at least one of any usage rule of the content moved from the intermediate system and any usage rule of the content held in the usage rule holding region.