Patent ID: 8413258

Claim:
An optical information recording medium comprising: a user data area in which a user can record user data; and a management area which has information required to control a recording signal when data is recorded in the user data area, wherein the user data is recorded by laser light, and the management area includes: a recording format management area that has information for allowing an optical information recording device to perform an operation of determining the format of the data recorded in the user data area, converting the format into a predetermined signal form according to the determination result, and recording the data; a recording condition management area that has information for allowing the optical information recording device to control the recording conditions of the laser light when data is recorded in the user data area; and an authentication identification area that has information for allowing the optical information recording device to perform an operation of determining whether the optical information recording medium is authenticated by a third party, wherein the information for performing the operation which is included in the recording format management area, the information for controlling the recording conditions which is included in the recording condition management area, and the information for performing the determining operation which is included in the authentication identification area are recorded in forms selected from the group consisting of pit arrangement, a wobble provided in a guide grove, a land pre-pit, and a bar code, and at least one of the form of the information for performing the operation, the form of the information for controlling the recording conditions, or the form of the information for performing the determining operation is different from the other form(s) so that even when all of the data written in the recording area is copied to a different optical information medium, the data can be inhibited from being read from the different optical information recording medium.