Patent ID: 7725002

Claim:
A video content recording apparatus comprising: a storage device configured to store copyright-protected video content in an active or inactive state; a management module configured to manage information on video content that is transferred from a source apparatus and stored in the storage device, and the video content stored in the source apparatus; a recording module configured to record the video content transferred from the source apparatus having the video content in the active state to the storage device in the inactive state; an input module configured to be input that the video content is used after the transfer of the video content is completed; and to a control module configured to issue, to the source apparatus, a command for changing the state of the video content stored in the source apparatus to the inactive state based on the information on the video content managed by the management module when it is input that the video content is used, and to change the state of the video content stored in the storage device to the active state in response to changing of the state of the video content stored in the source apparatus to the inactive state.