JP2007287249A - Content copy result management system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manage copy result of content recorded in a recording medium, and to fairly distribute remuneration in remuneration for audio home recording to a copyright holder as a result. <P>SOLUTION: In the content copy result management system, when content recorded on an audio CD 11 is copied to a CD-R 12, content information processing program D transmits ISRC recorded on the audio CD to a content information management device E, the content information management device E transmits a music name corresponding to received ISRC to a content copy result management device F through the content information processing program D or directly, the content copy result management device manages the repeated copying for each music name, and royalty of content recorded on the audio CD can be distributed to the copyright holder based on the number of times of copy for each music name managed by the content copy result management device. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a system for managing the copy performance of content recorded on a recording medium such as a compact disc (CD).

In the private recording guarantee system, information recording media such as MD (MiniDisc) and audio CD-R (Compact Disc-Recordable) and information recording / playback devices are available for copying content from recording media such as audio CDs. Sometimes a deposit is charged, and a copyright management organization distributes the deposit to the copyright holder of the recording medium of the copy source. As a related technique, for example, Patent Document 1 below discloses a method for managing the copyright of digital content on a network. Patent Document 2 below discloses a method in which a user obtains related information of content recorded on a medium from a server on a network.
JP 2001-34666 A (abstract) JP 10-116472 A (abstract)

  However, there is no means to manage whether the contents such as audio CDs have been copied privately, and the distribution of deposits in the above-mentioned private recording guarantee system is mainly based on the past sales record of the recording medium of the copy source. Since it is calculated on the basis of this, sales results and private copy results do not always correspond, and the method of distributing deposits is unclear and problematic. In addition, there is a request for the copyright holder to know how much of his / her content has been copied.

  In view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, the present invention can manage the copy performance of contents recorded on a recording medium such as a compact disc (CD) and, in turn, guarantee the copyright in the private recording guarantee system to the copyright holder. An object is to provide a content copy performance management system that can be distributed fairly.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is a content copy performance management system for managing a copy performance when a user copies content recorded on a first recording medium to a second recording medium,
A user terminal from which the user copies the content recorded on the first recording medium to the second recording medium;
A content information management device for managing content identification information recorded in the first recording medium;
A copy record management device that centrally manages the copy record of the content recorded in the first recording medium for each piece of content specifying information to be copied and managed, can be connected via a network;
When the content recorded on the first recording medium is copied to the second recording medium, the user terminal uses the content identification information recorded on the first recording medium as the content. To the information management device,
The content information management device transmits the content identification information or the content identification information of the copy performance management target corresponding to the content identification information to the copy performance management device via the user terminal or directly,
The copy record management apparatus manages the number of copies for each content identification information or for each content specifying information.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is a content copy record management system for managing a copy record when a user copies content recorded on a first record medium to a second record medium,
A user terminal from which the user copies the content recorded on the first recording medium to the second recording medium;
A copy record management device that centrally manages the copy record of the content recorded in the first recording medium can be connected via a network;
When the content recorded on the first recording medium is copied to the second recording medium, the user terminal displays the content identification information recorded on the first recording medium as the copy record. To the management device,
The copy performance management apparatus manages the number of copies for each content identification information or for each piece of content specifying information to be managed for copy performance corresponding to the content identification information.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to accurately grasp the results of the user's private copy of the content recorded on the first recording medium, and it has been applied to the content copy performance management of the private recording guarantee system. In this case, the actual privately copied record can be applied to the distribution of the deposit, so that a fair distribution is possible.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first embodiment of a content copy performance management system according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a specific configuration and processing of the system of FIG.

  In the system shown in FIG. 1, the identification information of the content recorded on the copy source information recording medium A is managed by individual sales companies of the copy source information recording medium A, but is concentrated by an industry group or the like. It is assumed that they are not managed in a controlled manner. For this reason, the system shown in FIG. 1 manages that the content recorded on the copy source information recording medium A is privately copied to the copy destination information recording medium B or the information recording / reproducing apparatus C by the user. To this end, a content information processing program D for processing content identification information and a content information management apparatus for retrieving content identification information to be copied from the content identification information or content identification information and providing the content information processing program D to the content information processing program D E and a content copy result management apparatus F that centrally manages copy results for each piece of content identification information or content specific information to be managed for copy results are connected via a network G.

  Here, when a user copies content from the copy source information recording medium A to the copy destination information recording medium B or the information recording / reproducing apparatus C, it is defined that copying cannot be performed unless the content information processing program D is used. . Further, the content information management device E is provided for each sales company of the copy source information recording medium A, and the content copy performance management device F is an industry group that summarizes a plurality of sales companies of the copy source information recording medium A. Established in copyright management organizations such as

  An example of the copy source information recording medium A is a reproduction-only CD in which content such as audio is recorded, and an example of the copy destination information recording medium B is a CD-R. Examples of the copy destination information recording / reproducing apparatus C include those having a copy destination recording medium inside an MD player, a portable music player with a built-in HDD (hard disk drive), or the like. The content information processing program C detects content identification information for identifying content privately copied by the user from the information recording medium A as a copy source, and the content identification information is transmitted via the network G to the content information management apparatus. The content identification information transmitted to the content information management apparatus E in response to the content identification information is received, and the received content identification information is transmitted to the content copy record management apparatus F. Examples of the location where the content information processing program D is stored include a user terminal such as a PC, a copy destination information recording / reproducing apparatus C such as an HDD built-in audio player, and a copy source information recording medium A such as a CD.

  The content information management device E is a system that searches the content identification information to be managed for copying results based on the content identification information transmitted from the content information processing program D and provides the content information processing program D with the content identification information. The content copy record management device F receives the content identification information subject to copy record management from the content information processing program D, increments the number of copies for each piece of the content identification information, and stores it. This is a device for managing the content copying results.

  A specific configuration and processing of the system of FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG. The copy source information recording medium A is the audio CD 11, the copy destination information recording medium B is the CD-R 12, and the content information processing program D is stored in the PC 13 which is a user terminal. The audio CD 11 stores a content a composed of a plurality of music data 1, 2, 3,..., And each music data for each of the plurality of music data 1, 2, 3,. ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) is recorded as a subcode as information for identifying the ID. In addition to the content information processing program D, the PC 13 also records a content copy program 14 for copying music data of a copy source information recording medium A such as an audio CD 11 to a copy destination information recording medium B such as a CD-R 12. Has been.

  In addition, in each content information management device E, ISRC is recorded as content identification information and a song name is recorded as content specifying information for each piece of music data 1, 2, 3,... ing. Furthermore, the content copy performance management apparatus F manages the number of copies for each song name as content specifying information.

  In this configuration, a process when copying music data selected by the user from the audio CD 11 to the CD-R 12 will be described. Here, one content a composed of a plurality of pieces of music data 1, 2, 3,... Is recorded on the audio CD 11, and of these, the music data 1, 2 are copied to the CD-R 12. First, in order to specify music data that the user wants to copy privately, when the recording order (the number of music) is input to the content information processing program D (step 1-1), the content information processing program D The ISRC of the music data (in FIG. 2, ISRC = YY1 of the music data 1 of the content a and ISRC = YY2 of the music data 2 of the content a) is extracted from the audio CD 11 (step 1-2), and the extracted ISRC is the content information. It transmits to the management apparatus E through the network G (step 1-3). Based on the received ISRC, the content information management device E searches and specifies the music names (the music name of the music data 1 of the content a = XX1 and the music name of the music data 2 of the content a = XX2 in FIG. 2) ( Step 1-4), the specified music titles XX1, XX2 are transmitted to the content information processing program D through the network G (Step 1-5).

  The content information processing program D transmits the song names XX1 and XX2 received from the content information management device E to the content copy performance management device F through the network G (step 1-6). The content copy performance management apparatus F stores and manages the number of copies for each of the music titles XX1 and XX2 received from the content information processing program D (step 1-7). In the processing of steps 1-5 and 1-6, the music titles XX1 and XX2 specified by the content information management device E are directly transmitted to the content copy record management device F without going through the content information processing program D. It may be.

  In this way, the title of the song that the user has privately copied from the audio CD 11 of the copy source is managed, and the deposit charged to the purchaser of the information recording medium B or the information recording / reproducing apparatus C of the copy destination is the copyright of the audio CD 11. Distribute to the right person. When content identification information such as ISRC of the content recorded on the copy source audio CD 11 is centrally managed by an industry group or the like, the content information management device E is omitted and content identification such as ISRC is performed. Information may be transmitted from the content information processing program D to the content copy record management device F, and the content copy record management device F may manage the number of copies for each piece of content identification information such as ISRC.

<Second Embodiment>
The second embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. In the second embodiment, an audio CD 11 is used as an information recording medium A as a copy source, a portable music player 15 with a built-in HDD as a copy destination, and a content information processing program D is stored in the PC 13 as a user terminal. Is saved. The content information processing program D also has a function of transferring the content a from the audio CD 11 to the portable music player 15 with a built-in HDD and copying it.

  In this configuration, an operation when copying music data selected by the user from the audio CD 11 on which a plurality of music data is recorded to the portable music player 15 with a built-in HDD will be described. When the user inputs the recording order (the number of the tune) to the content information processing program D in order to designate the music data to be copied privately (step 2-1), the content information processing program D Is extracted from the CD 11 (step 2-2), and the extracted ISRC is transmitted to the content information management apparatus E through the network G (step 2-3). The content information management device E searches and identifies the music name based on the received ISRC (step 2-4), and transmits the identified music name to the content information processing program D through the network G (step 2-5).

  The content information processing program D transmits the music title received from the content information management device E to the content copy performance management device F through the network G (step 2-6), and transfers it to the portable music player 15 with a built-in HDD (step 2-6). Step 2-7). Here, the content information processing program D transmits the music title to the content copy record management device F and then transfers it to the portable music player 15 with a built-in HDD, but this order is not defined in the present invention. The content copy record management device F stores and manages the number of copies for each song name received from the content information processing program D (step 2-8).

  In the embodiment described above, the audio CD 11 is stored in the copy source information recording medium A on which the content is recorded, the portable music player 15 with a built-in HDD in the copy destination information recording / reproducing apparatus C, and the copy destination information recording medium. Although CD-R12 was demonstrated to B as an example, it is not limited to this. As an example, copy source information recording media A and B include CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD, Blu-ray (registered trademark), HD-DVD, MD, VHS, D-VHS, laser disc, DVC, MD. The present invention can be applied to various content information recording media such as disks and semiconductor memories, and the information recording / reproducing apparatus C as a copy destination can reproduce and record various content information such as MD players, DVD players, DVD recorders, and semiconductor memory players. Applicable to the device.

It is a block diagram which shows 1st Embodiment of the content copy performance management system which concerns on this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the specific structure and process of the system of FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the specific structure and process of the content copy performance system of 2nd Embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

11 Audio CD
12 CD-R
13 PC (information processing equipment)
14 Content Copy Program 15 HDD Built-in Portable Music Player (Information Recording / Reproducing Device)
A Copy source information recording medium B Copy destination information recording medium C Copy destination information recording / reproducing device D Content information processing program E Content information management device F Content copy performance management device G Network

Claims (2)

A content copy record management system for managing a copy record when a user copies content recorded on a first record medium to a second record medium,
A user terminal from which the user copies the content recorded on the first recording medium to the second recording medium;
A content information management device for managing content identification information recorded in the first recording medium;
A copy record management device that centrally manages the copy record of the content recorded in the first recording medium for each piece of content specifying information to be copied and managed, can be connected via a network;
When the content recorded on the first recording medium is copied to the second recording medium, the user terminal uses the content identification information recorded on the first recording medium as the content. To the information management device,
The content information management device transmits the content identification information or the content identification information of the copy performance management target corresponding to the content identification information to the copy performance management device via the user terminal or directly,
The copy record management apparatus is a content copy record management system that manages the number of copies for each content identification information or for each content specifying information. A content copy record management system for managing a copy record when a user copies content recorded on a first record medium to a second record medium,
A user terminal from which the user copies the content recorded on the first recording medium to the second recording medium;
A copy record management device that centrally manages the copy record of the content recorded in the first recording medium can be connected via a network;
When the content recorded on the first recording medium is copied to the second recording medium, the user terminal displays the content identification information recorded on the first recording medium as the copy record. To the management device,
The copy performance management apparatus is a content copy performance management system that manages the number of copies for each content identification information or for each piece of content identification information that is a copy performance management target corresponding to the content identification information.

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