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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2005
Hirofumi Tamori, Tokyo, JP;
Hirofumi Tamori, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Information processing apparatus and method, program and recording medium are provided. The information processing apparatus including a first generating section for editing tone data made up of a plurality of tracks, on the basis of an operation by a user, by using each data of the plurality of tracks, to generate tone data made up of the smaller number of tracks, the tone data being secondary copyrighted work with the tone data made up of the plurality of tracks being original copyrighted work; a second generating section for generating a use information track describing information which describing how data of each track of the tone data of the original copyrighted work is used in the tone data generated by the first generating section; and a setting section for setting first copyright information with a user who edited tone data of original copyrighted work specified as a copyright holder to the tone data generated by the first generating section and data of the use information track generated by the second generating section.