Managing confidential information

Abstract

An information processing apparatus, method, and program product for appropriately setting confidentiality of a target electronic document even when copied data is pasted into a document from an electronic document including confidential information, without limiting replication from an electronic document including confidential information depending on attributes of the target electronic document. Also provided is an information processing apparatus, method and program product that saves content data specified by the user and a label indicating the confidentiality of the electronic document including the content data in a clipboard; pastes the user-specified content data to a target electronic document; temporarily saves the label for the electronic document including the user-specified content data in a data table which stores electronic document labels, as a label for the target electronic document; checks the confidentiality of the target electronic document; and establishes or deletes the temporarily saved label.