Image content providing method, image content providing system, image content providing apparatus, program storage medium stored with program providing image content, advertisement image providing apparatus, program storage medium stored with program providing advertisement image, image content reproducing apparatus, program storage medium stored with program reproducing image content, advertisement charge totalizing system, advertisement charge totalizing method and program storage medium stored with program totalizing advertisemtnt charge

An image content reproducing apparatus for reproducing an image content, said content reproducing apparatus comprising:

• image acquiring means for acquiring said image content and acquiring an advertisement image inserted to said image content;
• and
• image reproducing means having a function of reproducing said image content acquired by said image acquiring means and inserting said advertisement image to said image content based on an advertisement inserting condition data and reproducing thereof.

An advertisement charge charging method comprising the steps of:

• generating an advertisement providing log data constituting a history of providing an advertisement image when said advertisement image is provided and storing said advertisement image to an advertisement providing log database;
• and
• totalizing an advertisement charge charged to an owner of said advertisement image, an advertisement inserting charge distributed to an owner of said image content and an advertisement distributing charge distributed to the owner of said image content based on said advertisement providing log of said advertisement providing log database.

An advertisement charge totalizing system comprising:

• advertisement image transmitting means for providing an advertisement image, generating an advertisement providing log constituting a history of providing thereof and storing thereof to an advertisement providing log database;
• and
• charge totalizing means for totalizing an advertisement charge charged to an owner of said advertisement image, an advertisement inserting charge distributed to an owner of an image content and an advertisement distributing charge distributed to the owner of said image content based on said advertisement providing log.

A program storage medium stored with an image content providing program which is a program storage medium stored with an image content providing program for providing an image content, said program storage medium comprising:

• list forming means having a function of forming a title list constituting information of viewing said image content stored to said image content database and providing said title list;
• and
• image providing means having a function of inserting an advertisement image to said image content of said image content database and distributing thereof.

A program storage medium stored with an advertisement image providing program which is a program storage medium stored with an advertisement image providing program for providing an advertisement image, said program storage medium comprising:

• advertisement image selecting means for selecting said advertisement image to be provided from an advertisement image database;
• and
• advertisement image providing means having a function of providing said advertisement image selected by said advertisement image selecting means and generating an advertisement providing log constituting history information in providing said advertisement image.

A program storage medium stored with an image content reproducing program which is a program storage medium stored with an image content reproducing program for reproducing an image content, said program storage medium comprising:

• image acquiring means for acquiring said image content and acquiring an advertisement image to be inserted to said image content;
• and
• image reproducing means having a function of reproducing the image content acquired by said image acquiring means and inserting said advertisement image to said image content based on advertisement inserting condition data and reproducing thereof.

A program storage medium stored with an advertisement charge totalizing program which is a program storage medium stored with an advertisement charge totalizing program having a function of totalizing an advertisement charge, said program storage medium comprising:

• advertisement image transmitting means for providing an advertisement image, generating an advertisement providing log constituting a history of providing thereof and storing thereof to an advertisement providing log database;
• and
• charge totalizing mean for totalizing an advertisement charge charged to an owner of said advertisement image, an advertisement inserting charge distributed to an owner of said image content and an advertisement distributing charge distributed to the owner of said image content based on said advertisement providing log.