System for managing rental access by a user to an audio or audiovisual work

System for managing a user's rental access to audio or audiovisual works, characterized in that it includes:

• means (1, 7) forming a rental server for making available to the user a catalog of work which can be selected for rental,
• means (7) for the user's selection of at least one work which he wishes to rent from the catalog of works;
• means (7) for writing to nomadic means (10) forming the medium for the user's digital storage of a copy of the work (OL1) selected by the user and authorization data (IAA1) for access to the work and copies of other works (OP1) not selected by the user but offered for rental, the access authorization data (IAA2) for these works being stored in means (14) forming a server for managing access authorization data;
• means (11) for reading the means forming the user medium (10), allowing access to the copy of the rented work (OL1), using the corresponding access authorization data (IAA1) written to the means forming the medium (10), and to the copies of the offered works (OD1), using corresponding access authorization data (IAA2) obtained directly or via the user from the means (14) forming the server for managing the access authorization data.