System and method for digital rights management using advanced copy with issue rights, and managed copy tokens

An information recording medium to be played on a digital content player having a DRM agent to perform rights management operations on a digital content package, said recording medium comprising:

• at least a portion of digital content package;
• rights management instructions to be executed by said digital content player, the rights management instructions being associated with the digital content package and requesting rights management operations, the rights management operations include issuing rights to content;
• and
• information identifying supporting licenses associated with the digital content package for processing by the DRM agent for enabling said DRM agent to determine whether to permit the rights management operations requested by the rights management instructions.

An a digital content player having a DRM agent to perform rights management operations on a digital content package, the digital content player comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more memories operatively coupled to at least one of the one or more processors and storing insstrucions which, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause the at lease one of the one or more processors to:
• receive rights management instructions to be executed by said digital content player, the rights management instructions being associated with said digital content package;
• execute the rights management instructions, the rights management instructions requesting rights management operations and the rights management operations include issuing rights to content;
• and
• load supporting licenses associated with the digital content package for processing by said DRM agent;
• wherein said DRM agent determines whether to permit said rights management operations requested by the rights management instructions, according to said supporting licenses.