Information processing apparatus and method, program and recording medium

An information processing method comprising:

• generating, for editing tone data including of a plurality of tracks, based on an operation by a user, by using each data of said plurality of tracks, to generate tone data including a smaller number of tracks, said tone data being secondary copyrighted work with said tone data including said plurality of tracks being original copyrighted work;
• generating a use information track describing information which describing how data of each track of said tone data of said original copyrighted work is used in said tone data generated;
• and
• setting first copyright information with the user who edited tone data of original copyrighted work specified as a copyright holder to said tone data generated and data of said use information track generated.

A computer program product embodied on a computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising:

• means for generating control, for editing tone data including a plurality of tracks, based on an operation by a user, by using each data of said plurality of tracks, to control generation of tone data including a smaller number of tracks, said tone data being secondary copyrighted work with said tone data including said plurality of tracks being original copyrighted work;
• means for controlling generation of a use information track describing information which describing how data of each track of said tone data of said original copyrighted work is used in said tone data generated by said first generating control;
• and
• means for setting control, for controlling setting of first copyright information with a user who edited tone data of original copyrighted work specified as a copyright holder to said tone data generated by said first generating control step and data of said use information track generated by said controlling generation.

An information processing apparatus comprising:

• a first generating unit for editing tone data including a plurality of tracks, based on an operation by a user, by using each data of said plurality of tracks, to generate tone data including a smaller number of tracks, said tone data being secondary copyrighted work with said tone data including said plurality of tracks being original copyrighted work;
• a second generating unit for generating a use information track describing information which describing how data of each track of said tone data of said original copyrighted work is used in said tone data generated by said first generating means;
• and
• a setting unit for setting first copyright information with the user who edited tone data of original copyrighted work specified as a copyright holder to said tone data generated by said first generating means and data of said use information track generated by said second generating means.