Generation and use of user-selected scenes playlist from distributed digital content

A method comprising:

• receiving, using at least one server, a playlist and an identifier for an audio-video data file on a portable disc medium played by a remote player device, wherein the playlist comprises a list of time values from a timeline of the audio-video data file indicating a sequence of sampled clips from the audio-video data file selected at the remote player device in response to input from an input device;
• configuring the playlist so that the sequence of sampled clips can only be generated by a receiving node that is accessing an entire authorized copy of the audio-video data file from which the playlist was generated;
• serving the playlist and the identifier to a client node without data from the audio-video data file;
• generating a second audio-video data file using the at least one server, including content from the audio-video data file selected and arranged according to the playlist;
• and
• enabling, by the server, users that do not possess an original copy of the audio-video content to generate video clips including a portion of the audio-video content, subject to specified copyright restrictions on content of the video clips and subject to a restriction that total play time of the playlist is not longer than at least one of a specified percentage of the digital audio-video content file or a fixed maximum time.

A non-transitory computer-readable optical disc medium encoded with an audio-video data file and with an embedded application for generation of a playlist, wherein the disc medium is configured to automatically cause, in response to insertion of the disc medium into the media player device, display of a menu including at least one link inviting a user to create a playlist and the embedded application is configured, when executed in response to user selection of the link by a media player capable of producing an audio-video output signal from the audio-video data file, to cause the media player to generate a playlist comprising a list of time values from a timeline of the audio-video data file by user selection of at least one icon displayed concurrently with playing the audio-video data file overlying a display output of the audio-video data wherein the embedded application records a start one of the time values in response to user selection of a start one of the at least one icon and records a stop one of the time values in response to user selection of a stop one of the at least one icon, the playlist indicating a sequence of sampled clips from the audio-video data file subject to a restriction that total play time of the playlist is not longer than at least one of a specified percentage of the digital audio-video content file or a fixed maximum time, in response to input from a user input device in communication with the media player device, and to upload the playlist with an identifier for the audio-video data file to a server configured to permit generation of video clips including a portion of the audio-video content by users that do not possess an original copy of the audio-video content, subject to specified copyright restrictions on content of the video clips.

A system comprising:

• at least one server configured to store a playlist and an identifier for an audio-video data file a remote player device during play of an audio-video data file, wherein the playlist comprises a list of time values from a timeline of the audio-video data file indicating a sequence of sampled clips from the audio-video data file selected at the remote player device in response to input from an input device subject to a restriction that total play time of the playlist is not longer than at least one of a specified percentage of the digital audio-video content file or a fixed maximum time, and the server is configured to:
• publish the playlist and the identifier over a computer network for use in playing the sequence of sampled clips;
• configure the playlist so that the sequence of sampled clips can only be generated by a receiving node that is accessing an entire authorized copy of the audio-video data file from which the playlist was generated as an input for generating the sequence;
• serve the playlist and the identifier to a client node without data from the audio-video data file;
• serve an interface enabling uploading of additional audio or video data to the at least one server, and store the additional audio or video data in association with the playlist;
• and
• enabling, by the server, users that do not possess an original copy of the audio-video content to generate video clips including a portion of the audio-video content, subject to specified copyright restrictions on content of the video clips.