To provide, in an article providing system, an article in a style as close to an article heretofore provided on a space as possible with a copyright problem and a privacy related problem avoided.

Display restriction information indicating whether or not the display is possible is held in a newspaper article DB 43 for every component composing an article, based on the display restriction information when article information is provided, whether or not the article information is providable is determined. If providable, the article information is provided as it is, and, if not providable, information indicating to that effect is substituted for the article information and is provided. Thus, a component having problems in terms of copyright and privacy can be restricted so that it is not provided by component unit. More specifically, problems concerned with copyright and privacy can be solved.