To provide a system for controlling the distribution and use of a digital work by using a digital, ticket.

An appropriate using right and a charge are attached to the digital work and they are stored inside a repository 1. The repository 2 starts a session by the repository 1, the repository 2 requests access to the digital work and the repository 1 checks the using right corresponding to the digital work and checks the permission of the access to the digital work. The repository 1 ends the session by an error message when the access is denied and the repository 1 transfers the digital work to the repository 2 when the access is permitted. When the digital work is transferred to the repository 2, the repositories 1 and 2 respectively generate charging information to a credit server and the illicit deceit of a charging processing is prevented by such double charge informing.