To make it possible to surely impose usage charge on user and to give usage right to user by preparing an inquiry for giving usage right to a user having no usage right of a literary work when the user requests to use the literary work.
A literary work processing means 105 extracts a literary work from a literary work storing means 103 in accordance with an inputted request and outputs the work to an output means 102. User's usage right information to the inputted work is compared with information related to the work to judge whether the user owns the usage right of the work or not. When the user does not own the usage right of the work, a copyright information inquiring means 106 prepares and issues an inquiry for providing the usage right of the work to the user. A charging information preparing means 107 prepares and issues charging information for the usage right to be provided to the user based on the inquiry. A charging report preparing means 108 imposes charge for the usage right on the user based on the charging information and sends a report of charging to a personal identification means 104.
YAMATARI KIMIYA
TANIKOSHI KOICHIRO
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