To decrease communication time in the case of editing moving picture contents including structuring information and utilizing the edited contents and to reduce a memory capacity required to store the moving picture contents at a receiver side.

Moving picture distribution servers 201, 202 of the moving picture distribution system 500 store moving picture contents and structuring information that is used for inter-system mutual transmission information and denotes the structure and contents of the moving picture within the moving picture distribution system 500. Moving picture view clients 301-303 and/or a moving picture distribution manager 101 transmit a request of editing the structuring information or the edited structural information to the moving picture distribution servers 201, 202 and the moving picture distribution servers 201, 202 reconfigure the moving picture contents on the basis of the edit request of the structuring information or the edited structuring information and distribute the reconfigured structural information.