JP2005122646A - Permission acquisition ease calculation device and method, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide support for obtaining permission by presenting a judgment index for whether or not to apply for permission to a person who tries to obtain permission when using content of another person.
Content right management means for managing content rights information, and permission procedure processing means for performing processing by mediating a series of permission procedures between a content use applicant and a right owner. , A permission procedure log management means for managing log information of a permission procedure between the content user applicant and the right holder, a rule management means for managing a calculation rule used for calculating the degree of permission acquisition, Permission acquisition ease calculating means for calculating the permission acquisition ease based on the calculation rule from the right information and the log information of the permission procedure is provided.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a technology for assisting acquisition of a license when a license for use of the content is not obtained from the right owner of the content.

  In recent years, content distribution services have been actively performed. And in order to be able to provide more information, the media cooperation system which can acquire information from another medium by operation of one medium is proposed (for example, refer nonpatent literature 1). According to this, when an end user tries to acquire content, information on other content registered in cooperation with the entire content or a part of the content is acquired together. Can do. This can be done in advance by a person who wants to transmit his / her content by linking the entire content or a part of the content and registering it in the system.

Sawase, Hirano, Ueno, Higashino, “Cross-Media Collaboration System Design”, IEICE General Conference, A-16-27, 2003

  The above prior art method requires an operation of linking own content to content of another person. At that time, it is important to obtain permission in advance for linking so as not to infringe the content right. At present, however, the rights of content are diversified, such as copyright, portrait rights, and publicity rights, making it difficult to understand who should obtain permission. In addition, it is often impossible to negotiate licenses because it is impossible to imagine how difficult it is to work with many rights holders and how much operation it will take.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to calculate the ease of obtaining a license regarding the use of content from the right owner of the content (hereinafter, the degree of permission acquisition ease). Thus, when content is used, it is intended to support permission acquisition work by providing an indication of permission possibility (determination index for whether or not to perform permission negotiation) from the right owner of the content.

  In the present invention, information related to content rights is managed so that rights information such as the number of rights owners, the names of rights owners, the attributes of rights owners, and license request destinations can be obtained. The license acquisition ease is calculated from the log and the content right information.

  In addition, when linking your content to other people's content, in addition to the rights information of other people's content and past permission application logs for other people's content, you can also use your own profile information Calculate the ease of acquisition.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to obtain information related to the right of content, and to confirm the degree of ease of obtaining the license before applying for obtaining the license. It is possible to present an index for judging whether or not to apply, and to assist in obtaining permission. For example, if there are two content candidates for use and only one of them is selected, compare the respective license acquisition easiness and apply for the license with higher license acquisition easiness It is possible to support permission acquisition work such as

  FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention. The content right management center 100, the content use desirer terminal 200, and the content right owner terminal 300 are connected via the communication network 400, and the content right information (CR) is transmitted to the content right management center 100. Are managed. The content entity may exist on another server.

  A content use applicant (EU) uses the terminal 200 to access the content right management center 100 via the communication network 400 and refers to the right information (CR) of the content to be used. When making a usage permission request, a content usage requester (EU) obtains a permission request destination from the content rights information (CR), and through the communication network 400 and the content rights management center 100, the rights owner (RH). A permission request is made to the terminal 300. In response to the permission request, the content right owner (RH) responds to the permission request by using the terminal 300 via the communication network 400 and the content right management center 100, and the terminal of the requesting content use applicant (EU). Reply to 200.

  FIG. 2 shows a configuration example of the content right management center 100 as a permission acquisition ease calculation device according to the present invention. The content right management center 100 includes content right management means 10, permission acquisition ease calculation means 20, permission procedure log management means 30, permission procedure processing means 40, rule management means 50, content right information database 60, permission acquisition ease calculation. It includes a rule database 70, a license procedure log database 80, a communication interface 90, and the like. This configuration is basically the same in the other embodiments described later.

  The content right management means 10 manages content right information (CR) in the content right information database 60. The content right information database 60 stores the right information such as the number of content right owners, the name of the right owner, the attribute of the right owner, and the license request destination. The license acquisition ease calculation means 20 calculates the license acquisition ease from the content right information and past license procedure log information based on the license acquisition ease calculation rule. The license procedure log management unit 30 manages log information of the license procedure in the license procedure log database 80. The license procedure log database 80 stores log information of past license procedures. The permission procedure processing means 40 executes a content use permission procedure between the content use applicant (EU) and the content right owner (RH), and the log information (response of the right owner, permission permission, negotiation time, etc.) ) Is stored in the permission procedure log database 80. The rule management means 50 manages the permission acquisition ease calculation rules in the permission acquisition ease calculation rule database 70. The license acquisition ease calculation rule database 70 stores calculation rules such as a human easy degree, a temporal easy degree, and a probabilistic easy degree. The communication interface 90 controls transmission / reception of data, commands, and the like to / from the content use desirer terminal 200 and the right owner terminal 300 via the communication network 400.

  FIG. 3 shows an operation sequence diagram according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 3, the communication interface 90 in the content right management center 100 is omitted.

  A content use applicant (EU) transmits a content name to be used to the content right management center 100 via the communication network 400. In the content right management center 100, the communication interface 90 receives the content name and passes it to the content right management means 10. The content right management means 10 searches the content right information database 60 using the content name as a key, and specifies the right information of the specified content (number of right owners, right owner name, right owner attribute, permission request destination, etc.) ) To get. Then, the rights information (number of rights owners, rights owner name, rights owner attributes, permission request destination, etc.) and content name are passed to the permission acquisition ease calculation means 20.

  The permission acquisition ease calculation means 20 passes the content name to the permission procedure log management means 30 and requests a past permission procedure log. The license procedure log management unit 30 searches the license procedure log database 80 using the content name as a key, and returns the license procedure log of the designated content to the license acquisition ease calculation unit 20. In the permission procedure log, past negotiation results between the content use applicant (EU) and the right owner (RH) are recorded. Further, the permission acquisition ease calculation means 20 requests the rule management means 50 for a permission acquisition ease calculation rule. The rule management means 50 acquires a calculation rule from the permission acquisition ease calculation rule database 70 and returns it to the permission acquisition ease calculation means 20. As will be described later, the calculation rules include a calculation rule for a human easy frequency, a calculation rule for a temporal easy frequency, a calculation rule for a probabilistic easy frequency, and the like.

  The license acquisition ease calculation means 20 calculates the possibility of acquiring a license for use of the specified content from the license procedure log based on part or all of the license acquisition ease calculation rules, and obtains the license acquisition ease. To the content use applicant (EU). At the same time, content rights information (number of rights owners, rights owner name, rights owner attributes, permission request destination, etc.) is also presented to the content use applicant (EU).

  The content use applicant (EU) determines whether or not to apply for permission with reference to the ease of acquiring the license, and when applying for permission, refers to the right information of the content and holds the right through the content right management center 100. Apply for permission to the person (RH).

  In the content right management center 100, the permission procedure processing means 40 mediates a permission procedure regarding content usage between all content use applicants (EU) and the right owner (RH) via the communication interface 90. To do. The permission procedure processing means 40 transmits a permission request from the content use applicant (EU) to the right owner (RH), and sends a response to the permission request from the right owner (RH) as the content use applicant. Return to (EU). Then, the permission procedure processing means 40 records the result of a series of negotiation procedures between the content use applicant (EU) and the right owner (RH) in the permission procedure log database 80 as a permission procedure log. At this time, a series of negotiation procedures is recorded in the permission procedure log database 80 with a unique ID (permission procedure ID).

  FIG. 4 is a configuration example of the content right information database 60, and stores the right owner name, right owner attribute, and permission request destination as the right information regarding the content A.

  FIG. 5 shows a configuration example of the license procedure log database 80. As an example of a past license procedure log related to the content A, a license procedure ID for uniquely identifying the license procedure, whether permission from each right owner is permitted or not, and FIG. The response, the finally determined permission determination result, and the number of days required for permission negotiation are accumulated. In the example of FIG. 5, the permission permission determination result is allowed only when all permission responses from the respective right owners are permitted.

  The license acquisition ease calculation means 20 includes the rights information acquired by the content right management means 10 from the content right information database 60 and the license procedure acquired by the license procedure log management means 30 from the license procedure log database 80 for the specified content. The license acquisition ease is calculated from the log as follows. Here, it is assumed that the rule setting means 50 gives a permission acquisition ease calculation rule as shown in FIGS.

The permission acquisition ease calculation means 20 counts the number of content right owners from the right information acquired by the content right management means 10, and obtains the human ease degree according to the rules as shown in FIG. Further, the license acquisition ease calculation means 20 obtains an average value of the days required for the license negotiation from the license procedure log of the content acquired by the license procedure log management means 30, and calculates the time according to the rule as shown in FIG. Find the appropriate ease. Further, from the permission determination result, the following expression: license acquisition probability (%) = number of permitted permission determination results / total number of permission procedure logs × 100
Is used to determine the permission acquisition probability, and the probabilistic ease is determined according to the rules shown in FIG.
Then, the permission acquisition ease calculation means 20 considers the sum of the human ease number, the temporal ease number, and the probabilistic ease number as the permission acquisition degree of the content.

  As an example, when obtaining the permission acquisition degree for the content A having the right information as shown in FIG. 4 and the permission procedure log as shown in FIG. 5, it is as follows. From FIG. 4, since the number of right holders is 3 (persons), the human ease number is obtained as “8” from the rule of FIG. Further, the average number of negotiation days is (4 + 6 + 9 + 6 + 5) / 5 = 6 (days) when the average number of days required for the negotiation is calculated from FIG. Desired. Further, since the permitted number of permission permission determination results in FIG. 5 is “3”, the permission acquisition probability is 3/5 × 100 = 60 (%). From the rule in FIG. “6” is required. Therefore, the permission acquisition ease is calculated as 8 + 6 + 6 = 20.

  The content use applicant obtains the permission acquisition ease from the content right management center 100 for each desired content, and compares the value to determine whether or not to apply for the use of the content. It can be used as a judgment index.

  In the above example, since the maximum value of the license acquisition ease is 30, the obtained license acquisition ease may be divided by 30 and multiplied by 100. In that case, the license acquisition ease of the content A is about 67%.

  The data of the permission procedure log shown in FIG. 5 is an example. In addition, it has been discussed between the content use applicant (EU) and the right owner (RH), such as costs necessary for negotiation. It is possible to record it in the permission procedure log and use it as one of the elements when calculating the permission acquisition ease. Accordingly, it is conceivable to use calculation rules other than those shown in FIGS. The calculation of the permission acquisition ease may be performed using only a part of the rules as necessary.

  FIG. 9 is an operation sequence diagram according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The configuration of the content right management center 100 in this embodiment is the same as that in the first embodiment (FIG. 2). The second embodiment is an example of a case where a content use applicant (EU) wants to link his own content to another person's content.

  An example of the configuration of the permission procedure log database 80 used in this embodiment is shown in FIG. This is an extension of the configuration example shown in FIG. 5, and a profile related to content owned by a content user (EU) is added to the permission procedure log. When making a permission request, the content use applicant (EU) sends the content profile information (content genre, product name used in the content, name of performer in the content, keyword related to the content, etc.) ) To the right holder (RH) and negotiate whether the content can be linked with the right owner's content. Accumulate.

  As shown in FIG. 9, when a content user (EU) specifies a content to be linked to his content (content to be used), along with the content name, the profile information of his content is displayed. The data is sent to the content right management center 100 via the communication network 400. In the content right management center 100, the communication interface 90 receives the content name and profile information and passes them to the content right management means 10. The content right management means 10 searches the content right information database 60 using the content name as a key, and specifies the right information of the specified content (number of right owners, right owner name, right owner attribute, permission request destination, etc.) ) To get. Then, the content right management means 10 passes the content profile information of the content use applicant (EU) to the permission acquisition ease calculation means 20 together with the content name to be used and the right information of the content to be used.

  The permission acquisition ease calculation means 20 passes the content name and profile information to the permission procedure log management means 30 and requests a past permission procedure log. The license procedure log management means 30 searches the license procedure log database 80 using the content name and profile information as a key, and acquires only the license procedure log having the specified content and the specified profile information. Returned to the acquisition ease calculation means 20. The license acquisition ease calculation means 20 requests the rule management means 50 for a necessary permission acquisition ease calculation rule, and the rule management means 50 calculates a calculation rule (human easy) from the permission acquisition ease calculation rule database 70. Frequency calculation rules, temporal easy frequency calculation rules, probabilistic easy frequency calculation rules, etc.) are acquired and returned to the permission acquisition ease calculation means 20.

  The license acquisition easiness calculation means 20 applies the license acquisition easiness calculation rules (for example, FIG. 6 to FIG. 8) based on the license procedure log acquired from the license procedure log management means 30 to increase the license acquisition easiness. Calculate and present the degree of permission acquisition along with the content right information to the content user applicant (EU). Here, by adding the profile bond report to the key for obtaining the license procedure log, it is possible to calculate only the log of the license procedure related to linking with content having a similar profile in the past, for example, Further, it is possible to obtain a calculation result with higher accuracy with respect to the temporal ease frequency and the stochastic ease frequency.

  The content use applicant (EU) determines whether or not to apply for permission with reference to the ease of acquiring the license, and when applying for permission, refers to the right information of the content and holds the right through the content right management center 100. A permission request is made to the person (RH). In this case, as described above, the content use applicant (EU) presents the profile information of his / her content along with the content name to be used to the right owner (RH).

  In the content right management center 100, the permission procedure processing means 40 mediates a permission procedure regarding content usage between all content use applicants (EU) and the right owner (RH) via the communication interface 90. To do. The permission procedure processing means 40 transmits a permission request (content name, profile information) from the content use applicant (EU) to the right owner (RH), and responds to the permission request from the right owner (RH). The response is sent back to the content user (EU). The license procedure processing means 40 records the result of a series of negotiation procedures between the content use applicant (EU) and the right owner (RH) in the license procedure log database 80 as a license procedure log. As shown in FIG. 10, the content profile information of the content use applicant (EU) is also recorded as permission procedure log data.

  According to the present embodiment, when linking contents owned by both the content use applicant (EU) and the right owner (RH), the profile of the content owned by the content use applicant (EU) The content use applicant (EU) can know the ease of obtaining permission from the rights owner (RH) in consideration of the influence of information.

  A configuration example of the permission procedure log database 80 used in this embodiment is shown in FIG. This is an example in which the configuration example of the permission procedure log database 80 shown in FIG. 10 is further expanded. As data for specifying a part of the content desired by a content user (EU), it is included in a plurality of frames of video. A column for specifying a time interval and a rectangular position for specifying an object to be extended is added. The profile used here is a profile related to a specific part of content owned by a content user (EU). Since the operation sequence in the third embodiment is basically the same as that in the second embodiment, a description thereof will be omitted.

  According to the present embodiment, the content right management center 100 can manage the permission procedure in units of subjects and objects in the content. Etc. can be calculated. Therefore, for example, for an actor who appears in a scene in the content of the rights owner (RH), the movie information introduced in the scene in the content owned by the content user (EU) Even in the case of linking, the rights holder (RH) considering the influence of the content profile information owned by the content user (EU) regarding the permission procedure for linking to the actor in the content The user who wants to use the content (EU) can know the ease of obtaining permission from the user.

  It should be noted that part or all of the processing functions of each unit in the content right management center 100 shown in FIG. 2 can be configured by a computer program, and the program can be executed using the computer to implement the present invention. Needless to say, the processing sequence of the operation sequence shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. 9 can be constituted by a computer program, and the program can be executed by the computer. In addition, a computer-readable recording medium such as an FD, MO, ROM, memory card, CD, or the like is stored in the computer. In addition, the program can be recorded and stored on a DVD, a removable disk, etc., and the program can be distributed through a network such as the Internet.

It is a system configuration figure of an embodiment of the present invention. It is a block diagram of the Example of the content right management center by this invention. It is a processing sequence diagram of Example 1 of the present invention. It is an example of the right information of the content A. 6 is an example of a permission procedure log related to content A in the first embodiment. It is an example of a calculation rule of human easy frequency. It is an example of the calculation rule of a time ease frequency. It is an example of a calculation rule for probabilistic ease. It is a processing sequence diagram of Example 2 of the present invention. 12 is an example of a permission procedure log related to content A in the second embodiment. 10 is an example of a permission procedure log related to content A in the third embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Content right management means 20 Permission acquisition ease calculation means 30 Permission procedure log management means 40 Permission procedure processing means 50 Rule management means 60 Content right information database 70 Permission acquisition ease calculation rule database 80 Permission procedure log database 90 Communication interface 100 Content Rights management center 200 Content use applicant terminal 300 Rights owner terminal 400 Communication network

Claims (7)

A license acquisition easiness calculation device in a system that obtains permission from the right owner of the content when using the content of another person,
Content rights management means for managing content rights information;
A licensing procedure processing means for mediating a series of licensing procedures between the content applicant and the right holder,
A licensing procedure log management means for managing log information of a licensing procedure between the content use applicant and the right owner;
Rule management means for managing calculation rules used for calculating the degree of permission acquisition;
Permission acquisition ease calculating means for calculating the permission acquisition ease based on the calculation rule from the content right information and the log information of the permission procedure;
An apparatus for calculating the degree of ease of obtaining permission, comprising: In the permission acquisition ease calculation device according to claim 1,
The license procedure log management means manages the profile information of the content to be linked with other content of the person who wishes to use the content as log information of the license procedure,
The permission acquisition ease calculation means calculates the permission acquisition ease based on the calculation rule from the rights information of the other content and the permission procedure log information of the other content having the profile information.
An apparatus for calculating the degree of permission acquisition that is characterized by the above. In the permission acquisition ease calculation device according to claim 2,
The permission acquisition log calculating device characterized in that the permission procedure log information is linked by specifying a part of the other person's content and a part of the content to be linked to the other person's content. A method for calculating a degree of permission acquisition in a system that obtains permission from the right owner of the content when using the content of another person,
Manage the calculation rules used to calculate the license acquisition ease, manage content rights information,
Processes a series of licensing procedures between the content user and the rights owner, and manages log information of the licensing procedures between the content user and the rights holder,
A permission acquisition ease calculation method, wherein the permission acquisition ease is calculated based on the calculation rule from the content right information and the permission procedure log information. In the method of calculating permission acquisition ease according to claim 4,
Manage the profile information of the content that you want to link with the content of others who want to use the content as log information for the licensing procedure,
A license acquisition ease calculation method, characterized in that a license acquisition ease is calculated based on a calculation rule from rights information of other content and permission procedure log information of another content having the profile information. In the method for calculating the degree of permission acquisition according to claim 5,
A permission acquisition ease calculation method, wherein the permission procedure log information is specified by specifying a part of the other person's content and a part of the content to be linked to the other person's content.   A program for causing a computer to execute the processing of the permission acquisition ease calculation method according to any one of claims 4 to 6.

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