Use condition violation check method and apparatus for work, and storage medium storing program for use condition violation check for work

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for checking use condition violation of work with which the illegal use of a literal work distributed through a network such as internet can be automatically detected. SOLUTION: An original work, in which transparent information including work identification information and user information is embedded, is provided for a user (110), and use conditions corresponding to the transparent information are stored in a managing database (120). A server using the work is detected (130). Then, the transparent information embedded in the work used by the server is acquired (140) and the use conditions corresponding to the transparent information embedded in the work is provided from the managing database so that it can be checked whether the use of the work due to the server violates the use conditions or not (150).