Title of Invention

SYSTEM FOR CHARGING ROYALTY OF COPYRIGHTS IN DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA BROADCASTING AND METHOD THEREOF

Abstract

Disclosed is a system for charging royalty of copyrights in digital multimedia broadcasting and a method thereof. A receiving party terminal, which receives contents of music and image under control of the DMB provider's computer, stores contents on air if a start operation for recording is selected by a user's key operation or it is reservation time to start the record, and generates and outputs a royalty data of copyrights which is basic information of the copyrights fee of the stored contents to the royalty manager's computer if an end operation for recording is selected by a user's key operation, or it is reservation time to terminate the record. A royalty manager's computer calculates the copyrights fee to be paid by each user on a basis of the royal data transmitted from the receiving party terminal and transmits the calculated copyrights fee information to the DMB provider's computer. A DMB provider's computer charges each user copyrights fee on a basis of the calculated copyrights fee received from the royalty manager's computer, and provides a part of profit for the royalty manager's computer as a service charge of the calculated royalty information.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for charging royalty of copyrights in digital multimedia broadcasting and method thereof, more particularly to a system for charging royalty of copyrights in digital multimedia broadcasting and method thereof which recognize automatically a user's storage to charge royalty when the user receiving the digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) stores contents of music and image etc., through an exclusive receiving party terminal. 2. Description of the Related Art Performance of a digital multimedia broadcasting is drawing near which provides various multimedia signals of high definition images and high grade music in a digital form to a fixed receiver, a portable receiver or a receiver for vehicle. The digital multimedia broadcasting provides high grade broadcasting of a CD or DVD level through a personal digital assistant (PDA) or a terminal in a vehicle even when it is moving. For methods for providing the broadcasting, there are three systems which are a system A, a system Dh and a system E. The system A obeys a standard of a European digital broadcasting (OFDM: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) of a digital satellite broadcasting and a ground wave DMB. The system Dh has a mixture method accepting a satellite DMB on a basis of the ground wave DMB. The system E adopts a method of a code division multiplexing (CDM) which is almost identical to the code division multiple access (CDMA). This digital media broadcasting can be provided as a ground wave DMB and a satellite DMB as mentioned later. The ground wave DMB performs the multimedia broadcasting for a moving terminal by using a VHF channel No.12 which is currently on an empty state. When a channel is divided into 3 blocks, two video channels per a block are expected (or three to four audio channels per one video channel are expected.) and the ground wave DMB is mainly for vehicles and aimed at free broadcasting. Differently, the satellite DMB uses a satellite, and users in a city with a low receiving rate receive the broadcasting by using a relay called as Gap filler. Approximately, this satellite DMB has a service plan with total 39 channels comprising 11 video channels, 25 audio channels and 3 data channels, and aims at a low price service. However, the above mentioned digital multimedia broadcasting service does not have a system for charging royalty of copyrights, so that this service is very likely to cause problems among on-line provider supplying contents through Internet, and copyrights owners and users, and it will be a similar problem to copyrights conflict. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION To solve the above-indicated problems, it is, therefore, an object of the present invention to provide a system for charging royalty of copyrights in digital multimedia broadcasting and method thereof which recognize automatically users' storage to charge royalty when the users receiving the digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) store contents of music and image etc., through an exclusive receiving party terminal. To achieve the above object, the system for charging royalty of copyrights in digital multimedia broadcasting according to the present invention comprises a DMB provider's computer for broadcasting various contents, through a satellite or a relay, and for charging each user royalty of copyrights on a basis of calculation information according to storage of contents performed by users, who receive the digital multimedia broadcasting, from a royalty manager; a receiving terminal for displaying various contents being transmitted under control of the DMB provider's computer, and automatically generating royalty data of copyrights as a result of a storage in case when the user performs storing contents on air by storing key or reservation function by reservation key,and transmitting the generated royalty date to the royalty manager's computer through a transmission network (return channel); and a royalty manager's computer for receiving the automatically generated royalty data according to storage of contents by users from the receiving terminal through a transmission network and calculating the royalty, which each user should pay, on a basis of the royalty data received from the receiving terminal, and transmitting the calculated royalty information through the transmission network to the DMB provider's computer. In addition, a method of charging royalty of copyrights in digital multimedia broadcasting comprising the steps of: 1) transmitting contents from the DMB provider's computer through a satellite or a relay to each of receiving terminals; 2) determining if a start of record is selected by a user's key operation in the receiving terminal for receiving the contents transmitted under control of the DMB provider's computer; 3) storing the contents if the start operation for recording is selected by the user's key operation or it is reservation time to start the record, and for preparing to generate a royalty data of copyrights; 4) determining if an end operation for recording is selected by the user's key operation in the receiving terminal storing contents on air, or it is reservation time to terminate the record; 5) generating royalty data, basic information of royalty of the stored contents, by the receiving terminal, if the end of the record is selected by the user's key operation or it is reservation time to terminate the record, and for transmitting the generated royalty data to the royalty manger's computer through a transmission network (return channel) ; 6) calculating the copyrights fee to be paid by each user by the royalty manager's computer receiving the royalty data from the receiving terminal and for transmitting the calculated copyrights fee information through the transmission network to the DMB provider's computer; and 7) controlling to charge each user copyrights fee by the DMB provider's computer on a basis of the calculated copyrights fee information received from the royalty manager's computer, and for providing a part of profit for the royalty manager's computer as a service charge of the calculated royalty information. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The above objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which: Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing schematically a structure of a system for charging royalty of copyrights in the digital multimedia broadcasting according to the present invention; Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing a structure of the receiving party terminal in Fig. 1 in detail; Fig. 3 is a block diagram showing a structure of a royalty manager's computer; and Fig. 4 is a sequence diagram showing in detail a process of a method of charging royalty. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT A preferred embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing schematically a structure of a system for charging royalty of copyrights in the digital multimedia broadcasting according to the present invention; As shown in the drawing, the DMB provider's computer 100 controls to transmit various contents of music and image etc., through a satellite or a relay to each of the receiving party terminals 200 according to service of the satellite DMB or the ground wave DMB, and the computer 100 receives information of the calculated copyrights fee, which should be paid by users having performed the storage of contents into the receiving party terminal 200, from the royalty manger's computer 300 after the broadcasting, and also controls to charge each user royalty of copyrights on a basis of the calculated copyrights fee information provided by the royalty manager's computer 300. Meantime, it is preferred that the above mentioned DMB provider's computer 100 controls the charging process when the computer charges each user royalty of copyrights on a basis of the calculated copyrights fee information from the royalty manager's computer 300. However, this is not a limitation of this invention. A separate agency who deals with a fee may charge it. The receiving party terminal 200 displays various contents of music and image being transmitted under control of the DMB provider's computer 100, and automatically generates royalty data of copyrights as a result of a storage when a user stores (records) contents of music and image etc. on air or with reservation, and transmits the generated royalty data to the royalty manager's computer 300 through a transmission network. That is, the user does not need to perform any separate operation for himself and the receiving party terminal 200 generates automatically royalty data of copyrights as a result of the storage of contents and transmits the data to the royalty provider's computer 300. Here, the royalty data, which is generated automatically by the receiving party terminal 200 as a result of the storage of contents of music and image to be transmitted to the royalty manager's computer 300, includes information of members, the start time, the end time, information of channels, information of contents which have been saved, and depending on a requirement of the DMB providers, items which are included in the royalty data can be changed. In addition, the royalty data from the receiving party terminal 2 00 to the royalty manager's computer 300 is transmitted by using various return channel of two-way pager network, mobile Internet and transmission network for mobile telephone which performs transmission of short message and wireless Internet. In addition, in the receiving party terminal 200, storage of contents is allowed only on a specific channel which is transmitted under control of the DMB provider's computer 100 (the specific channel can be classified with a channel number or classified with a separate storage flag). That is, the storage of contents can be made only on a specific channel, similarly to a case where users should register to be allowed to watch the pay channel. In addition, the receiving party terminal 200 may adopt a Digital Copyright Management or DRM solution. In the DRM solution, when specific contents transmitted under control of the DMB provider's computer 100 is stored, the stored contents can be displayed only on the corresponding receiving party terminal 200. In the DRM solution, a method for encoding/decoding can be used on a basis of ID (telephone number, ESN) of the terminal. In addition, the receiving party terminal 200 may have an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) where users can inquire schedule of program on a desirable date through wireless Internet and they can select and reserve a desirable contents to perform storage. For example, when users connects a site providing the EPG through wireless Internet and search programs on a desirable date and time to select contents for a storage, the start time and the end time of a broadcasting of the contents are matched to perform a reservation automatically. In addition, when the receiving party terminal 200 stores more than a kind of contents by the operation of a user, each contents can be separately stored as a separate file with respect to separators between contents. For example, in case when a user wants to store ten contents of music for an hour by a reservation-record operation, not all the contents are stored into one of. MP3 file, but each of contents is respectively stored into each other MP3 files on a basis of separators which are provided between contents of the 10 contents being on the air for an hour. The royalty manager's computer 300 receives the automatically generated royalty data according to storage of contents by users from the receiving party terminal 2 00 through a transmission network and the computer calculates the royalty, which each user should pay, on a basis of the royalty data received from the receiving party terminal 2 00 and transmits the calculated royalty information through the transmission network to the DMB provider's computer 300. Here, the royalty manager's computer 300 receives a part of the copyrights fee paid by users who stored contents from the DMB provider's computer 100, as a service charge of royalty information. Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing a structure of the receiving party terminal 200 in Fig. 1 in detail. As shown in the drawing, a key input unit 210 outputs key signals of various functions of the receiving party terminal 2 00 (for example, key signal for operating power, and a record signal for storing contents of music and image), which is corresponding to operations of the user using the digital multimedia broadcasting service, to a control unit 220. The control unit 220 controls to receive various contents under control of the DMB provider's computer 100 through a broadcasting signal receiving unit 230 and controls to display the contents through a display unit 240 and an audio signal outputting unit 250, and controls to store the contents transmitted under control of the DMB provider's computer 100 in a storing unit 2 60 when a key signal for storing contents on air is inputted from the key input unit 210 or it is reservation time to start a record. In addition, the control unit 22 0 controls to generate royalty data of copyrights of contents, which has been stored according to an user's operation, by the royalty data generating unit 270 when a key signal for an end of the record is inputted from the key input unit 210 or it is time to finish the record and controls to transmit the generated royalty data of copyrights through the royalty data transmitting unit 280 to the royalty manager's computer 300. Here, the control unit 220 controls to terminate a transmission of royalty data if the control unit receives an acknowledge data (that is, ACK signal) from the royalty manager's computer 300 after royalty data, which is generated automatically by a royalty data generating unit 270, is transmitted to the royalty manager's computer 300 through the royalty data transmission unit 280. The control unit 220 controls to resend royalty data to the royalty manager's computer 300 predetermined number of times at intervals of predetermined times when data if the control unit has not received an acknowledge data from the royalty manager's computer 300. The broadcasting signal receiving unit 230 receives various contents of music and image through a satellite or a relay under control of the control unit 220. The display unit 240 displays image data, which is received through the broadcasting signal receiving unit 230, on a screen under control of the control unit 220, and displays an operation state of the receiving party terminal 200 on the screen for user's information. The audio signal outputting unit 250 outputs music data received through the broadcasting signal receiving unit 230, through a speaker under control of the control unit 220. The storing unit 260 stores contents of music and image received through the signal receiving unit 23 0 under control of the control unit 22 0, and the unit outputs the stored contents according to a request of the control unit 220. The royalty data generating unit 270 generates automatically royalty data of copyrights of contents which has been stored into the storing unit 260 under control of the control unit 22 0, outputting it to the royalty data transmission unit 280. The royalty data transmission unit 280 transmits royalty data, generated automatically through the royalty data generating unit 270 under control of the control unit 220, through a transmission network (return channel) to the royalty manager's computer 300. Fig. 3 is a block diagram showing a structure of the royalty manager's computer 300 in Fig. 1. As shown in the drawing, a data transmission unit 310 receives royalty data, which is generated automatically according to a user's storage of contents, from the receiving party terminal 200 through a transmission network to output the data to a control unit 320, and the unit transmits an acknowledge data for acknowledging receipt of royalty data inputted from the control unit 320, to the receiving party terminal 200, and the unit transmits copyrights fee information of each user, which is calculated on a basis of the royalty data received from the receiving party terminal 200, to the DMB provider's computer 3 00 under control of the control unit 320, and receives an acknowledge signal acknowledging receipt of the calculated copyrights fee information of each user from the DMB provider's computer 300 to output it to the control unit 320. The control unit 320 controls to calculate copyrights fee, which each user should pay, on a basis of royalty data received from the receiving party terminal 2 00 through the data transmission 310, and controls to transmit royalty information, which each user should pay, through the data transmission unit 310 to the DMB provider's computer 300. Under control of the control unit 32 0, a copyrights fee calculating unit 330 calculates copyrights fee, which each user should pay, on a basis of royalty data which is received from the receiving party terminal 2 00 through the data transmission unit 310. A database 340 stores information of copyrights fee about contents of music and image etc., and information of broadcasting program transmitted from the DMB provider's computer 100, and the database stores copyrights fee information of each user, which is calculated by the copyrights fee calculating unit 33 0, under control of the control unit 320. Now, an embodiment of the method of charging royalty of copyrights in digital multimedia broadcasting according to the present invention will be described with reference to Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is a sequence diagram showing in detail a process of the method of charging royalty. First, contents of music and images are transmitted under control of the DMB provider's computer 100 through a satellite or a relay to each of the receiving party terminals 200 of users receiving the digital multimedia broadcasting service (S105). The receiving party terminal 2 00 which receives contents under control of the DMB provider's computer 100 determines if a start of record of contents on air is selected through an user's key operation or it is reservation time to start a record (S110). As a result of the determination, if the start of record is selected by the user's key operation or it is reservation time to start a record, the receiving party terminal 200 determines if it is possible to store the corresponding contents (S115). If it is possible to store the corresponding contents, the receiving party terminal 200 stores contents transmitted under control of the DMB provider's computer 100 and the terminal prepares to create royalty data of copyrights (S120) . However, if it is not possible to store the corresponding contents as the result of determination at step of S115, the receiving party terminal 200 shows message of informing user of impossibility of the storage, on screen (S125) . The receiving party terminal 2 00 determines if an end of record is selected by the user's key operation, or it is reservation time to terminate the record (S130). As a result of the determination, if the end of record is selected by the user's key operation or it is reservation time to terminate the record, the receiving part terminal 200 performs storing function until contents on air have fully stored, and then generated royalty data which is basic information of copyrights fee of contents stored by the user (S140) . Here, the royalty data includes information of members, the start time, the end time, information of channels, information of contents that have been stored. The receiving party terminal 200 transmits royalty data, which is generated automatically according to the storage of contents, through a transmission network (return channel) to the royalty manager's computer 300 (S145), and determines if data of acknowledging receipt of royalty data is received from the royalty manager's computer 300 (S150). If the data of acknowledging receipt of royalty data is received from the royalty manager's computer 300, the receiving party terminal 200 terminates the storage of contents and displays message of informing user of success of the storage on screen (S155) However, if the data of acknowledging receipt of royalty data has not been received from the royalty manager's computer as a result of determination of the above step S150, the receiving party terminal 200 resend the royalty data to the royalty manager's computer 300 predetermined number of times at intervals of predetermined time, and then deletes the stored contents and displays a message of informing failure of the storage on screen if the acknowledge data is not received within predetermined times (S160) . Then, the royalty manager's computer 300 calculates fee of copyrights, which each user should pay, on a basis of the royalty data received from the receiving party terminal 200 (S165). That is, the computer calculates the copyrights fee by a comparison of information of contents transmitted under control of the DMB provider's computer 100 and royalty data received from the receiving party terminal 200. The royalty manager's computer 300 transmits the calculated information of copyrights fee through various return channels such as a transmission network for mobile telephone, wireless Internet and two-way pager network etc., to the DMB provider's computer 100 (S170) . The DMB provider's computer 100, which received the calculated information of copyrights fee from the royalty manager's computer 300, controls to charge each user the copyrights fee on the basis of the information (S175) . The DMB provider's computer 100 offers a part of profit of copyrights fee received from each user, to the royalty manager's computer 300 as a service charge of the calculated information of copyrights fee (S180). As mentioned above, according to the system for charging royalty of copyrights in digital multimedia broadcasting and method thereof, when a user stores contents of music and images by an user's record operation or reservation for a storage into the receiving party terminal while receiving digital multimedia broadcasting through an exclusive receiving party terminal, the user or the DMB provider does not need to perform a separate operation for a royalty, and a calculation for charging royalty of copyrights which each user should pay can be performed automatically by the royalty manager. In addition, the present invention automates a process for charging the copyrights resulting from the storage of contents, thereby preventing conflict between providers and users related to the copyrights fee and increasing income of the copyrights fee of the DMB provider, the copyright owner and the royalty manager. While the invention has been shown and described with reference to a certain preferred embodiment thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. 1. A system for charging royalty of copyrights in digital multimedia broadcasting comprising a DMB provider's computer for broadcasting various contents, through a satellite or a relay, and for charging each user royalty of copyrights on a basis of information according to storage of contents performed by users, who receive the digital multimedia broadcasting, from a royalty manager; a receiving terminal for displaying various contents being transmitted under control of the DMB provider's computer, and automatically generating royalty data of copyrights as a result of a storage when the user stores contents on air or with reservation, and transmitting the generated royalty data to the royalty manager's computer through a transmission network (return channel); and a royalty manager's computer for receiving the automatically generated royalty data according to storage of contents by users from the receiving terminal through a transmission network and calculating the royalty, which each user should pay, on a basis of the royalty data received from the receiving terminal, and transmitting the calculated royalty information through the transmission network to the DMB provider's computer. 2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the receiving terminal comprising: a key input unit for outputting key signals of various functions of the receiving terminal including storage function of contents of music and image on air correspondingly to operations of a user receiving the digital multimedia broadcasting service; a control unit for controlling reception and display various contents transmitted under control of the DMB provider's computer and controlling to store the contents transmitted under control of the DMB provider's computer when key signals for storing contents on air is inputted from the key input unit or it is reservation time to start a record and controlling to generate royalty data of copyrights of contents, which has been stored according to an user's operation, when a key signal for an end of the record is inputted from the key input unit or it is time to finish the record, and controlling to transmit the generated royalty data of copyrights to the royalty manager's computer; a broadcasting signal receiving unit for receiving various contents under control of the control unit; a display unit for displaying data, which is received through the broadcasting signal receiving unit, on a screen under control of the control unit, and displaying an operation state of the receiving terminal on the screen; an audio signal outputting unit for outputting data, which is received through the broadcasting signal receiving unit, through a speaker under control of the control unit; a storing unit for storing contents received through the signal receiving unit under control of the control unit, and which outputs the stored contents according to a request of the control unit; a royalty data generating unit for generating automatically royalty data of copyrights of contents which has been stored into the storing unit under control of the control unit; and a royalty data transmission unit for transmitting royalty data, generated automatically by the royalty data generating unit under control of the control unit, through a transmission network to the royalty manager's computer. 3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the control unit controls to terminate a transmission of royalty data if the control unit receives an acknowledge data from the royalty manager's computer after royalty data, which is generated automatically by a royalty data generating unit, is transmitted to the royalty manager's computer through the royalty data transmission unit, and the control unit controls to resend royalty data to the royalty manager's computer predetermined number of times at intervals of predetermined times when data if the control unit has not received an acknowledge data from the royalty manager's computer. 4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the royalty manager's computer comprising: a data transmission unit for receiving royalty data, which is generated automatically according to a user's storage of contents, from the receiving terminal through a transmission network and transmitting an acknowledge data for acknowledging receipt of royalty data to the receiving terminal, and transmitting copyrights fee information of each user, which is calculated on a basis of the royalty data received from the receiving terminal, to the DMB provider's computer, and receiving an acknowledge signal acknowledging receipt of the calculated copyrights fee information of each user from the DMB provider's computer; a control unit for controlling to calculate copyrights fee, which each user should pay, on a basis of royalty data received from the receiving terminal through the data transmission, and which controls to transmit royalty information, which each user should pay, through the data transmission unit to the DMB provider's computer; a copyrights fee calculating unit for calculating copyrights fee, which each user should pay, on a basis of royalty data which is received from the receiving terminal through the data transmission unit; and a database for storing copyrights fee information of each user, which is calculated by the copyrights fee calculating unit, under control of the control unit. 5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the royalty data, which is generated automatically by the receiving terminal as a result of the storage of contents includes information of members, the start time, the end time, information of channels, information of contents which have been saved. 6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the royalty data from the receiving terminal to the royalty manger's computer is transmitted by using various return channel of two-way pager network, mobile Internet and transmission network for mobile telephone which performs transmission of short message and wireless Internet. 7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the royalty manager's computer receives a part of the copyrights fee paid by users who stored contents from the DMB provider's computer, as a service charge of royalty information. 8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the receiving terminal store the contents on a specific channel which is transmitted under control of the DMB provider's computer (the specific channel is classified with a channel number or classified with a separate storage flag). 9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the receiving terminal adopt a Digital copyright Management or DRM solution where the stored contents can be displayed only on the corresponding receiving terminal, when specific contents transmitted under control of the DMB provider's computer is stored. 10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the receiving terminal have an EPG (Electronic Program Guide) where users inquire schedule of program on a desirable date through wireless Internet, and select and reserve a desirable contents to perform a storage on a basis of time information. 11. The system according to claim 1, wherein each contents is separately stored as a separate file with respect to separators between contents, when the receiving terminal stores more than one contents by the operation of the user. 12. A method of charging royalty of copyrights in digital multimedia broadcasting comprising the steps of: 1) transmitting contents from the DMB provider's computer through a satellite or a relay to each of receiving terminals; 2) determining if a start of record is selected by a user's key operation in the receiving terminal for receiving the contents transmitted under control of the DMB provider's computer,- 3) storing the contents if the start operation for recording is selected by the user's key operation or it is reservation time to start the record, and for preparing to generate a royalty data of copyrights; 4) determining if an end operation for recording is selected by the user's key operation in the receiving terminal storing contents on air, or it is reservation time to terminate the record; 5) generating royalty data, basic information of royalty of the stored contents, by the receiving terminal, if the end of the record is selected by the user's key operation or it is reservation time to terminate the record, and for transmitting the generated royalty data to the royalty manager's computer through a transmission network (return channel); 6) calculating the copyrights fee to be paid by each user by the royalty manager's computer receiving the royalty data from the receiving terminal and for transmitting the calculated copyrights fee information through the transmission network to the DMB provider's computer; and 7) controlling to charge each user copyrights fee by the DMB provider's computer on a basis of the calculated copyrights fee information received from the royalty manager's computer, and for providing a part of profit for the royalty manager's computer as a service charge of the calculated royalty information. 13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the royalty data, which is generated automatically as a result of the storage of the contents by the user's key operation or by a reservation in the receiving terminal through the 5) step, includes information of members, the start time, the end time, information of channels, information of contents which have been saved. 14. The method according to claim 12, wherein the royalty data from the receiving terminal to the royalty manager's computer through the step 5) is transmitted by using various return channel of two-way pager network, mobile Internet and transmission network for mobile telephone which performs transmission of short message and wireless Internet. 15. The method according to claim 12, wherein the receiving terminal, which transmits the royalty data generated automatically by the user's storing operation in the step 5) to the royalty manager's computer, terminates transmission of royalty data, if an acknowledge data for the royalty data is received from the royalty manager's computer, and the terminal resends royalty data to the royalty manager's computer predetermined number of times at intervals of predetermined time when the acknowledge data for the royalty data has not been received from the royalty manager's computer. 16. A system for charging royalty of copyrights in digital multimedia broadcasting substantially as herein described particularly with reference to the accompanying drawings. 17. A method of charging royalty of copyrights in digital multimedia broadcasting substantially as herein described particularly with reference to the accompanying drawings. Disclosed is a system for charging royalty of copyrights in digital multimedia broadcasting and a method thereof. A receiving party terminal, which receives contents of music and image under control of the DMB provider's computer, stores contents on air if a start operation for recording is selected by a user's key operation or it is reservation time to start the record, and generates and outputs a royalty data of copyrights which is basic information of the copyrights fee of the stored contents to the royalty manager's computer if an end operation for recording is selected by a user's key operation, or it is reservation time to terminate the record. A royalty manager's computer calculates the copyrights fee to be paid by each user on a basis of the royal data transmitted from the receiving party terminal and transmits the calculated copyrights fee information to the DMB provider's computer. A DMB provider's computer charges each user copyrights fee on a basis of the calculated copyrights fee received from the royalty manager's computer, and provides a part of profit for the royalty manager's computer as a service charge of the calculated royalty information.

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