A TV music broadcasting program is distributed from a distribution apparatus
through
a ground station and a satellite, and a musical-piece program is also distributed
through a plurality of audio channels. A subscriber looks for the desired musical
piece from a musical-piece list displayed on the screen of a TV receiver and downloads
it into a storage device. A pay-per-view method is employed in which accounting
is performed in units of musical pieces. At downloading, a purchase record is stored
in an IC card placed in a receiving apparatus and it is periodically sent to a
customer management center. The customer management center calculates the viewing
fee and issues a bill to the subscriber. A copyright management apparatus in the
distribution apparatus obtains the purchase record of a musical piece from the
customer management center to calculate a copyright fee to be paid to the copyright holder.
