The present invention provides a contents managing system, a contents
managing methods, and a program are provided, by which a communication
fee required to distribute such contents which will not be probably
utilized is reduced when contents are distributed via a network. An image
owner performs a user registration with respect to an image managing
server 2 by employing an image owner terminal. After the user
registration, an image purchaser makes an order of an image with
reference to a trial image produced by the image owner terminal. The
image owner as to this ordered image uploads actual image data to the
image managing server, whereas the image purchaser downloads the actual
image data which is uploaded.