A recording medium, comprising a lead-in area, a data recording area that is formed on an outer periphery side of the lead-in area and in which a plurality of pieces of content data is recorded, and a lead-out area formed on an outer periphery side of the data recording area, wherein first copyright management information and second copyright management information with which copyrights of the plurality of pieces of content data are managed are recorded at different positions whose secrecies are different from each other.