Method for controlling copyright of encrypted digital data.

The present invention provides a method for controlling copyright of digital data in a database system including real time transmission of a digital picture. Copyright is controlled using one or more of copyright control program, copyright information or copyright control message as necessary, in addition to a permit key. The copyright control program, the copyright information and the copyright control message are supplied together with the permit key, or they are supplied together with the data, or a part of them is supplied togther with the permit key and other part of them is supplied together with the data. The data, the permit key, the copyright control message, the copyright information and the copyright control program are transmitted with encrypted but are decrypted when using, or they are transmitted with encrypted and are decrypted for display only, otherwise remain in encrypted, or they may not be encrypted at all.