Patent attributes
An album provision system is provided to prevent an album from being copied before it has not been charged for creating the album when the album is provided to a user. The album provision system includes: an image acquiring section for acquiring an image; an album creating section for creating an album by the acquired image; a film applying section for applying a viewing protection film to prevent the image from being viewed on the image laid out in the album; a film presence determining section for determining whether the viewing protection film is still applied on the image laid out in the album returned from the user when the album on which the viewing protection film is applied is provided to the user and then the album is returned from the user; and a charging section for charging the user when the film presence determining section determines that the viewing protection film is not applied on the image.
