reproduction of a work of authorship including customer information work of authorship information location and temporal information etc and or may transmit such information to a local or remote location 20 or depository 22 as close as a different adjacent computer or room or even a different memory device located in the same black box or a different section of the same memory device the method according to the second embodiment of the present invention is shown in the flow diagram of fig4 in step 100 the customer places the original medium 80 an lp in the analog data reading device 82 in step 102 the data is read from the original medium 80 in step 104 the analog data is converted from analog to digital and in step 105 the digital data is stored in the memory 7 in step 106 the data from the original medium 80 is checked to determine the nature of the work of authorship the information included on the label of the original medium 80 may also be read using text recognition software and analyzed for purposes of identification of the work of authorship and verifying information relating to the work of authorship for example the system may only be operable for embodiments originating from the u s or only from particular sources alternatively or additionally the system may include a step requiring the customer to view information or.