Sales system and sales management method

1. A sales system comprising:

a sales management device having a processor; and

a license management device,

wherein the sales management device includes a sales information communication unit configured to communicate, using the processor, when a non-transitory recording medium on which a digital content is recorded has been sold from a final seller to an end user at a store through a distribution channel of the recording media, to the license management device the sales information indicating that the recording medium has been sold at the store and a user ID and the license management device associates the user ID with a unique secret ID,

wherein the recording medium is encoded with an open ID and the unique secret ID, the secret ID not viewable by the end user; and

wherein, upon the end user placing the recording medium in a user device, the user device transmits the user ID, the open ID, and the secret ID to the license management device,

wherein the license management device includes a license provision unit configured to provide, on condition that the received user ID and the secret ID match the associated user ID and the secret ID, a license for enabling the use of the digital content contained on the tangible non-transitory recording medium on the user device of the end user, and

wherein the sales management device further includes a money transfer support unit configured to support transferring, using the processor, part of the sales price to an intermediate seller involving the distribution of the recording medium when the non-transitory recording medium has been sold to the end user.

2. The sales system according to claim 1 , wherein the money transfer support unit executes payment of the purchase price of the recording media to the intermediate seller when the recording medium has been sold to the end user, by supporting transferring part of the sales price.

3. The sale system according to claim 2 , wherein the sales management device further includes a price communication unit configured to communicate a situation of change in the purchase price to the final seller in order to change the sales price at the final seller in accordance with the situation of change in the purchase price.

4. The sale system according to claim 1 , wherein the sales information includes information on the final seller who has sold the recording medium; and wherein the license management device further includes a sales situation recording unit configured to associate the information on the end user to whom the license has been provided, with the information on the final seller to store these information in a predetermined storage device.

5. A sales management method executed by a sales management device having a processor, the method comprising:

receiving, from an end user, a user ID and payment for a non-transitory recording medium on which a digital content is recorded,

wherein the recording medium is encoded with an open ID and a unique secret ID;

associating the user ID with the secret ID encoded on the recording medium in a database;

transferring, to an intermediate seller involving the distribution of the non-transitory recording medium when the recording medium has been sold to the end user, part of the sales price to when the non-transitory recording medium has been sold from a final seller to the end user through the distribution channel of the non-transitory recording medium, and

transmitting, by a user device, a user ID, the open ID, and the secret ID from the user device to the sales management device;

verifying that the received user ID is associated with the received secret ID in the database;

transmitting, by the sales management device, on condition that the received user ID is associated with the received secret ID match, a license to the user device for enabling use of the digital content on a user device of the end user.