The rapidly increasing use of the Internet and advancement of the communication network, the explosive growth of digital contents from personal home pages to professional information service the emerging file exchange service and the development of hacking techniques . these are some of the trends contributing to the spread of illegal reproduction and distribution of digital contents, thus threatening the exclusive copyrights of the creative works that should be legally protected Accordingly, there is urgent need for a digital copyright management system designed to provide centralized management while playing the role of bridge between the copyright owners and users for smooth trading of the rights to digital contents, reliable billing, security measures, and monitoring of illegal use. Therefore, in this study, I examined the requirements of laws and systems for the introduction of the centralized management system to support smooth distribution of digital contents, and also researched on the current status of domestic and international centralized management system for copyrights. Furthermore, 1 tried to provide basic materials for the standardization of digital contents copyright management information through the examination of the essential elements of the centralized digital contents management such as the system for unique identification the standardization for data elements, and the digital rights management (DHM) .