License data for controlling partial avoidance or simultaneous access to multimedia contents, and apparatus and method for consuming multimedia contents using this license data

A license data for controlling partial avoidance or simultaneous access to multimedia contents, and a device and a method for consuming multimedia contents by using the same are provided to control the partial avoidance or the simultaneous access to the multimedia contents in a multimedia consuming device by using the license data representing a condition for avoiding or accessing the multimedia contents. A receiver(106) receives the multimedia contents and the license data representing the condition for inhibiting the partial avoidance for the multimedia contents. A license interpreter(108) generates a partial avoidance control signal by receiving the license data from the receiver and interpreting the received license data. A controller(110) controls the avoidance for a predetermined part of the multimedia contents according to the partial avoidance control signal. A partial avoidance inhibition condition includes the information for a multimedia content section applying partial avoidance inhibition. Content section information is time information including start and duration time.