A title management apparatus is resident on a computer server and includes
a memory for storing a control program and data, and a processor for
executing the control program and for managing the data. The computer
memory has user data resident including user security indicia. A
plurality of title objects are resident in the memory, where each title
object includes a content element, attributes, and security indicia. An
authorization structure is configured to selectively grant access to
users based at least in part of the user security indicia. A title
management structure configured to associate a user with particular title
objects based at least in part of the user data and the title attributes,
and the title management structure is configured to support the exchange
of title objects between users. Advantages of the invention include the
ability to manage titles over a network such as the Internet.