An apparatus for managing content including a property-modeling unit for defining properties in a predetermined format according to the content types, a category-managing-unit for creating categories mapped to the content type, a UI-providing unit for providing a screen on which property-information values are input according to the types of the generated categories, a mapping unit for mapping the property-information values to a predetermined content file. The property-information value includes one or more sets of information regarding the authority information and/or the price model of the content where each set is capable of including both the authority information and the price model.