In this paper, we present a content-dependent authorization mechanism for object-oriented database systems. So far, several models of authorization for object-oriented databases have been proposed, but most of these models do not support the authorization based on the database content. This paper shows how the traditional content-independent authorization model can be extended to provide the content-dependent authorization using predicates on the values of attributes of a class. The proposed model makes it possible to group objects that satisfy the specified conditions on the values of the objects and to grant a single authorization on those objects. This model supports the negative authorization and provides the concept of the strong and weak authorization to resolve conflicts between positive and negative authorizations. In addition, we address and resolve some of the problems that arise when the predicates are associated with the authorization. In particular, since the authorization operations of the traditional content- independent model become inadequate for our mode, we redefine the semantics of the authorization operations.