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RealPlayer and licensing
Recumbentman Started conversation Feb 2, 2004
Now here's something weird:
Many years ago I wrote three songs. I took them to a one-man studio which I hired for two hours, and recorded them, playing a £5 guitar. Many many years ago.
About five years ago a young friend transferred my little tape to CD. I was delighted and loaded my songs onto my PC.
Yesterday I clicked on one, as though to play it. I thought I might upload them to my web page.
RealPlayer told me I needed to go online and "acquire a licence to play this track". I went online but couldn't find the licences.
Sigh.
RealPlayer and licensing
shorncanary ~^~^~ sign the petition to save the albatrosses Posted Feb 3, 2004
That sounds like a partially implemented policy hastily and clumsily cobbled together to avoid contravening the new copy right legislation.
Wow. A £5 guitar. That wouldn't buy you an ice-cream in some establishments today 
RealPlayer and licensing
HappyDude Posted Feb 3, 2004
realplayer yuk
had a similar prob on the GF's laptop when all the "licences for the "windows media" files disapeared (the mp3's were fine) 1/2 an hour of fiddling and the returned not sure how or why
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Also Ran1-hope springs eternal Posted Mar 10, 2004
Silence dear Recumbent, Total, deafening silence!!
Is there any reason why you should not get a licence in order to upload them? surely that would mean that you would automatically have the copyright? I think that it is most exciting - it might also mean that we could send messages to one another - in a cooing voice of course!!
sincerely
also ran1 
RealPlayer and licensing
Recumbentman Posted Mar 10, 2004
Should I try again? When I went online there was no obvious direction to where the licence might be available . . . and it does seem strange that someone else should have the gall to offer me a licence for what I recorded myself. Humph.
RealPlayer and licensing
Also Ran1-hope springs eternal Posted Mar 11, 2004
Can't you ask them what the licence is for? If it is to protect others from plagiarising your compositions it surely bould be worth it.
AR1
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Recumbentman Posted Mar 29, 2004
Now! I've done some asking and tweaking and uploading and . . . I think they're there. Enjoy. Report back. 
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Recumbentman Posted Mar 29, 2004
Where? My home page: http://www.Andrew.Robinson.net
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- 1: Recumbentman (Feb 2, 2004)
- 2: shorncanary ~^~^~ sign the petition to save the albatrosses (Feb 3, 2004)
- 3: HappyDude (Feb 3, 2004)
- 4: Also Ran1-hope springs eternal (Mar 10, 2004)
- 5: Recumbentman (Mar 10, 2004)
- 6: Also Ran1-hope springs eternal (Mar 11, 2004)
- 7: Recumbentman (Mar 29, 2004)
- 8: Recumbentman (Mar 29, 2004)
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