What Usage Rights Do I Have With Purchased Files; What Is A Usage Right; How Do I Manage My Usage Rights; I Don't Get It. Can I See An Example - FreeHand MusicPad Pro+ User Manual

What Usage Rights Do I Have With Purchased Files?

How Many Times can I Download a File from the
FreeHand Music Store?
After you have purchased a file you, can download it as many times as you want onto
any Macintosh or PC of your choice. You can then view it on that system whenever you
want. You can download it either in the transposable format or in the traditional bitmap
format, or both.

What is a Usage Right?

A "usage right" is the right to transfer and display a song on a MusicPad Pro tablet.
When you buy a song from the FreeHand Music store, you usually get one "usage right"
unless you specifically purchase more than one. When you have transfered a song to a
MusicPad Pro tablet that tablet maintains the rights to display that song forever,
regardless of whether you remove the song from the pad or move it around on the pad.
The MusicPad Pro tablet also has the rights to display the song in either or both the
transposable or traditional bitmap format.

How Do I Manage my Usage Rights?

Once you have downloaded a file onto a system (either a PC, a Macintosh or your
MusicPad Pro tablet), you have the number of usage rights that you purchased (usually
one). The encrypted database that holds this information is on the system you
downloaded the file to. This means that if you downloaded your song onto a particular
PC, the usage rights are on that PC. If you downloaded that same song to a different PC,
you would not have a usage right on that PC. This means that you would not be able to
transfer that song to a MusicPad Pro tablet from that second PC, but you would be able
to view it on that PC.
If you download a file directly to your MusicPad Pro tablet you have immediately used
the usage right that you purchased. This means that you cannot transfer that song to
another MusicPad Pro tablet.

I Don't Get It. Can I See an Example?

At the FreeHand Music store, purchase a copy of Elton John's "Your Song." You then
download it to your PC. At this point you can open the file and view it, annotate it,
transpose it, listen to the MIDI track, or do anything else to it that you can do to any
FreeHand file.
You now transfer the score to your MusicPad Pro tablet using the File Manager. See
Chapter 4, "Managing Your Files" for more details. You have now transfered the "usage
right" to that MusicPad Pro tablet. If you attempt to transfer that same song to a
different MusicPad Pro tablet, you cannot view it there.
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