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I had a major laptop crash at the end of May 2024 and my hard drive was unrecoverable. I lost all Encore files from 2017 on but, worse than that, I lost the local email directory which contained my stored serial number (I thought I had cloud backup). Registry is gone also – computer not bootable. I am still looking for something on a disk, but my understanding is that the numbers were sent by email in later years and all that archived data is now gone (?).
I need to create on Encore again and need access to my large library of scores! I would be willing to purchase an older version (I had the latest PC 5.XX) with a valid serial number from someone no longer using the program (if that’s legit). I could wait to purchase a complete Version 6, but I don’t want to wait that long!!
Hello Jim,
The question of legality/legitimacy isn’t easy to answer. We have a usage license with PassportMusic Software (eventually transferred from GVOX), and that company has stopped doing business. It isn’t totally clear if Don has, later, gotten a transfer of the whole company – including the licenses – or only bought the IP rights on the two products. He has said that he hadn’t the server with the customer base files. And he does not sell nor repair Encore 5 licenses.So, the legal status of Encore 5 might as well be that it has become public domain, as that all our licenses have gotten obsolete!
Assuming that the reality is something in between, I think that a usage license can always be given or sold to anybody else (as one can always do with a copyrighted book), but that may depend on the laws applicable in the country of the transferring party, which may supersede the specific license agreements (EULA).
If you expect a volunteer to rise up, you should indicate if you need a Windows or Mac version. If I remember it well, an Encore 5 license was cross-platforms, but the licensed material – including the serial number – is not. Best also specify your e-mail address.
My platform is Windows, now Windows 11 (I had indicated PC). I can be reached at [email protected]. Thank you for your response and I’m sorry I am just now seeing it.
I just signed up to say this. I have found a working serial number
922185-u0v827-732483-038877-000077-561479“I just signed up to say this. I have found a working serial number
922185-u0v827-732483-038877-000077-561479”I saw that one on the web. Looks like an “unofficial” distribution. Such serial numbers only work with some cracked program copies.
It might as well be a serial number for enCORE Healthcare software…
So, the legal status of Encore 5 might as well be that it has become public domain, as that all our licenses have gotten obsolete!
Without saying too much about this and that, I can assure everyone that obsolete licenses never, ever make anything Public Domain. Neither does anything considered abandoned. In the USA and most countries, anything less than 95 years old can be considered under Copyright unless published by the government. There are exceptions but the limit on those is 120 years. The rest of the world follows the limits set by the Berne Convention—death of the last surviving composer or author + 70 years or + 50 years, depending on the country.
Whether or not Don choses to exercise his rights over these old applications is not for me to say.
“I just signed up to say this. I have found a working serial number”
No, you did not, unfortunately.
There are some serial numbers floating around on the internet. Some work; others do not.
i’m in the same boat. my computer died, and i couldn’t get access to it from a new laptop connected to the old hard drive. i have emails regarding the purchase, including the receipt, but no license key. i went so far as to buy a used laptop of the same model on ebay hoping to be able to get to it that way, and while i can start encore from the old hard drive if it’s connected to the ebay laptop as a 2nd drive, there is no license key. i used it for years. i don’t know where the license key could possibly be, or even if i ever needed one. if i ever had one, it is gone. if anyone can help me by providing a license key, i would be forever grateful. old laptop was windows 10, and new one is windows 11 (which is why i needed another old laptop off of ebay – the install on my old hard drive wouldn’t run on my new laptop). you can email me at my username at gmail.
i found my license key! in case this helps anyone else in the same boat:
license key is stored in the registry. Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\PASSPORT\Encore\5.0\Registration
if you need to access the registry on a hard drive that you can’t boot from, you can load the hive file and get to it that way. i found instructions here on how to do that:Accessing Another Windows Computer’s Registry from a Disk in Windows 8.1
i only needed to load the SOFTWARE hive. i had to search for “encore” a few times for it to find the right folder, but once there, it was under PASSPORT\Encore\5.0\Registration. the key is SN and the value in the data field is your serial number.
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