Songs "Not Authorized to play on this computer"

I hooked my iPod up to charge, after it went through automatic syncing I saw that only a handful of my songs were listed on the playlists on the iPod.
When I tried to re-sync my playlists in I got a pop-up that said over 100 of my songs "were not copied to the iPod because you are not authorized to play them on this computer".
This is the only computer I have ever used, I've had my iPod for a couple of months and never had any problems...I did upgrade to the new version of iTunes several days ago, after doing a system restore on my computer. How do I authorize my computer for this? Thanks for any advice!

Yes thanks
I just bought a new IMAC. When i went to sync my iphone for the first time it gave me that message. So I found an Arcade Fire song that was one of the 100 songs that wouldn't sync, tried to play it, then got the opportunity to enter my password and was back up and running that fast. It authorized this new computer.
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