Microsoft has long offered the Enterprise Agreement (or, "EA"), a licensing scheme for organizations with 250 or more desktops that consists of a three-year term providing free software upgrades during the term of the agreement and a perpetual license for...
The BSA and SIIA are not the only organizations pursuing business for software copyright infringement. Though it is a member of both the BSA and SIIA, Autodesk, which manufactures the popular design software AutoCAD, often pursues audit targets on...
In many software audits, the auditing entity like the Business Software Alliance or the Software & Information Industry Association requires a dated proof of purchase to demonstrate when a license for a software product was acquired. However, in audits...
Brasher's Idaho Auto Auction vs. SIIA, et al. In Brasher's Idaho Auto Auction vs. Software & Information Industry Association, Adobe Systems, Corel, McAfee, Symantec, Idaho Auto Auction, ADP, and Robert William Gillespie filed in U.S. District court for the District...
A recent Northern District of Idaho case should shed some light on how to apportion legal liability for copyright infringement damages related to business software usage. In Brasher's vs. The Software & Information Industry Association, Adobe, Corel, McAfee, Symantec, Idaho...
A patent infringement battle between Intel and Nvidia started in 2009 when the chip maker sued Nvidia regarding a chipset license agreement between the two companies that allegedly was not valid for Intel's then-current and future generation CPUs with integrated...
If you are working on a license agreement, don't forget to carefully define what is and is not included within the scope of the license. "Scope creep" has the potential to contaminate the parties' understanding of what the license includes and...
When first contacted by IBM for a "compliance review" (read: software audit), many business owners simply assume that the scope of the requested audit is within IBM's rights under applicable licensing agreements. Alternatively, if they do request that IBM identify...
Software licensing for medium to large companies is complicated. Not only are the software license agreements often hard to read and understand, but the terms frequently change with little notification to the user. Deploying software across an entire enterprise, therefore,...