April 2010 Archives

04/13/2010 09:35:54 AMLife after a Software Audit: Keeping Settlement Confidential

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is an organization that pursues copyright infringement claims on behalf of many software publishers against companies it accuses of violating its members' software license agreements. Because the cost of litigation in most cases outweighs the...

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04/13/2010 09:34:52 AMJudge Rejects Copyright Damages Compilation Components

In Nature's Enterprises, Inc. v. Pearson (2010), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected Nature's Enterprises ("NEI's") request for damages for each component part of a compilation. NEI had alleged that Pearson infringed ten of...

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04/09/2010 10:39:17 AMIBM Software Audits Involve Complex Licensing Rules

Business owners and managers whose companies have been targeted by IBM for a compliance audit often express surprise at the complex method IBM uses to determine the licensing requirements for many of its server software products, such as WebSphere and...

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