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...
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...
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...