Entries from BSA Audits tagged with 'copyright infringement'
Litigating Copyright Infringement Claims Related To Competing Software Applications
Software copyright infringement litigation (sometimes called software anti-piracy claims) comes in an array of varieties. Frequently, it is functionally indistinguishable from disputes involving literary or audio-visual works and centers on claims that an infringer copied a copyright owner’s work and...
Judge 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...
Costly Software Audit Mistakes
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) are organizations that represent software publishers seeking to enforce the copyrights in the products they publish. In furtherance of this goal, these entities routinely send letters to...
What is the BSA’s Definition of Software Piracy?
“Software piracy” is a favorite catch-phrase used by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the software companies it represents. Most people understand software piracy to involve the intentional copying and, in many cases, distribution of copyrighted software to third parties...
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