Entries from BSA Audits tagged with 'siia'
Unauthorized Software: Costly to Your Bottom Line
The Business Software Alliance (“BSA”) and Software & Information Industry Association (“SIIA”) pursue copyright infringement claims against companies accused of installing unauthorized copies of software. Typically, the BSA and SIIA send letters to businesses and request audits of their computer...
Effective Dates in Software Audits are Critically Important
Businesses that receive software audit demand letters from auditing entities such as the BSA or SIIA, or from software companies like Autodesk or Microsoft, often contend they cleaned up their network after receipt of the letter and should be released...
Adopting Software Use Policies to Protect Against Copyright Infringement Claims
The Business Software Alliance (“BSA”), and the Software & Information Industry Association (“SIIA”) pursue copyright infringement claims on behalf of software publishers, such as Microsoft, Adobe, and Autodesk, among many others. Typically the BSA and SIIA send audit letters to...
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...
Unpleasant Surprises in BSA & SIIA Software Audits
Many companies who comply with a demand by a software publisher or industry association (such as the BSA or the SIIA) for an internal software audit end up facing significant settlement demands after forwarding their audit materials to the other...
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