13May
Negotiating Technology Contracts: On-premise vs. Cloud and Hosted Software
More and more businesses are considering accessing hosted software rather than purchasing on-premise software. They are also placing data in third-party public or private clouds instead of selecting on-premise software. This article will explain the...
11May
Bad Advice That Can Get You Sued for Software Copyright Infringement
In recent years, many software publishers began using software audits as a means to increase revenue by penalizing customers for perceived compliance issues. Software publishers often conduct direct audits, or audit through companies such as...
15Apr
Negotiating a Statement of Work: Key terms in a Statement of Work
Often, after signing a Master Service Agreement (“MSA”), a service provider and its client will memorialize the details of the project by crafting a Statement of Work (“SOW”). The importance of the terms in a...
13Apr
IBM Approves Limited Exceptions to ILMT Sub-Capacity Reporting
For more than a decade, IBM has allowed its end users to license IBM software products on a sub-capacity basis. For IBM licensing purposes, sub-capacity licensing required customers to accept the sub-capacity licensing terms (originally...
7Apr
Health Care Organizations Seeing Increased Audit Requests
During a global pandemic, health care organizations may have believed that they could focus solely on providing health-care services to their customary patient-base, along with those affected by COVID-19. Many of those organizations were surprised...
1Apr
Which is Better: Microsoft SPLA or Microsoft Self-Hosted Applications?
Many businesses that identify a need to acquire “commercial hosting rights” in connection with hosted solutions incorporating Microsoft software have two options for acquiring them: through a Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA) with Microsoft or...
