15Aug
Is Flexera’s Initiative with Microsoft a Silver Bullet for Software Audits?
Microsoft and Flexera recently announced a joint initiative that the two companies have touted as a way to transform “the software supply chain” through the use of a standard set of software asset management (SAM)...
11Jul
Are Mandatory Software Inventory Tools on the Horizon?
Software licensing compliance is a complex task to manage. The metrics for measuring compliance often are a challenge to gather, and those metrics typically are different from software publisher to software publisher. This means that...
6Apr
Software Piracy
Software piracy audits conducted by the BSA and the SIIA threaten small and medium sized businesses. As the economy tightens, software publishers such as Microsoft, Adobe, and Autodesk hide behind software piracy enforcement groups to...
23Jan
Trade Secrets Takedown on the Internet: A YouTube Takedown Video Notice Letter Example
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”) can help owners of some intellectual property (e.g., copyrights) remove online infringing content. But, the DMCA does not apply to trade-secrets. So, what is a company to do...
22Nov
Microsoft Clarifies Rules Related to Self-Hosting
I previously presented my thoughts here regarding changes Microsoft made to its Product Terms pertaining to the Self-Hosted Applications benefit under Software Assurance. After publishing that entry, Microsoft reached out to me to clarify that...
14Sep
Responding to Autodesk Audits
The BSA and SIIA are not the only organizations pursuing business for software copyright infringement. Though it is a member of both the BSA and SIIA, Autodesk, which manufactures the popular design software AutoCAD, often...
