9Nov
Adobe Creative Suite Abandons Your Desktop for The Cloud
On May 6, 2013, Adobe announced that Creative Suite 6 and the component products included in that product line (e.g., Photoshop CS6, Illustrator CS6, etc.) would be the last Creative Suite products to be released...
6Nov
Proving Ownership of Underlying Licenses for Adobe Upgrades in Software Audits
Software publisher Adobe Systems Inc. actively investigates its existing customers to determine whether each customer has properly licensed Adobe software, or is committing copyright infringement. Adobe often pursues its customers directly, but sometimes grants a...
11Feb
Autodesk Follows Adobe’s Shift to Subscription Only Cloud Offerings
In May 2013, Adobe announced that CS6 would be the last version of its Creative Suite software product line that would be available under traditional, stand-alone, perpetual licenses. Instead, all releases of Creative Suite products...
29Jan
Campaign for Clear Licensing Turns its Sights to IBM and SAP
Having shone its spotlight on Oracle’s notoriously complex licensing policies and often adversarial audit practices, the Campaign for Clear Licensing (CCL), a UK-based organization advocating reforms to software-licensing practices, now has shifted its attention to...
20Oct
Autodesk License Alert
One venerable software license model that many companies have utilized in the past has been the license upgrade, under which a licensee could acquire the right to deploy the newest version of a product at...
16Jun
Autodesk Settlement Agreements: Beware Restrictive Superseding License Terms
A software audit typically resolves in one of three ways: a dismissal, a settlement, or litigation. The most common path to resolution is a settlement between the parties for potential copyright infringement stemming from allegedly...
