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In many software audits, the auditing entity like the Business Software Allia......
Autodesk Audits: The Importance of Serial Numbers
In many software audits, the auditing entity like the Business Software Allia......
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The Covid-19 pandemic shifted entire non-essential indus......
Autodesk Licensing Implications of Working from Home
The Covid-19 pandemic shifted entire non-essential indus......
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Autodesk sometimes reaches out to its customers to offer additional services, products, or upgrades......
Prevent Autodesk Business Disputes from Turning into an Audit
Autodesk sometimes reaches out to its customers to offer additional services, products, or upgrades......
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Autodesk, Inc. uses a variety of resources to identify potential audit targ......
Autodesk Audits: Managing Independent Contractors
Autodesk, Inc. uses a variety of resources to identify potential audit targ......
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Autodesk routinely conducts software audits to determine whether businesses have unlic......
Autodesk Targets Architects In Software Audits
Autodesk routinely conducts software audits to determine whether businesses have unlic......
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Conducting a self-audit while facing potential copyright infringement claims from Autodesk or any other soft......
Autodesk Audits: How to Effectively Scan Your Network and Prepare Accurate Results
Conducting a self-audit while facing potential copyright infringement claims from Autodesk or any other soft......
Facing a
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Software-license compliance can be a difficult task, and understanding the standard Auto......
Top Four Terms to Remember when Purchasing Autodesk Software
Software-license compliance can be a difficult task, and understanding the standard Auto......
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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 pursues audit targets on its own.
The audits begi......
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Top Tips for Responding to an Autodesk Audit
Autodesk routinely sends letters to businesses that it suspects may be using Autodesk software products without adequate licensing, both in order to confirm those suspicions as well as to address any license-compliance discrepancies. Typically under threat of a federal lawsu......
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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 since then have been available exclusively......
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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 a much-reduced price, provided that the licensee also owns a full lice......
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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 unlicensed software. Software publishers so......
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Another Court Ruling Against Autodesk in Software Dispute
UPDATE: On October 3, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court declined a request to grant certiorari in the Vernor case, allowing to stand the Ninth Circuit’s reversal of the trial court’s decision. The Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the case means that, at least in the Ninth Ci......
