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Many of our clients ask us questions after receiving an audit letter from......

In many software audits, the auditing entity like the Business Software Allia......

The Covid-19 pandemic shifted entire non-essential indus......

Autodesk sometimes reaches out to its customers to offer additional services, products, or upgrades......

Autodesk, Inc. uses a variety of resources to identify potential audit targ......

Autodesk routinely conducts software audits to determine whether businesses have unlic......

In the universe of software-copyright enforcement programs, Autodesk’s may be the most active and vigorous.......

Conducting a self-audit while facing potential copyright infringement claims from Autodesk or any other soft......

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Software-license compliance can be a difficult task, and understanding the standard Auto......

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......

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......

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......

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......

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......

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......