Category Archives: «BSA Audits»

I am a partner in Scott & Scott, LLP a firm that focuses on technology law matters in Southla......

Most software audits initiated by the software publisher or a third party entity author......

One of the most common mistakes I encounter in software audits is what I c......

Businesses that receive software audit demand letters from auditing ......

Recent trends indicate that software publishers are increasingly initiating direct software a......

BSA | The Software Alliance (BSA) is an organization that represents software companies and prosecutes alle......

I am an intellectual property attorney in Southlake, Texas who has handled more than 230 Business S......

Sometimes a company receives notices of audits from many publishers......

The BSA | The Software Alliance (“the BSA”) investigates claims of software copy......

Many companies who comply with a demand by a software publisher or industry associat......

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BSA| The Software Alliance (the “BSA”) is an organization that acts on behalf of software publish......

While the over-arching concept underlying a software audit initiated by a publisher like Microsoft or ......

Many software copyright infringement claims are resolved informally and often the terms are set for......

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An increasing number of companies ......

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 pursue customers accused of installing m......

Sometimes a company receives notices of audits from many publishers or trade associations at the same time. Often this is because multiple agencies have received confidential reports from the same informant. If a current or previous employee contacts both the Software & ......

Your business has just finished spending the last year of its corporate life responding to a software audit demanded by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) or the Software &Information Industry Association (SIIA). It has devoted substantial time and internal resources i......

In a previous post, I introduced the concept of post-settlement compliance following the settlement of audits initiated by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). As noted before, the first step to completing the c......

As the year comes to a close, many software publishers and trade associations with calendar year accounting are resolving as many outstanding software audits as possible. Companies currently engaged in a software audit may be able to negotiate favorable resolutions to their ......

On January 12, 2012, the D.C. Court of Appeals held that the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) would not be required to disclose the name of one of its confidential informants in a civil case for defamation. Solers, Inc. had filed its lawsuit against a J......

If your company has received a letter from the BSA | The Software Alliance requesting a software audit, you are probably wondering whether you should cooperate or ignore the request. I have been handling BSA cases for almost a decade and advise my clients to cooperate but to......