News
13Jun
MSPAlliance Launches GDPR Program for Service Providers
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The International Association of Cloud & Managed Service Providers (MSPAlliance®) today launched a comprehensive program for its service providers members related to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The...
1May
How to Survive a Nasty Software Vendor Audit
Kristin Burnham, CIO.com, 04/30/2018 When software vendor auditors push too far, enterprise technology leaders must be prepared to push back. In an extreme case, the food company Mars (best known for Snickers and M&M’s candies)...
25Apr
Scott & Scott, LLP Named Technology Law Firm of the Year – USA
Lawyers Worldwide Awards Magazine announced in their Super Lawyers 2018 edition that Texas-based law firm Scott & Scott, LLP was named Technology Law Firm of the Year – USA.
Blogs
31Oct
Don’t Jeopardize Your Release of Liability! Complete post-settlement obligations
As software audits increasingly become a way for software publishers to increase revenue, it is more important than ever to ensure that after a company has invested effort into resolving an audit, the company does...
29Oct
What is a Microsoft SPLA Verified Self-Audit?
If you provide commercial hosting services using Microsoft’s Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA), you may become a target of an ever-increasing variety of license audits from Microsoft and its vendors. The latest flavor of a...
24Oct
Costly Software Audit Mistakes
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) are organizations that represent software publishers seeking to enforce the copyrights in the products they publish. In furtherance of this goal, these...
Articles
12Apr
Are Your Clients Ready for GDPR on May 25?
Robert J. Scott & Stephen F. Pinson, Headnotes, 03/23/18 What is GDPR? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes effective on May 25, 2018 and should give all in-house counsel and law firms cause for...
6Dec
Licensing Oracle in the Cloud (Microsoft, Amazon or Oracle)
Julie Machal-Fulks, The ITAM Review, 12/06/2017 Increasingly, companies are considering outsourcing datacenter workloads to third-party hosted or cloud environments. Software publishers like Oracle are not only publishing guidance on how to count licenses that are...
20Sep
Negotiating Technology Contracts – Requirements
Stephen F. Pinson, The Pulse, July 2017 One of the most overlooked sections in a technology-related contract is the insurance section. Whether that contract involves IT services, development, Software as a Service or Cloud Services,...
Research
21Jan
GDPR – Competitive Edge for MSPs
The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) became effective May 2018. The risks of non-compliance can range from up to €20 million to 4% of annual revenues but understanding and implementing GDPR compliance obligations can help...
12Dec
Oracle Licensing and Audit Challenges
Oracle software is used by a wide range of enterprises. Oracle’s audit practice has continued to grow and many customers are surprised by the outcomes in Oracle audits. In some instances, audits results in millions of...
22Oct
How to Know When You Need Legal Advice
SAM Summit 2018, Speaker: Julie Machal-Fulks, Scott & Scott, LLP Just because you’re not a lawyer doesn’t mean you don’t need to understand the legalese in software contracts, especially the known problem areas. In this...