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
10Oct
Key Components of Software Audit Response Policies
Software audits are significant legal and financial risks for all companies. With more and more software publishers utilizing intrusive audits and other information-gathering exercises as the basis for licensing transactions and – more troublingly –...
8Oct
Autodesk audits: How did Autodesk know to audit you and what to do now?
Facing a software audit is a daunting process, which takes time, money, and resources to complete. Typically, the first question the target of an audit asks is whether the audit is legitimate, closely followed by...
8May
SAP Introduces New Pricing Model for Indirect Access
In response to continued customer concerns about how to license for access to SAP products by third parties or by processes, SAP announced that it was offering a new pricing model based on indirect access. ...
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
14Jun
GDPR is Coming – Are You Ready? A Roadmap for Controllers
The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is looming. GDPR becomes effective May 25, 2018. For Companies, the risks of non-compliance can range from up to €20 million to 4% of annual revenues. It’s imperative that...
16May
Fundamentals of Software Audit Data Collection
In order to effectively manage their software usage and to mitigate software license-compliance exposure, companies need to know how to gather information regarding their product usage. While some software products may have unique data-collection requirements...
12Apr
Post-Settlement Obligations in Software Settlements
A settlement agreement to resolve software copyright infringement claims is not the final word in obtaining a release of liability. There are a number of obligations triggered by the settlement agreement that cannot be ignored...