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11 Secrets to Defending BSA | The Software Alliance Audits
Don't be in the dark on how to prepare and respond to software audits.
An increasing number of companies face software compliance audits initiated by software publishers and their trade associations, such as BSA | The Software Alliance and the Software & Informati......
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BSA / SIIA Audits and Software Publisher-Initiated Audits Differ in Important Ways
While the over-arching concept underlying a software audit initiated by a publisher like Microsoft or IBM is the same as that in an audit initiated by the BSA | The Software Alliance or the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) – a comparison of softwa......
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Negotiating Copyright Infringement Damages in Software Settlements with the BSA
The BSA | The Software Alliance (“the BSA”) investigates claims of software copyright infringement in behalf of its member software publishers to determine whether any companies end users have unlicensed software installed in violation of The Copyright Act.
The BS......
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Audit Inspections: How to Proceed with Inspecting Computers for Software Installations
BSA | The Software Alliance (BSA) is an organization that represents software companies and prosecutes alleged unlicensed use of those member companies’ software products. The BSA generally initially sends a company a letter indicating the company may be out of complia......
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Is it Possible to Short-Circuit a BSA or SIIA Software Audit?
[caption id="attachment_4770" align="alignnone" width="608"] Can a BSA | The Software Alliance or SIIA Audit be Short Circuited?[/caption]
Companies react in different ways after receiving a letter from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) or the Software & ......
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Responding to an Audit from the BSA-The Software Alliance
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......