Posts Tagged ‘BSA’

There Are MANY Software Licensing and Awareness Tools Available For All Business Sizes and Budgets

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Earlier this week I posted about one of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) initiatives for enforcing software licensing compliance, “Another Approach To Licensing Compliance.”
There are *MANY* software licensing tools and awareness communications that businesses of all sizes, and with all ranges of budgets, can use to effectively track and manage their software licenses, and make their personnel aware of the issues involved with software licensing.

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Another Approach To Licensing Compliance

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

My blog posting from earlier talked about how the MPAA is trying to combat movie piracy.
I just visited the LinkedIn site and was intrigued to find an ad from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) offering up to $1,000,000…yes, US $1 million …for reporting illegal software and copyright infringements by organizations, by a distributor, or over the Internet.

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Software Licensing Infringement: Man Sentenced to 27 Months of Prison For Selling $700,000 Worth Of Illegally Copied Software

Friday, March 30th, 2007

One of the earliest types of activities I did with regard to compliance was a desktop computer-by-computer audit of a subsidiary that my employer at the time had just acquired. This was in the first half of the 1990’s. I found one licensed copy each of around 15 different software programs they used for business. I found anywhere from 25 to 150 copies of each of the software packages throughout the organization. At that time it was common for businesses to be unaware of software licensing requirements. However, I did find a few cases of folks who had actually tried to make a profit off the copies by selling them to friends.

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Software Licensing: Free Tools from the BSA & 10 Steps To Compliance

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

I saw an article published on February 1, “United States: 10 Simple Steps To Ensure Software Licensing Compliance.”

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Software Licensing: Free Tools from the BSA & 10 Steps To Compliance

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

I saw an article published on February 1, “United States: 10 Simple Steps To Ensure Software Licensing Compliance.”

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