In 2020, the City of Calgary introduced a requirement that people wanting to use their property as a short-term rental had to obtain a business licence from the City.

The number of software audits requested by software publishers and their trade groups including the Business Software Association (BSA) and Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) will increase dramatically in 2012.

Responding to a software audit can be an arduous, expensive, and time-consuming process for a company.

Even though software audits are commonplace in many businesses, recipients of audit notices make many mistakes when it comes to audit responses.

Sometimes a company receives notices of audits from many publishers or trade associations at the same time.

Microsoft does not make licensing SQL Server easy, either under SPLA or under volume licensing agreements.

Autodesk, Inc. uses a variety of resources to identify potential audit targets.

There are two vital steps to proving a consumer is innocent of copyright infringement.

Naturally, many of those clients have questions about that process and the ramifications of cooperating with Microsoft.

When it comes to keeping records demonstrating how and when your company acquired software licenses, you can never have too much of a good thing.

IBM may be making it more difficult for IBM customers to qualify for sub-capacity licensing in virtualized environments.

Software audits are significant legal and financial risks for all companies.

Microsoft, like other software publishers, routinely audits customers to help ensure that it is protecting the value of its intellectual property. Microsoft verifies its customers' compliance using several methods.

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...

Many software copyright infringement claims are resolved informally and often the terms are set forth in a settlement agreement.

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

Each of the major software publishers has one or two tricks up its sleeve – tricks that often are missed by licensees – affecting how its server products may be used in virtualized environments.

BSA| The Software Alliance (the "BSA") is an organization that acts on behalf of software publishers to enforce copyrights.

When drafting or negotiating software agreements, it is important to understand the definition of "Software."

However, for many companies, those have been relatively easy requirements to satisfy.