Software providers, asset managers, and licensees can consider various strategies to help assess risk and effectively negotiate software license compliance disputes. Software is the heartbeat of every ...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Keeping track of software licenses and contracts that permit their use is not a new problem for IT managers. Software asset management (SAM) has ...

Cisco has created a software licensing agreement for use across its product areas, including collaboration, security, and infrastructure products. In addition to streamlining the licensing process, ...

In a decision published last week, Appeals of CiyaSoft Corp., ASBCA Nos. 59519, 59913, the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) held for the first time that the Government may be bound by ...

As reaffirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2012, federal courts must acknowledge the supremacy of federal law that favors arbitration. See Nitro-Lift Technologies v. Howard, 568 U.S. 17 (2012). In ...

U.S. agreements are not easily transferable and translatable to foreign markets with little or no change to license agreements, marketing styles, methods of distribution, and the like. This covers a ...

Careful navigation of software licensing agreements can save you a bundle. This guide to popular licensing mistakes and remedies explains how You say software licenses give you migraines? Talk to ...

There are many obviously problematic provisions in a software license agreement. These provisions discuss audit rights, scope of the license grant, potential third-party use, limitations of liability, ...

Maybe it was a slow news day. Tiger was in rehab. The Salahis were before U.S. congressional hearings, hiding behind the Fifth Amendment. Whatever. I was installing a tool chain and actually read the ...

Move over, free software. Step aside, today's open-source licenses. Software distributed under an "enhanced source" license released this week will be legally prohibited from censoring or spying on ...

Someone at my seminar in Los Angeles last month asked about challenges that the cloud poses for software licensing. That’s such a broad and complex topic that it could warrant an entire seminar of its ...

I have a small hobby business that I use for contracting and licensing an ecommerce plugin that I wrote a number of years ago. Typically a customer will purchase a license key for $40 and use the ...