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 ...

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 ...

Licensors of software typically utilize software license agreements providing for their ownership of the licensed software and related IP, as well as restrictions barring licensees from reverse ...

Windows only: Cut through the legalese to the meat of software End User License Agreements (EULA) with freeware application, EULAlyzer. To use it, just run the program whenever you're installing a new ...

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 ...

I am often asked to draft or review software license agreements. Some are basic and some are more complex. What is surprising to me is the willingness in the market to turn to a legal expert named ...

The limitation of liability is one of the most important clauses in a software license agreement because it limits the amount and types of damages one party can recover from the other party. For ...

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 ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In their work discussing the history of software licensing, intellectual property scholars Michael L. Rustad and Maria Vittoria Onufrio ...

That ticking sound you hear is the time bomb waiting to go off in your company's IT organization, where more likely than not your company is at risk of failing a software audit. According to a new ...

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 ...