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Welcome to SofTrack's Metering and Licensing News page.

This page is dedicated to tracking of news regarding software license compliance activities from around the world.

License Compliance News:
  
  • Organizations that have been fined


  • North American enforcement guidelines


  • Independent Licensing News


  • News from Vendors


  • General Licensing News


  • License Compliance in the United Kingdom



    • Organizations that have been fined
  • Hayward company settles claims over unlicensed software

  • Insurance specialists Alcos fined $75,000

  • Software crackdown hits three Bay Area companies

  • BSA fines Scottish council

  • Three firms fined for illegal software use

  • Graphics Software Makers Launch New Campaigns Against Piracy

  • Overland Kansas firm fined $200,000

  • Tucson Arizona firm fined $65,000

  • BSA fines firms using products they haven't paid for

  • Piracy watchdogs fine eight firms for unlicensed software

  • Royal Wolf fined $52,000 for illegal software

  • Company pays for unlicensed software


    • North American Enforcement Guidelines
  • Get advice before filing BSA audit

  • Texas software piracy rises

  • BSA calls for zero tolerance on software piracy

  • What are the repercussions of a BSA audit?

  • CAAST settles with eight Canadian companies for software piracy

  • To Catch A Thief

  • SIIA Announces First Cash Award to Software Piracy Whistleblower


    • Independent Licensing News
  • Considering Outsourcing? Managed licences may slip through the net

  • Piracy can sneak up on you

  • Digital downloads defeat piracy policies

  • Gartner Report: Software disposal: Old software never dies

  • Don’t gamble your company on unlicensed software

  • Know your software assets

  • Vendors clamp down on license compliance

  • Time bombs ticking in the cupboard

  • Gartner Report: Software Assets: Managing the Bottom Line

  • Agencies keep track of IT assets

  • Licensing: Software by the numbers

  • Software Vendors the New IRS?

  • SOFTWARE PIRACY: DON’T LET YOUR COMPANY BECOME AN EXAMPLE

  • Do Vendors Use Software Audits to Scare Up New Contracts?

  • Don’t Blow a Deal in Due Diligence: Add Software Licensing Compliance to Your Checklist

  • Cyber Cafe: Hard Facts About Software Licensing

  • Tell It to the Judge

  • Engineering CIOs find new ways to combat unlicensed software

  • New BSA Survey Indicates Campus Attitudes Invite Software Piracy

  • Keep track of your software licenses (University of Delaware)


    • News from Vendors
  • Chart: Vendors and their licensing policies

  • Microsoft warning over system piracy

  • Firms step-up software protection

  • Autodesk Steps Up Anti-Piracy Efforts

  • Recording industry sues students for illegal file-sharing

  • Software licensing - what's the problem?


    • General Licensing News
  • US free trade pact set to deter software piracy in Singapore

  • Top Ten Technology Resolutions for 2003

  • Microsoft loses showdown in Houston

  • Time to audit your software and cough up for licenses

  • South Africa: Software pirates get 90-day amnesty

  • MidEast to be 70 percent piracy-free


    • License Compliance in the United Kingdom
  • Software compliance: reducing the cost of ownership - fact or fiction?

  • Outsourcing : Got a software licence? Make sure your customers do too

  • User fury over Fast and BSA tactics

  • MPs call for independent software licensing body

  • Risks of unlicensed software escalate

  • Companies being 'bullied' into software audits

  • Software piracy – the BSA wants to help you to be compliant

  • Check software compliance following a merger, warns FAST

  • Unlicensed software use could mean prison