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 We're proud to offer you a new online calculator to provide a conservative estimate of the revenue loss (and the compliance opportunity) attributed on a regional level to unlicensed software use in the first year of a new compliance program.
Simply choose the region you are interested in, and enter the approximate number of seats installed in the region, the price per seat and any channel margin, and you will see your estimated opportunity.
Plug in your numbers and see what the impact could be on your bottom line.
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Sometimes the Best Defense is a Good Offense
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This was an intriguing year for professional football, one in which the old adage of "defense wins championships" has been sorely tested. Of the final four playoff teams, the two teams with top five defenses, Baltimore and San Francisco (#3 and #4 in regular season yards allowed/game) lost to the teams with defenses ranked in the bottom six (New England and the New York Giants).
What does this have to do with software compliance? Interestingly, many software companies still rely solely on licensing to defend their intellectual property, without using an offensive compliance strategy as an integral part of their defensive plan.
Consider the following statement:
We may not be able to protect our intellectual property rights (including our source code) from third-party infringers, or unauthorized copying, use, disclosure or malicious attack.
Every listed ISV has some variation of this warning on the business risk of illegal use in their Annual Report, but few actually embrace a compliance strategy in order to fulfill that obligation. The truth for many software companies (listed or private) is that they can't protect their intellectual property rights using just licensing from infringers, nor is it realistic to expect them to legally defend their rights given the lack of uniform intellectual property law and enforcement globally.
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2012 License Compliance and Software Piracy Panel Discussion
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Did you miss our Annual License Compliance and Software Piracy Panel Discussion with General Counsel from SIIA and FAST?
Watch this on demand discussion to learn:
- Latest Trends: Profiles of the average business that is using unlicensed software, policies and laws, geographic data, and more
- New Approaches on Compliance: How to encourage customers to buy licensed software; determining the value of whistleblower campaigns
- Investigating the Piracy Channels: Different techniques to identify infringers
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