Are your corporate policies & procedures (P&Ps) genuinely
effective? If not, your company is wide open to an entire series of
very costly software piracy or copyright violation audits. In general,
P&Ps relating to the acquisition and use of copyright protected
products are either non-existent; or they are not communicated; or they
are not enforced. The result? You and your company are wide open to software audits as well as enforcement audits from any of the 26+ US (or 100+ global) copyright enforcement entities.
Here is the bottom line: Companies that do not have or do not enforce copyright-related policies and procedures will invariably wind up paying enormous fines and penalties when they are audited. And, with whistle-blower rewards up to $1,000,000, they WILL be audited--frequently by more than one copyright holder. After the audit(s), those same companies will be required to create and enforce these policies and procedures as part of their respective settlements. Do you want to reduce your exposure to six figure (plus) audit penalties by being proactive? If so--read on.
If not...
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Go Ahead and Declare Technology Interdependence from your Shadow IT Environment: But, if you don’t do it carefully, you are in for a world of software piracy audit hurt.
I’ve been following the series of CIO Magazine articles addressing the realities of Shadow IT and, until, “The Declaration of Interdependence” appeared in the July issue, the logic was pretty solid. However, as I read this article, I could easily visualize the collective drooling of the well-funded and incredibly powerful copyright enforcement industry players across the country. If ever there was a commentary that literally guaranteed a punitive software piracy audit, this would be it.
“If I were an employee of one of the enforcement groups I would frame this material and hang it proudly in my office as a reminder of how secure my profession is and how very wealthy I will become.”
Here is why I am extremely concerned with the underlying message this article conveys: IT professionals, as a whole, do not have any idea how easily they expose their company—and their own professional futures—when they “…secure the network and (do) not worry about client devices…” or “...so I protect the institution, not the individual…”
“Sorry, Dave, but here be some serious legal dragons!”
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When it comes to software piracy prevention audits, your ability to conduct and document your compliance with copyright can easily translate into tens--even hundreds--of thousands of dollars in losses or in savings. Conduct & document the enforcement audit correctly and you have little to worry about in terms of pirated software. Conduct and document incorrectly and you will get caught pirating software or music and you'll find yourself paying six figure fines and even more massive costs and penalties.
Read on to find some straight talk about how not to get caught in the anti piracy audit dragnet. You can also view a quick Flash presentation detailing many of your options for not getting caught in the piracy vise. (or should that be vice?)
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Whether the advertised reward is $10,000, or $200,000, or $1,000,000, the odds are good that one of your current or former employees has been tempted to make the call to the Software Police or Copyright Cops.
The reality of these pie-in-the-sky reward offers represents a small but important problem: Essentially, for a majority of whistle-blower hopefuls--it isn't going to happen. Most personnel who report piracy are lucky to receive even a small percentage of these rewords.
However, the advertised anti piracy rewards method certainly works in drawing in those who hope to reap financial benefit from your licensing mistakes. If you are logged in, follow the link to the Briefing: Joe Doesn't Work Here Anymore . If you are not logged in, please do so, then follow the link to the members' Knowledge Briefings.
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