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Actually, we're 100% serious about this one. In late 1999, we encountered a company that had violated the terms & conditions of a software license because the networked product was being accessed from a remote site that was more than 15 miles from the server room.
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Corporations around the globe are being confronted for piracy—or software license non compliance—on a daily basis. The 26+ American and nearly 100 global copyright enforcement groups have a virtual carte blanche to literally batter down your door in their search for copyright violations. Unfortunately for those of us who are business technology consumers, the rules are in favor of the copyright holders. More to the point, our own business practices could easily be setting us up for the kill.
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You better be. Quite frankly, if you let anything slip—however innocently—you could easily become public enemy number one. Think Osama Bin Laden is the bad guy? He is nothing compared to those dastardly villainous copyright thieves who are stealing operating systems, software, fonts, graphics, music, video, games—the very fabric of the free world. (Yes: I am being sarcastic with this.) Let's talk about how you can keep yourself and your company off the Ten Most Wanted List and, incidentally, out of the piracy press releases.
Complying with copyright is quite simple, really. You merely have to know precisely what copyrighted products you actually have loaded on every single computing device; know precisely what you are legally entitled to have loaded; know precisely how you are licensed to use each copyrighted item; and know the location of every scrap of paper relating to licensing and acquisition is located. Pretty easy, right? Oh, wait a second. I nearly forgot: You will have to be able to prove every single one of the items on that list and you’ll have to be prepared to do so every single day.
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Understanding License Terms & Conditions
Right to Audit Clause
Virtually all significant software licenses contain a right to audit clause. The clause generally reads something like this:
“The software publisher (copyright holder), or its representative, has the right to audit the licensee for compliance.”
There are several major problems with this clause—as it is written above. We'll step through a few of them.
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