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Software Anti-Piracy Policies & Procedures |
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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...
Do you want to take the first steps to making a difference in your piracy audit exposure? Want to help
your personnel understand and follow guidelines--guidelines that work? Then you should look
over this 3 page Knowledge Briefing from The Institute for Technology Asset Management: Crafting Effective Copyright Compliance-Related Policies & Procedures.
You'll need to sign in but it's free. There's nothing to buy. There is
no expense involved in improving your P&P processes. You get 100%
benefit using only a little common sense in the way you craft
and manage software anti-piracy and copyright compliance assurance
policies and procedures.
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