"Schools & Institutions" - Educational Software Licensing Liability for Schools by G.C. Hutson

Schools, colleges, and institutions are extremely vulnerable to software license audits and lawsuits because they have elements working against them, that most organizations don't have to manage.

It simply takes one disgruntled student or faculty member to make a call to the Business Software Alliance, the SIIA or in-house legal department with a big software company to spark an adversarial software license audit.

The claims do not need to be valid or based in reality for an auditing group to inquire about your license status. In fact, many claims made by students and faculty are done out of spite, and reported anonymously.

Most disgruntled students and staff would make a report out of spite. To encourage such reporting, the Business Software Alliance (www.bsa.org) offers a $1,000,000 reward to disgruntled/terminated persons who make claims.

The only way to know that you are compliant, is to conduct certified, internal audits on a regular basis.

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• software piracy
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• schools
• institution
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• siia
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• g.c. Hutson