Non-profit organizations often use third-party images, photos, videos, or software in their everyday operations. It is often beneficial to leverage such materials that are licensed under “open ...

A recent case out of the Ninth Circuit, Oracle USA, Inc. v. Rimini Street, Inc. (July 13, 2017), illustrates some of the risks third party software vendors run concerning copyright issues. Oracle ...

The issue of compliance is forever on the minds of IT executives, and even more so in the last 10 years, due to increased audit activities by software vendors, complex licensing rules and the ...

Buying software is often a throw-away expense. Agencies purchase software licenses knowing they have no resale value. Software vendor Bentley Systems, which makes geographic information systems ...

“What is the point in obtaining a copyright in software? Not much, if Google can copy 11,500 lines of your code and it can still be a fair use. Copyrights just don ...

NASA faced another moon shot. This time, the civilian space ­agency’s monumental task was to help reduce government spending on software. For NASA, that meant eliminating duplicate software licenses ...