Its easy to think of software licensing and copy protection as little more than “insurance”:  a part of the business that is necessary to protect against misfortune – but doesn’t really add much to the bottom line when things…

Avistar is a leader in the desktop visual communications market. The company was founded…

Many ISV start ups looking at software licensing and copy protection issues are tempted by wrapper solutions.  There are 3 main reasons for this:

• Wrappers are cheap
• Wrappers are easy to deploy
• You don’t need access to

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This case study shows how NIK Software dealt with 3 key software licensing challenges, which many ISV’s will recognise.

NIK Software Inc is a privately held US company that…

YouTube has always had a ready supply of pirated music and movies, but now Digital Inspiration reports that pirated software is also prominent on the content sharing site.

People are using the YouTube site to

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I am sure that by now you have all seen the many column inches which have been devoted to the revelation that the US’s much publicized intellectual property theft and software piracy statistics may not be entirely accurate.…

Just a very quick post to let you know that you can now catch up with all the latest Software Licensing, copy protection and software piracy news whist you are out and about as SoftwareLicensing.tv is now available on…

This is an interesting software licensing case study.

SoftCafe are a great example of how an ISV can succeed by really understanding a niche market. The company was founded in 1994 and…

For e-book readers, the future looks confusing in a market where copy

Wausau Steel Corporation have paid $144,000 in an out of court settlement on Software…