Contrary to what you may believe, purchasing software rarely means you own it. In reality, the software most often still belongs to the company or developer and what you purchase is a software license ...

Does software have copyright? Even more specifically, is the Internet free inspite of software copyright? Are software programming languages free of cost? How does copyright apply to software? A ...

Software licensing costs are set to fall over the next decade as IT industry trends converge to give buyers more bargaining power. Analyst Gartner predicts vendors will find themselves increasingly ...

Software licence agreements are extremely common, particularly in the start-up world. If you’re reading this on a PC or mobile device, you will have entered into an end user licence agreement (EULA) ...

The district court of Hamburg has ruled against SAP, over its case against a German second-user software license reseller. The court’s decision builds on a 2012 European Court of Justice landmark ...

Many organisations can cut spending on software by as much as 30% by implementing three software licence optimisation best practices, according to Gartner. The keys to reducing software licence ...

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The essential protection of software stems from intellectual property rights, primarily copyright. When the UK left the European Union (EU), at a superficial level nothing changed because the essence ...

This is a guide to how to license research software. It collects together the advice we give to researchers on how to license research software. It is not exhaustive. Please get in touch if you think ...

Inflation is a challenge faced by many businesses, particularly for those organisations that need to purchase internationally based IT solutions. The prospect of having to buy IT software in dollars, ...