Vondran Legal® Software Licensing Defense. Business Software Alliance ("BSA") back in the unlicensed software licensing game? Call us if you received an audit demand letter at (877) 276-5084.
Introduction
Vondran Legal® has been dealing with Siemens software handling license compliance disputes for many years now. Siemens is known to file lawsuits and pursue infringers, whether individuals or companies. They are also a member of the Business Software Alliance (located in Washington, D.C.), a software trade association for major software publishers, such as (per last I checked):
- Adobe
- Amazon Web Services
- Atlassian
- Autodesk
- Cloudflare
- Cisco
- Dropbox
- IBM
- Microsoft
- Nikon
- Oracle
- SAP
- Salesforce
- Siemens
- Zoom
And many others.
The BSA may send you a legal demand letter informing you of the legal repercussions of using unlicensed software on behalf of their members. In the old days (2019), the BSA hit business owners hard on the unlicensed use of Microsoft and Adobe software. Vondran Legal® was a leader in handling these software audits and alleged infringement cases.
The BSA "love letter"
If you received a letter like this, call us. As you can see below, their letter is a bit threatening, noting potential criminal copyright action and all (which is not very likely and appears designed to scare the recipient).
A look at the BSA letter (we refer to it affectionately as "the love letter."
If you receive a letter, don't panic; these cases can often be resolved amicably. I hope this short blog has shed some light on the situation.
Contact Vondran Legal®, a software dispute law firm
If you need help with a software licensing issue, an infringement demand letter, or federal court litigation defending against claims of software infringement, contact us. We are perhaps the number one firm in the United States handling these matters, and we have resolved approximately a thousand or more of these types of copyright infringement cases. Call us at (877) 276-5084 or fill out the contact form on the right side of this page and we will reach out to you.
