licensing in comment and analysis
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment Amazon discovered that a third-party publisher had added the novels to Amazon's library without having secured the necessary licensing rights to sell them. And that will keep the lawyers plenty busy, says Callum Sinclair. [27 Oct 2009]
Warren East
AS Profile Another panellist pointed to the pervasiveness of ARM's chips - something the company has achieved by licensing its IP to partners, rather than having its own fabs with all the associated cost and risk. [29 Sep 2009]
Karen Price
AS Profile Price has been with e-skills UK since the beginning - leading the mergers that created the organisation in 2000, and steering it through its subsequent licensing as a Sector Skills Council in 2003. As CEO of e-skills UK,... [29 Sep 2009]
Minority Report: Why Apple was smart to OK 'iTunes killer'
Comment The subscription model for devices such as the iPhone seem far more compelling given the wide range of licensing arrangements that exist, the growth of fast mobile bandwidth such as 3G and the rise of the iPhone and... [03 Sep 2009]
Virtualisation: Get the contract right
Comment Virtualisation offers enhanced ways to use redundant processing power but because of the inherent ambiguity in the licensing structure, drafting implications for the agreement must be crystal clear. One of the key... [12 Aug 2009]
Cloud computing: Is it worth the legal risks?
Comment First, cloud computing challenges current methods of licensing and payment. But this means there are additional security and legal issues to address, as the licensing model is quite different and... [22 Jul 2009]
Next stop HMRC: How TfL CIO will shake up the taxman
Comment Pavitt said thin client technology gives an excellent oversight of the IT infrastructure, describing how it has pinpointed that money was being wasted on licensing for 382 staff for an application that was being used by... [26 Jun 2009]
Minority Report: Laptop Hunters on a par with drunken uncles
Comment Its business model is all about licensing; Apple's is most certainly not. In recent years Apple's advertising strategy has been spearheaded by the Get a Mac ads, amusing little skits between an anthropomorphised Mac and... [23 Apr 2009]
Editor's Blog: Crisis of confidence for CIOs
Comment When CIOs come together to tackle an issue that faces them all - as they have done on the subject of software licensing, for instance - they can be a formidable opponent. Bad news - the reputation of the CIO is in pretty... [02 Dec 2008]
Minority Report: Mac clones doomed?
Comment The Apple vs Mac clones battle rages on - but will it change Apple's mind about licensing Mac OS X? The company's Mac OS X end-user licensing agreement forbids users from installing the operating system... [24 Nov 2008]
Naked CIO: When vendors go too far
Comment At no time during the discussions around our purchase had compliance been mentioned as an issue and at no point had anyone raised the fact that we may have compliance issues with the current licensing. [27 Oct 2008]
Minority Report: Apple - bring back the lawyers
Comment In a Q&A session at the end, Jobs and others disclosed that Blu-ray is a licensing hell hole which they'll stay clear of until it calms down and netbooks represent a 'nascent market' that is just finding its feet. [15 Oct 2008]
Legal Eye: Do we need GPLv3?
Comment It is also an anti-Microsoft (and other traditional software companies) model in that traditional licensing models support proprietary rights, licensed many times over by non-exclusive licensing agreements. [15 Oct 2008]
Warren East
AS Profile Through its IP licensing partner programme, ARM processors are found in a range of Apple, LG, Nokia and Sony Ericsson smart phones as well as sat-nav devices, video cameras, digital TVs and the Nintendo DS portable... [07 Oct 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: License this software
Comment Mismanaging software licensing can lead to extra costs and damaged reputations. For example, the growing popularity of virtualisation and increasing employee mobility mean IT departments are under further pressure to... [18 Sep 2008]
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