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Press Releases

18th March 2010
All eyes turn to the Commons as Lords pass bill to beat illicit file sharing : FAST warns against delay in the Commons

The Digital Economy Bill has passed its third reading in the House of Lords, and John Lovelock Ch – Read more...

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FAST IiS Events

Webinar: The Microsoft System Centre Suite - How to deal with the PEST (10-11am GMT)

While reducing IT operational costs is always a primary goal of an organisation's IT service, current economic conditions make those cost savings even more imp...
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Webinar: Key Trends in Software Licensing and Pricing (3-4pm GMT)

Join Flexera Software as they welcome Amy Konary of IDC to present the findings from the 2009 Key Trends in Software Licensing and Pricing Survey. During this web...
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Join WIBU Systems Secure Code and Software Licensing Seminar (Leeds, Yorks)

WIBU-SYSTEMS offers you the opportunity to participate in one of the special seminars programmed for this year: Code protection against illegal use Software...
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To view a full schedule of our up coming events please visit our Events area.

Software Industry Research Board (SIRB) A Cross Industry Collaborative Approach to the Effective Management of Software Software Publisher audits – are you at risk? Have you got enough licenses for the software you’re using? Emerging Technologies Do you know about the new stuff? Software Asset Management Blog Are you up to date on SAM? Legal Blog Cutting edge considerations of software IP law

Current Enforcement Activity:

  • Consideration of allegations against a large infrastructure project
  • Consideration of allegations against several web sites facilitating / offering for sale unauthorised copy software
  • Trading Standards enquiries being made further to allegations involving an NHS Trust

In September 2008 the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) and Investors in Software (IiS) joined forces to deliver a distilled, simplified and unified view of software asset management (SAM) and software license management (SLM) best practice to the end user community. Read more...

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