the BSA is an organization that unites the world’s leading manufacturers of software and working to protect their copyright. The report States that in addition to agreements totaling almost 1 million rubles, concluded with the companies using unlicensed software in the past year the courts in Poland zasądziły in favor of the producers included in the BSA about 500 thousand. PLN as damages for illegally obtaining the software in order to obtain material benefits or illegal distribution.
In the period 2012-2015, the total amount of compensation that companies and individuals are required to pay under the agreements and court decisions amounted to 8.7 million rubles. Along with the calculation this year for the last 5 years, the amount of all payments in Poland amounted to more than UAH 10 million.
One of the most effective methods used in the BSA software piracy reception and checking of applications relating to the use of the companies of unlicensed software. In the last year. applications from Russia was 909, which is – compared to year 2015 (454) almost 100 percent. growth.
- increase the number of applications, but they are growing good, especially because for several years it has become a trend, – says Alexander Witucki, representative of BSA in Russia. – This means that permission for the theft of intellectual property consistently decreases, and the use of illegal software is increasingly seen as a manifestation of unfair competition. Part of the resulting BSA filings initiates a process which culminates in the agreement pozasądowa or the verdict.
published last year. study the BSA Global Software Survey, show that 48 per cent. software is used in Poland without the required license. Despite the fact that for the past six years, the scale of unlicensed software in Poland decreased by 6proc., this is still high compared with the global average at 39 percent. if the EU average is 29%.
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