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Fig Leaf Software Case Study: National Education Association
White Papers Fig Leaf integrated the NEA Intranet Connect logo within the navigation bar and created a single graphic element that contains both the logo and the navigation bar so that all publishers can add this to the top of their table of contents.
[July 19, 2005, 0:00]
China Signs Licensing Pact With UK And US
News The associations include the Business Software Alliance and the Publishers Association in the UK, and the Association of American Publishers and the Motion Picture Association in the US. The National Copyright Association of China will now be the...
[December 15, 2006, 11:28]
Music Publishers File Latest Lawsuit
News A group representing music publishers and songwriters on Tuesday filed a federal suit against some makers of file-swapping software, marking the latest in a string of legal tangles over copyright infringement on the Internet.
[November 21, 2001, 10:02]
Analysis: Experts Agree Napster Cannot Be Stopped, Part II
News As the British Publishers Association's communications manager, Alex Webb, points out, "what this ultimately means is that the artist doesn't get paid. Laurence Westwood, manager for copyright and legal services at FAST, admits this dramatically...
[March 24, 2000, 12:30]
Latest Harry Potter Shared For Free Online
News Earlier this month, the Association of American Publishers, a trade association whose members include Scholastic and software publishers including Microsoft and Adobe, said it had participated in raids on Malaysian photocopy shops.
[June 26, 2003, 15:16]
Is Scour 'Napster With Movies'?
News Understandably, the members of the MPAA, the Recording Industry Association of America, and the National Music Publishers Association are not happy knowing they are missing out on some profits. That's the message that 30 major media companies...
[July 24, 2000, 8:56]
Napster Buyout Blocked
News The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) sought to block Bertelsmann's purchase on several grounds. As a result of the record companies' and music publishers' opposition, Napster's...
[September 4, 2002, 7:36]
Microsoft's Herbold Lands SIIA Board Position
News The group was formed out of a merger between the Information Industry Association and the Software Publishers Association, or SPA. Herbold has been elected to the board of the Software & Information Industry Association, or SIIA.
[April 28, 1999, 9:47]
Pirate Software Linked With Organised Crime
News Counterfeit software has been linked with organised crime and drug pushing by the European Leisure Software Publishers' Association (Elspa) following a series of raids by drug investigators in the UK.
[November 23, 2000, 6:08]
US Report: Go After Microsoft - SPA
News The Software Publishers Association Friday urged the U.S. Microsoft, the association said, has deliberately introduced incompatibilities between its desktop software and other companies' server software in order to force corporate customers to use NT.
[June 22, 1998, 9:37]
Police Smash UK's Biggest Pirate Software Operation
News In association with Birmingham City Trading Standards and investigators from the Crime Unit at European Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), the police raided a commercial computer shop in the Stetchford area of Birmingham.
[November 16, 1999, 11:53]
UK Gamemakers Take A Hit, Despite Record Sales
News New figures from the European Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) showed sales of game software hit 39.5 million units last year, making the market worth £924m. The squeeze has hit advertising budgets as well, taking a toll on consumer...
[January 19, 2001, 13:55]
Tiga Adds Teeth To UK Games Industry
News Representatives of the UK's independent video game developers say they hope to gain greater influence with software publishers and the government with the formation of a trade association, the Independent Games Developers Association (TIGA).
[March 14, 2001, 7:32]
News Burst: UK's Independent Computer Games Developers Unite
News Members of the UK's independent computer game developer community launched a trade association on Thursday that they hope will result in greater influence with software publishers and the government. Founder members of The Independent Games...
[March 8, 2001, 16:02]
Microsoft Quits Software Trade Group
News The SIIA, formerly known as the Software Publishers Association before its merger last year with the Information Industry Association, has been fairly quiet lately in terms of its views on Microsoft's impact on the software industry's competitive...
[March 10, 2000, 9:48]
'Hooligans' Game Condemned
News Violent video games will not make people violent or change their fundamental nature; but someone with a propensity for violent or anti-social behaviour could be influenced by them," according to Michael Rawlingson, general manager with the...
[September 15, 2000, 9:08]
Copy Protection Takes Stealth Approach
News Privately held Smarte Solutions is working with software publishers to incorporate its SmarteCD technology into their wares. Publishers of a shooting game, for example, could limit the copied disc to one level, or an image-editing package could...
[June 28, 2002, 12:06]
The Cast Of The Ongoing Peer-to-peer Drama
News Copyright holders: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) have been trying to force file-swapping software companies out of...
[June 28, 2005, 18:10]
Hollywood, Software Firms Aim At Pirates
News It says mail-order piracy is one of the growing contributors to an annual loss of $11bn, or about £6.7bn, in sales to software publishers globally. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Hollywood's chief trade association, brought 12...
[February 28, 2003, 7:56]
US Report: Microsoft Wizards To Thwart Pirates...
News Despite such efforts, piracy rates still average 40 percent worldwide, according to the latest numbers published in a study commissioned by the Business Software Association and the Software Publishers Association.
[December 14, 1998, 10:33]
