BSA to Hold Press Conference to Release Study on Economic Impact of Piracy.This Thursday, December 8, Robert Holleyman Robert W. Holleyman II is President & CEO of the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the trade consortium which represents the interests of major software houses in the world, and has been in this role since 1990. of the Business Software Alliance (BSA 1. BSA - Business Software Alliance. 2. BSA - Bidouilleurs Sans Argent. ) will release the findings of a worldwide study on the global economic impact of software piracy The illegal copying of software for distribution within the organization, or to friends, clubs and other groups, or for duplication and resale. The software industry loses billions of dollars each year to piracy, and although it may seem innocent enough to install an application on a . Mr. Holleyman will be joined by Chris Israel, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy at the U.S. Department of Commerce and by John Gantz, the Chief Research Officer at the International Data Corporation (IDC), to discuss how reducing piracy can provide significant economic benefits. The BSA-commissioned study is the only examination of its kind, assessing the IT sector's economic impact in 70 countries worldwide and the benefits that accrue to countries that tighten and enforce their intellectual property laws and work to educate the public about the impact of piracy.
What: Press Conference to Unveil BSA-IDC
Global Economic Impact Study on Piracy Reduction
Who: Robert Holleyman, President and CEO,
Chris Israel, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of
Commerce
John Gantz, Chief Research Officer, International Data
Corporation
When: Thursday, December 8
9:30 a.m.
Breakfast will be served
Where: Peter Lisagor Room
National Press Club
529 14th Street N.W., 13th Floor
Washington, DC
About BSA The Business Software Alliance (www.bsa.org) is the foremost organization dedicated to promoting a safe and legal digital world. BSA is the voice of the world's commercial software industry and its hardware partners before governments and in the international marketplace. Its members represent one of the fastest growing industries in the world. BSA programs foster technology innovation through education and policy initiatives that promote copyright protection, cyber security, trade and e-commerce. BSA members include Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Avid, Bentley Systems, Borland, Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. , Cisco Systems, CNC Software/Mastercam, Dell, Entrust, HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel, Internet Security Systems, Macromedia, McAfee, Microsoft, PTC (PTC, Needham, MA, www.ptc.com) Long a world leader in mechanical computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering software, PTC, through acquisitions and reorganization, has transformed itself into a leading provider of Internet-based B2B solutions for discrete manufacturers. , RSA Security, SAP, SolidWorks, Sybase, Symantec, Synopsys, The MathWorks, and UGS UGS In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Uganda Shilling. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. . |
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