esult of enforcementactions resulted in recoveries from anti-piracy actions totaling $16 millionsince the program started in 1990.The Software Publishers Association (SPA) funds an educational program toinform individuals and corporations about software use and the law. Thisprogram provides all PC users with the tools needed to comply with copyrightlaw and become software legal. The SPA also publishes brochures free of chargeabout the legal use of software for individuals and businesses. Alsoavailable to help corporations understand the copyright law is a 12-minutevideotape, which is composed of the most commonly asked questions and answersto them. The video tape is available in French and Spanish and all togetherover 35,000 copies of the tape had been sold.The SPA has also compiled a free Self-Audit Kit with which organizations canexamine their software use practices. Included in the kit, is a softwareinventory management program designed to help an organization track theircommercial software programs that are on all their hard disks. The programsearches the PC's hard disk for more than 1300 of the most common programs usedin business.Also available is the SPA Software Management Guide which helps companies audittheir current software policies, educate employees about the legal use ofsoftware, and establish procedures to purchase, register, upgrade and backupcomputing systems. The guide, in addition, provides an Internal ControlsAnalysis and Questionnaire. The guide also contains all of the SPA's currentanti-piracy materials.The software industry is facing the challenges of more sophisticated networkenvironments, greater competition among software companies along with hardwaremanufacturers. At this moment more software than ever before is distributed ona high volume, mass marketed basis. There are many types of software out onthe market and the amount is increasing every day. They range from graphicaluser interfaces for app...
