Therefore, even if you buy genuine software from a software company, the number of authorized copies, scope of use, use, etc. All contents of the software are within the scope of software authorization. Use beyond the scope is also infringement.
For example, your company only bought a set of design software from a software company, and the purchased software is authorized for general use by customers. However, in the actual use process, your company installed and used the software on several computers, or used the software in design, development and other fields, so this behavior went beyond the license scope authorized at the time of purchase and constituted infringement.
In this case, if the software company has an agreement, he can investigate the company according to the agreement.
If there is no agreement, then generally speaking, software companies have no right to directly investigate the company. However, if the software company has reason to believe that you have used his software, he can report it to the relevant state administrative organs for investigation. At present, the competent department in charge of software infringement in China is the copyright bureaus in various places.
After receiving the report, the Copyright Bureau will file a case to investigate the use of the company's software. These investigation companies have the obligation to cooperate, and the scope of investigation is not limited to a certain type of software reported, but will cover all software used by all computers of the company, including operating systems, office systems and industry software.
Finally, the Copyright Administration will make a final administrative decision on the basis of investigation. On the one hand, according to the use of pirated software, the company is given administrative punishment; On the other hand, for a certain type of reported software, mediation is carried out in compensation and other aspects. If the reported software does have infringement and mediation fails, the reported software company will file a lawsuit with the company according to the investigation results.
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