Fatkat Animation Studios in Miramichi, N.B., has been fined $36,000 for software piracy.
The commercial animation and graphics studio was among five companies fined under the Canadian Copyright Act after an investigation by the Business Software Alliance.
The alliance conducts investigations into alleged under-licensing of software. That's a form of copyright infringement, which sees a single copy of software used to install a program on multiple computers without proper authorization.
Internal audits revealed Fatkat ran unlicensed copies of Microsoft and Autodesk programs.
Fatkat Animation's founder Gene Fowler said the infringement by his company was due to an oversight.
"Somebody that wasn’t very experienced was perhaps purchasing or installing the software, and they got themselves in the position where they weren’t licensed properly. It does happen," Fowler said Wednesday.
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Fatkat Animation Studios fined for software piracy
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