Sarah Coombes

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Sarah Coombes is Managing Director, EMEA with the Business Software Alliance, over-seeing the BSA’s anti-piracy efforts in Europe, Middle-East and Africa. Before joining the BSA in 2005 to head up the BSA’s legal affairs team in EMEA, Sarah was an IP Litigator at Field Fisher Waterhouse in London, where she was made Partner in 2001. Sarah gained her law degree at the University of New South Wales in Australia.

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Increasing the Use of Legal Software Will Drive Economic Growth

(0) Comments | Posted May 23, 2013 | 6:09 AM

In the information age, software is an essential tool of production. It generates value for individual businesses and entire economies by boosting productivity and accelerating output. But does it make a difference whether the software is properly licensed or pirated?

A new study conducted by the global business school...

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Unmasking the Hidden Market

(0) Comments | Posted November 14, 2012 | 5:38 AM

Sarah Coombes, Managing Director, Anti-Piracy, EMEA, BSA | The Software Alliance argues that the software industry as a whole is currently being undermined by a a few bad apples who are actively promoting the wrong kinds of software licenses in order to secure a deal.

The Exchequer...

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Since When Was Stealing Software Acceptable?

(0) Comments | Posted July 2, 2012 | 12:23 PM

The civil damages regime in the UK needs an overhaul to stop software theft harming the economy, innovation and future job creation.

Software piracy in the UK is rife. In fact a consumer survey, commissioned by Business Software Alliance (BSA), found that over a quarter (27%) of personal...

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