BSA

BSA may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

B.S.A Company

BSA Company Limited is the motorcycle manufacturer which purchased the rights to its BSA name from Birmingham Small Arms Company's successor, Dennis Poore's Manganese Bronze on the liquidation of Norton Villiers Triumph.

Origin

When NVT Motorcycles Limited was liquidated in 1978, its management, then under William Colquhoun, formed a new company - BSA Company and bought from NVT the rights to the BSA Motorcycle brand.

Military motorcycles

BSA Company produced military motorcycles (with Rotax engines) and motorcycles for developing countries (with Yamaha engines) under the BSA name. In the latter case the old "Bushman" name was recalled to duty;– it had previously been used on high ground clearance Bantams sold for the likes of Australian sheep farmers. Having moved from Small Heath to Coventry in 1973, Colquhoun moved it again in 1986 to Blockley in Gloucestershire, where production continued on its military and off road motorcycles - mostly then exported to African states.

Andover Norton

BSA (The Software Alliance)

The Software Alliance, also known as BSA, is a trade group established in 1988 and representing a number of the world's largest software makers and is a member of the International Intellectual Property Alliance. Its principal activity is trying to stop copyright infringement of software produced by its members. Founded as the "Business Software Alliance" it dropped the "Business" in October 2012, and styles itself "BSA | The Software Alliance".

It is funded through membership dues based on member company's software revenues, and through settlements from companies it successfully brings action against. Many Microsoft EULAs include a clause requiring users to agree to audits by software companies.

History

In 2013 Victoria Espinel resigned from the office of the United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) of the Office of Management and Budget and joined the staff of the BSA as its president.

Campaigns

Play It Cybersafe

"Play It Cyber Safe" campaign features an anti-piracy ferret for a mascot. Objectives of the campaign include: