The European Commission, by contracting other companies to work on copyright-protected software, was found liable for copyright infringement to the tune of 12 million euros. The EC sought contractors to carry out improvement work on software previously provided by Systrans, in breach of that company's intellectual property rights. Colleges and universities should be careful that the terms and conditions of the procurement of software allows for any adaptation they wish to make in future, and whether such adaptation can be outsourced if desired. For more information on this case, visit the Out-Law website at http://www.out-law.com/page-11674, and for more information on procurement in general, visit our fellow JISC Advance service, Procureweb, at http://www.procureweb.com/.