The BSA Tuesday announced that Payless ShoeSource, a national discount shoe store retail chain, paid BSA $124,057 to settle claims that it had unlicensed copies of Adobe, Autodesk, Borland, Internet Security Systems, McAfee and Symantec software programs installed on its computers.

In addition, according to the BSA, national department store retail chain Burlington Coat Factory paid the BSA $300,000 to settle claims that it had unlicensed copies of Microsoft and McAfee software programs installed on its computers.

Officials could be reached for comment at either company.

"Burlington Coat Factory understands the importance of software asset management," the retailer's CIO, Brad Friedman, said in a statement. "We have created a new software management policy and continue to refine its implementation to emphasize the importance of understanding each software company's licensing requirements and using only fully licensed software. We also note that when these issues arose, effective corrective action was taken as soon as they came to management's attention.

"We are confident that all our software has been fully and appropriately licensed since then," Friedman said.