Top Harvard lawyers don’t think making and sharing unauthorised digital copies is theft – Walled Culture

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Summary:

"Our study reveals that law professionals, with raised professional ethics standards and expectations toward lawabiding behavior, highly above average understanding of law, and higher than average socio-economic status, do not equate digital piracy with physical theft, and are generally very tolerant or even supportive of it....

There is the shared sense that digital goods differ from physical goods, and that this constitutes a basis for new societal norms to emerge: while they ‘would never do anything illegal elsewhere’ [Interview 36], pirating digital content is treated morally differently and morally acceptable...."

Link:

https://walledculture.org/top-harvard-lawyers-dont-think-making-and-sharing-unauthorised-digital-copies-is-theft/

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oa.new oa.harvard.u hu.oa oa.copyright oa.law oa.usa oa.ethics

Date tagged:

06/30/2022, 11:37

Date published:

06/30/2022, 07:37