Is it theft or sampling? Student attitudes on the copying of commercial software and music

Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference, ISECON

Volumn 23, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Siegfried, Robert M ^a   Ashley, Allan S ^b  

^a Department of Mathematics and Computer Science ^*  (United States)

^b ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer ethics; Digital piracy; Intellectual property; Music piracy; Student attitude

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; COMPUTER ETHICS; DIGITAL PIRACY; ETHICAL DILEMMA; MUSIC PIRACY; MUSIC RECORDING; STUDENT ATTITUDES;

AUDIO RECORDINGS; COMPUTER CRIME; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SALES; SURVEYS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84870475971     PISSN: 21671435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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