The role of restrictiveness of use in determining ethical and legal awareness of unauthorized file sharing

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 521-549

  Hansen, Jared ^a   Walden, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Copyright; Deviance; Ethics; File Sharing Downloading; Intellectual Property; Marketing; MP3; Property Rights; Public Policy; Restrictiveness

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; PUBLIC POLICY;

DEVIANCE; FILE SHARING; FILE SHARING DOWNLOADING; INFORMATION GOODS; MP3; MUSIC FILES; ONE-FACTOR; POLICY MAKERS; PROPERTY RIGHT; RESTRICTIVENESS;

CRIME;

EID: 84885607371     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00342     Document Type: Article

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