Online and physical appropriation: evidence from a vignette experiment on copyright infringement

Michal Krawczyk, Joanna Tyrowicz and Wojciech Hardy

No 33, GRAPE Working Papers from GRAPE Group for Research in Applied Economics

Abstract: This study employs a vignette experiment to inquire, which features of online "piracy" make it ethically discernible from a traditional theft. This question is pertinent since the social norm concerning traditional theft is starkly different from the evidence on ethical evaluation of online "piracy". We specifically distinguish between contextual features of theft, such as for example the physical loss of an item, breach of protection, availability of alternatives, emotional proximity to the victim of theft, etc. We find that some of these dimensions have more weight in ethical judgment, but there are no clear differences between online and traditional theft which could explain discrepancy in the frequency of commitment.

Keywords: online piracy; ethical judgment; vignette experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 O16 P45 P52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2018
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-ict, nep-ipr and nep-pay
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Journal Article: Online and physical appropriation: evidence from a vignette experiment on copyright infringement (2020)
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