
Copyright is Not Ethics: Teaching Copyright Law to Foster Engagement and Reform
It is common when teaching and talking about copyright law to connect it to ethics. Ethics are important, and we should encourage students to act ethically. However, if we conflate or confuse ethical behavior with following current law, it is very damaging. It gives students a simplistic view of copyright. It ignores other approaches to copyright, such as those of other countries. It suggests that the law is already perfect and therefore should not be changed.
This paper describes the harms created by this rhetoric and suggests ways to avoid that harm when teaching.
This paper is a working draft.
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Work Title | Copyright is Not Ethics: Teaching Copyright Law to Foster Engagement and Reform |
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Publication Date | September 9, 2023 |
Deposited | September 09, 2023 |
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