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dc.creatorFast, Anne A.
dc.creatorOlson, Kristina R.
dc.creatorMandel, Gregory N.
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-05T19:44:31Z
dc.date.available2021-05-05T19:44:31Z
dc.date.issued2016-05-05
dc.identifier.citationAnne A. Fast, Kristina R. Olson, & Gregory N. Mandel, Experimental Investigations on the Basis for Intellectual Property Rights, 40 Law & Hum. Behav. 458 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000187
dc.identifier.issn0147-7307
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/6326
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/6344
dc.description.abstractLay people routinely misunderstand or do not obey laws protecting intellectual property (IP), leading to a variety of (largely unsuccessful) efforts by policymakers, IP owners, and researchers to change those beliefs and behaviors. The current work tests a new approach, inquiring whether lay people’s views about IP protection can be modified by arguments concerning the basis for IP rights. Across 2 experiments, 572 adults (recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk) read 1 of 6 arguments about the basis for IP protection (incentives, natural rights, expressive rights, plagiarism, commons, or no argument). Participants then reported their general support for IP protection. Participants also reported their evaluations of 2 scenarios that involved infringement of IP rights, including cases in which there were mitigating experiences (e.g., the copier acknowledged the original source), and completed several demographic questions. Three primary findings emerged: (a) exposure to the importance of the public commons (and to a lesser extent, exposure to the argument that plagiarism is the basis of IP protection) led participants to become less supportive of IP protection than the incentives, natural rights, expressive rights, and control conditions; (b) people believed that infringement was more acceptable if the infringer acknowledged the original creator of the work; and (c) older adults and women were especially likely to see infringement as problematic. These findings illustrate several ways in which lay beliefs are at odds with legal doctrine, and suggest that people’s views about IP protection can be shaped in certain ways by learning the basis for IP rights.
dc.format.extent61 pages
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofFaculty/ Researcher Works
dc.relation.haspartLaw and Human Behavior, Vol. 40, No. 4
dc.relation.isreferencedbyAmerican Psychological Association
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.subjectIntellectual property
dc.subjectCopyright
dc.subjectPatent
dc.subjectPlagiarism
dc.subjectCreative commons
dc.titleExperimental Investigations on the Basis for Intellectual Property Rights
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dc.type.genrePost-print
dc.relation.doihttps://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000187
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dc.description.schoolcollegeTemple University. James E. Beasley School of Law
dc.temple.creatorMandel, Gregory N.
refterms.dateFOA2021-05-05T19:44:31Z


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