Software Piracy in Research: A Moral Analysis.
Researchers in virtually every discipline rely on sophisticated proprietary software for their work. However, some researchers are unable to afford the licenses and instead procure the software illegally. We discuss the prohibition of software piracy by intellectual property laws, and argue that the...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 967 - 978 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=103737049&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 103737049 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 13533452 GNI jtl: Science & Engineering Ethics issn: 13533452 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2015 vid: 21 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 103737049 10.1007/s11948-014-9573-5 ppf: 967 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 360KB tig: atl: Software Piracy in Research: A Moral Analysis. aug: au: Santillanes, Gary Felder, Ryan affil: Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University, 4400 Vestal Parkway East Binghamton 13902-6000 USA su: Software piracy Software license agreements Software protection Intellectual property Copyright sug: subj: Software piracy Software license agreements Software protection Intellectual property Copyright keyword: Crowdfunding Fair use Open source software Rule consequentialism ab: Researchers in virtually every discipline rely on sophisticated proprietary software for their work. However, some researchers are unable to afford the licenses and instead procure the software illegally. We discuss the prohibition of software piracy by intellectual property laws, and argue that the moral basis for the copyright law offers the possibility of cases where software piracy may be morally justified. The ethics codes that scientific institutions abide by are informed by a rule-consequentialist logic: by preserving personal rights to authored works, people able to do so will be incentivized to create. By showing that the law has this rule-consequentialist grounding, we suggest that scientists who blindly adopt their institutional ethics codes will commit themselves to accepting that software piracy could be morally justified, in some cases. We hope that this conclusion will spark debate over important tensions between ethics codes, copyright law, and the underlying moral basis for these regulations. We conclude by offering practical solutions (other than piracy) for researchers. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Science & Engineering Ethics is a copyright of Springer, 2015. All Rights Reserved. item: Science & Engineering Ethics holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2015 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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