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The Law and Ethics of Digital Piracy: Evidence from Harvard Law School Graduates

Published: May 10, 2018, 8:37 p.m.

b'Harvard Law School is one of the top law schools in the world and educates the intellectual and financial elites. Lawyers are held to the highest professional and ethical standards. And yet, when it comes to digital piracy, they overwhelmingly perceive file sharing as an acceptable social practice \\u2013 as long as individuals do not derive monetary benefits from it. So should digital files be considered a commons? In this talk, Dariusz and Jerome identify and discuss the social and economic contexts in which file sharing is considered more or less acceptable by law practitioners. In the process, they foster a conversation on the possible changes in regulation that would allow us to catch up with the established social norm.\\n\\nLearn more about this event here:\\nhttps://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018/luncheon/05/Jemielniak_Herguex'