Copyright in light of ethics

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Professional Ethics, Copyright Legislation and the Case for Collective Copyright Disobedience in Libraries

“…Duty-based ethical theorists-or deontologists-believe people should follow societal rules rather than personal desires, no matter the consequences. According to duty-based ethics, whenever the law states we must act or not act in a certain way, then we must follow through (Aulisio, 2013). This is noted in Immanuel Kant's (1780) theory of ethics, which states that to act in the morally right way, people must act from duty.…”