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The Property in Intellectual Property: Reputation Is Harder to Share Than Ideas.

Grégoire Darcy¹, Mia Karabegovic², Hugo Mercier¹

¹Institut Jean Nicod, Département d'études cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, EHESS, CNRS.

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Summary

Intellectual property (IP) law compliance falters because people prioritize reputational fairness over legal rules. Moral judgments on IP issues, like plagiarism and AI content, hinge on who gets credit, not just legal ownership.

Keywords:

Intellectual property Legal Compliance Moral Intuition Psychology of Ownership Reputation management

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Law
Sociology

Background:

Intellectual property (IP) law aims to foster innovation but faces widespread non-compliance.
This gap between legal mandates and public morality may stem from differing intuitions about fairness and credit.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the role of reputation misattribution in shaping moral judgments regarding intellectual property.
To determine if moral evaluations of IP issues align with reputational fairness, independent of legal status.

Main Methods:

Experimental manipulation of reputation misattribution in plagiarism scenarios (Study 1).
Extension of findings to diverse IP contexts, including pseudonymous publication, ghostwriting, and AI-generated content (Study 2).

Main Results:

Moral judgments significantly shift with even minor alterations in how credit is allocated.
Reputation misallocation consistently predicts moral evaluations across various IP contexts, irrespective of legal standing.

Conclusions:

Public moral intuitions about IP are strongly influenced by perceived fairness in credit attribution.
Aligning IP law with reputational fairness could enhance compliance and legitimacy in IP governance.