Bilgi Bilimine Zararları Açısından Telif Haklarının İhlali ve Vergi Kaçakçılığı Suçları

: Information professionals and information science experts should take into consideration the legal protection of research data and of the other types of information to protect the quality of such inputs that are being rapidly increased and acquired. Tax evasion is among those categories of crimes causing serious harms to the state and has both material and immaterial elements in which as a result financial sanctions are imposed on persons participating in such crimes according to the Turkish Criminal Code. Furthermore, the legislator may even foresee punitive fine and/or imprisonment in case of commitment of tax evasion crimes. Additionally, since tax evasion decreases the amount of the tax that the state receives the harm might be compensated by a monetary or a criminal sanction. Tax evasion crimes and the legal dimension of the sanctions imposed on this crime within the Turkish criminal system are discussed in detail in the literature. The current work applies a literature review method and the findings point that, there are crimes exist in Turkey related to the false methods applied in reproduction of the information resources and the tendency shown by some information professionals regarding copyright law ignorance. The study also focuses on the current legal sanctions against tax evasion crimes that seem problematic and raises some recommendations for solving these problems.