Open AccessIntroducing the Copyright Anxiety Scale
Author(s) -
Amanda Wakaruk,
Céline Gareau-Brennan,
Matthew Pietrosanu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of copyright in education and librarianship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2473-8336
DOI - 10.17161/jcel.v5i1.15212
Subject(s) - anxiety , software deployment , scale (ratio) , copyright law , psychology , political science , internet privacy , computer science , law , intellectual property , geography , psychiatry , cartography , operating system
Navigating copyright issues can be frustrating to the point of causing anxiety, potentially discouraging or inhibiting legitimate uses of copyright-protected materials. A lack of data about the extent and impact of these phenomena, known as copyright anxiety and copyright chill, respectively, motivated the authors to create the Copyright Anxiety Scale (CAS). This article provides an overview of the CAS’s development and validity testing. Results of an initial survey deployment drawing from a broad cross-section of respondents living in Canada and the United States (n = 521) establishes that the phenomenon of copyright anxiety is prevalent and likely associated with copyright chill.