A survey of the effective factors on copyright violations by the internet users

One of the new technologies having a great impact on the human life is information technology (IT) which has led to some ethical challenges because of its fast growth. One of these challenges is the violation of intellectual property rights in the internet that causes destruction of moral values, economic losses and prevention of innovation in the society. Therefore, in this research after investigating the concepts of IT ethics and intellectual property rights, it has been attempted to determine the affecting factors on copyright violations in the internet by university students. Descriptive-correlation method has been used in this research and the data have been gathered using questionnaires. Statistical society of the research consists of the students of the faculty of New Sciences and technologies of the University of Tehran, while the sampling method has been simple random.In this study,data analyzed by t- tst. Pearson correlation and step regression. Some variables such as the extent of access to the internet, financial incapability to purchase cultural and software products and also moral attitude of students were found as the most effective factors on copyright violations. According to the results some policy recommendations such as financial support of intellectual products by the government, updating the laws of intellectual property and educating IT ethics to people are suggested as the most appropriate approaches to solve this problem.