Introducing the Copyright Anxiety Scale

Navigating copyright issues can be frustrating to the point of causing anxiety, potentially discouraging or inhibiting legitimate uses copyright-protected materials. A lack data about extent and impact these phenomena, known as anxiety chill, respectively, motivated authors create Copyright Anxiety Scale (CAS). This article provides an overview CAS’s development validity testing. Results initial survey deployment drawing from a broad cross-section respondents living in Canada United States (n = 521) establishes that phenomenon is prevalent likely associated with chill.