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When does deviance from the norm propel a career or stop it in its tracks? Call it law-breaking or call it creative license, in creative industries and occupations, intellectual property concerns can make or break reputations, careers, and companies. Ask the creators themselves whether something is deviant, illegal, or illegitimate and the answers aren鈥檛 simply yes or no, they鈥檙e varying shades of grey. In the electronic dance music community, for one, the enforcement of certain norms and legalities around intellectual property isn鈥檛 always up to the law鈥攊t鈥檚 up to the community.

In their recent research paper ",鈥� Desautels professor Amandine Ody-Brasier and her co-author, Copenhagen Business School professor Xu Li, discovered that within the electronic dance music (EDM) community, norms around unlawful activities such as illegal remixes are loose and often garner support, even career-launching acclaim鈥攄espite EDM鈥檚 global nature and each country having its own intellectual property laws.

鈥淲hat you consider deviant in one community may not be viewed as deviant in another community; it is in the eye of the beholder,鈥� explains Ody-Brasier. The exact same behaviors could be labeled differently. Her research asks how norms鈥攁ppropriate behaviors shared by community members鈥攁ffect careers and other economic outcomes in creative occupations.

鈥淚t doesn't make a lot of sense that you would be able to launch a career on an illegal product,鈥� adds Ody-Brasier, who decided to figure out why, in fact, it did make sense in the EDM community. Listen to the for more insights into why deviance and illegal activity in a creative community is often supported.

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