The aim of this dissertation is to study the current practice and to propose the development of an adequate strategy for managing the ethical issues regarding the copyright in higher education publishing. The developed information and communication technologies (ICT) affect the current practice of spreading and further usage of the research results in future scientific research and teaching within the academic community. The aim of higher education institutions is to expand the knowledge and make it available to the wider community through the possibility of using ICT. It is emphasized that the advanced IC technologies actualize ethical issues related to the protection of research results and their publication. This dissertation is focused on the ethical aspect of copyright, the information ethics, and seeks the answer to the question whether the higher education system stakeholders express the interest, but also concern about the way the content protected by the copyright is used. The intent is to determine whether the authors’ works are used and distributed in the ethically appropriate manner. The legal framework is established in the dissertation, the examples of good practice within higher education institutions are presented and through the questionnaire the views of users regarding the ethical issues the author production of literary, scientific or artistic works and the use of those contents are examined. It is emphasized that the intention of this dissertation is not an analysis of regulations in the field of copyright and in the area of the related rights, nor possible adjustments to the requirements of the new technologies. The intention is to provide information on what examples of the best practice should be encouraged and incorporated into the system of the higher education community in Republic of Croatia. This dissertation is motivated by the desire to identify to what extent the moral dimension applied to the focus of consideration the copyright. The research was conducted on the two samples: a) regulations (national, international and subordinate regulations of the institutions); b) members of the academic community (scientists, editors of scientific university journals and students). The research was conducted at two levels: e) analysis of the published documents on the website of the University of Zadar and the four European universities (relating to the copyright); f) testing the key groups of the members of the academic community. Methods used in the study are: work on the documents, case studies, surveys and statistical analysis. For the analysis of regulations and documents on the website of the University of Zadar, the method of the case study is used. With regard to the topic of the dissertation we consider that the case study is appropriate method by which the role and importance of the University of Zadar in the shaping and development of good practice in the protection of copyright can be examined. The authors of works, the editors of scientific university journals and the students are examined using the method of survey. The questionnaire used is based on the questionnaire used in the Project RoMEO, and the questionnaire used in the making of the doctoral dissertation Copyright and the Real World: Making Archival Material Available on the Internet, written by Jean Elizabeth Dryden. In the preparation for making of this doctoral dissertation it is determined that research on the ethical aspects of copyright in the higher education system were not specifically conducted in the Republic of Croatia. In this dissertation special attention was paid to the former research and theoretical origins in the process of evaluating the attitudes of respondents on copyright in an academic setting. The best practices related to copyright in higher education publishing are studied with the aim to develop a model of governing the ethical issues in higher education publishing and to create a proposal for the implementation of the good practice.