Podcasts about against intellectual property

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 458. The meat of this talk is only about 15 minutes, if you skip the first couple minutes of setup and the Q&A at the end. As mentioned in Speaking at APEE IP Panel in Guatemala, today (April 6, 2025) I spoke on a panel at the APEE 49th Meeting in Guatemala. The theme of this year's meeting was “The Economic History of State and Market Institutions,” April 6-8, 2025, Guatemala City, Guatemala (program). My panel was Panel 50. [1.E.06] “Intellectual Property: Old Problems and New Developments,” Monday, April 7, 2025, 3:50 pm-5:05 pm, Breakout06. Organizer: Monica Rio Nevado de Zelaya, Universidad Francisco Marroquín; Chair: Ramón Parellada, Universidad Francisco Marroquín. My full panel: Intellectual Property: A Randian Approach Warren Orbaugh, Universidad Francisco Marroquín Non-Traditional Trademarks Cristina Umaña, Universidad Francisco Marroquín Copyright versus Innovation in the Market for Recorded Music Julio Cole,Universidad Francisco Marroquín Patent and Copyright versus Innovation, Competition, and Property Rights N. Stephan Kinsella, Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom The immediately preceding panel was also on IP, which I attended: 36. [1.D.06] [General] Intellectual Property and Information Technology Monday | 2:30 pm-3:45 pm | 06. Cafetal II Organizer: Lawrence H. White, George Mason University Chair: Osmel Brito-Bigott, Datanalitica Technological Innovation and Service Business Models: Impacts on Private Property Institutions Osmel Brito-Bigott, Datanalitica; and Laura Marie Carrasco Vasquez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra Five Arguments for Intellectual Property Adam Moore, University of Washington Ideas Are Not Property: A Cross-Country Analysis of Institutions and Innovation Lucca Tanzillo Dos Santos, Florida Atlantic University I recorded my 15 minute presentation on my phone as well as the Q&A which mostly was aimed at me. One gentleman was not happy with my remarks and my Adam Moore, a panelist on the previous panel, and I had pretty opposite views, but many others liked my perspective and expressed this to me. I thoroughly enjoyed attending the APEE meeting, if only for one full day. https://youtu.be/B4TrV44K9b4 My notes are below, as well as the Youtube transcript. Patent and Copyright versus Innovation, Competition, and Property Rights Stephan Kinsella APEE 49th Meeting “The Economic History of State and Market Institutions” April 6-8, 2025, Guatemala City, Guatemala Panel 50. [1.E.06] “Intellectual Property: Old Problems and New Developments” Monday, April 7, 2025, 3:50 pm–5:05 pm, Breakout06. Based on my forthcoming book “Copy This Book: The Case for Abolishing Intellectual Property” and also “The Problem with Intellectual Property.” (( The latter will be in Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics, 2nd ed., Christoph Lütge & Marianne Thejls Ziegler, eds. (Springer, forthcoming 2025; Robert McGee, section ed.), update of “The Case Against Intellectual Property,” in Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics(Prof. Dr. Christoph Lütge, ed.; Springer, 2013) (chapter 68, in Part 18, “Property Rights: Material and Intellectual,” Robert McGee, section ed.). )) OK, let's see how much damage I can do in 15 minutes. I've been a patent attorney for over thirty years, and have prosecuted hundreds of high tech patents over that time. Intel, GE, UPS, Applied Optoelectronics, etc. Also about thirty years ago I concluded that all forms of intellectual property, or IP, ought to be abolished. I published many articles and even books on pure IP law—patents in the oil and gas industry, a trademark treatise—but at the same time wrote articles and books critical of IP law, including Against Intellectual Property. (( See Against Intellectual Property + Supplementary Material;  https://stephankinsella.

This episode is a replay of an interview I did circa 2017 with patent attorney Stephan Kinsella.Kinsella is the author of "Against Intellectual Property," and in our time together, he argues that IP laws, particularly patents and copyrights, are incompatible with traditional property rights and hinder innovation and progress. The conversation explores the origins of these laws, their impact on musicians and other creatives, and practical advice for navigating the current system while protecting artistic integrity. The discussion also delves into Austrian economics and how it provides a framework for understanding the issues with IP laws. Kinsella foresees a future where the increasing ease of circumventing these laws will pressure the industry to adapt to more free-market principles.Episode highlights:00:24 Stefan Kinsella on Intellectual Property02:43 Understanding Property Rights06:45 Austrian Economics and Intellectual Property20:08 The History and Problems of Copyright26:59 Practical Advice for Musicians42:13 Future of Intellectual Property44:23 Conclusion and Final ThoughtsResources mentioned:Against Intellectual Property by Stephan KinsellaStephan's websiteAbout the guest:Stephan Kinsella is an attorney and libertarian writer in Houston. He was previously General Counsel for Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., a partner with Duane Morris, and adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law Houston. A registered patent attorney, he received an LL.M. (international business law) from King's College London, a JD from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University (LSU), and BSEE and MSEE degrees from LSU.He has spoken, lectured and published widely on both legal topics, including intellectual property law and international law, and also on various areas of libertarian legal theory. You've been listening to Ba Vojdaan!, with James D. Newcomb. For more information about James, and to subscribe to the podcast, visit https://jamesdnewcomb.com. There you'll find a trove of materials available for immediate download. And be sure to follow James' travels and adventures on social media. All the info can be found at https://jamesdnewcomb.com. Thank you for listening!

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 425. From Adam Haman's show Haman Nature. Released Feb. 15, 2024. From Adam's shownotes: Adam gets all intellectual and stuff with Stephan Kinsella. Part two of this interview explains why the concept of "intellectual" property is illegitimate and impedes humanity's progress. [Previous episode: KOL423 | Haman Nature Ep. 1: Getting Argumentative.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vpTQHLw_kc 00:00 – Intro 01:15 – Introducing two amazing books: Stephan's Against Intellectual Property and Against Intellectual Monopoly by Boldrin and Levine. Then Stephan touches on many aspects of the philosophical and consequential aspects of intellectual property laws. The dude goes all over the place! There's no stopping him! He knows so much! 26:38 -- Outro

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 425. From Adam Haman's show Haman Nature. Released Feb. 15, 2024. From Adam's shownotes: Adam gets all intellectual and stuff with Stephan Kinsella. Part two of this interview explains why the concept of "intellectual" property is illegitimate and impedes humanity's progress. [Previous episode: KOL423 | Haman Nature Ep. 1: Getting Argumentative.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vpTQHLw_kc Update: See the response/commentary video: https://youtu.be/k23t_8cUSmA?si=ImRcLsE7YB-dKWBj 00:00 – Intro 01:15 – Introducing two amazing books: Stephan's Against Intellectual Property and Against Intellectual Monopoly by Boldrin and Levine. Then Stephan touches on many aspects of the philosophical and consequential aspects of intellectual property laws. The dude goes all over the place! There's no stopping him! He knows so much! 26:38 -- Outro

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 420. From the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the PFS, Bodrum, Turkey (Sep. 24, 2023). The slide presentation is streamed below (ppt). Video is also below. Also podcast as Property and Freedom Podcast PFP265; see also the panel discussion later in the day (video below). Kinsella talk: https://youtu.be/QEmRgapffNQ Panel discussion: https://youtu.be/aEryCGV2oWU Slides: Notes from the slides: Stephan Kinsella C4SIF.org • StephanKinsella.com @nskinsella Property and Freedom Society 2023 Annual Meeting Bodrum, Turkey September 24, 2023 Overview ►       Spoken about intellectual property (IP) before here (in 2010 and 2015), but today I'd like to talk about how I came to my current views §   And how figuring this out required coming to a deeper understanding and more clarity about the foundation and nature of rights, and property rights, in general ►       I came to the conclusion years ago that all IP law—patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and others—are completely illegitimate and should all be abolished ►       I started publishing articles on various aspects of libertarian theory in the early 1990s—rights and punishment theory, inalienability, legislation, and so on Against IP ►       In 2001 I published “Against Intellectual Property” in the Journal of Libertarian Studies. §   Original title: “The Legitimacy of Intellectual Property” §   Hoppe suggested I change it, just like he suggested the title of today's talk ►       The article was controversial and influential, so I became well known in libertarian circles as being “the IP guy” §   Even though it's not my only area of research §   E.g., Legal Foundations of a Free Society (2023) [LFFS] IP Man How I got here ►       Libertarian since high school, initially influenced by Ayn Rand ►       Never satisfied with her case for patent and copyright ►       Initially practiced oil and gas law (1992) but decided to switch to patent law (1994) ►       Around the same time I was learning patent and IP law as a lawyer, I tried to come up with a better argument for IP ►       Finally I came to my current IP beliefs §   I was trying to justify the unjustifiable ►       Heavily influenced by the work of Hoppe (on scarcity and property), and Tom Palmer & Wendy McElroy (on IP) §   Hoppe was instinctively against IP from the beginning ►       Because I understood IP law very well, I put together what I had learned and published “Against Intellectual Property,” and many articles since How I got here ►       I kept encountering different objections to my basic argument, so developed further arguments to explain their errors ►       Summarized in “Against Intellectual Property After Twenty Years: Looking Back and Looking Forward,” in LFFS ►       Sorting out the basic case against IP and responding to various objections required rethinking and clarifying other aspects of libertarian theory, namely the nature and purpose of property rights, contract theory, and so on ►       Figuring out IP and finding ways to explain it to others improved my understanding of other areas of libertarian theory ►       I've lost track of how many people have written me or told me that my IP work opened their eyes. That's gratifying for a writer. §   See “My IP Odyssey” Absurd Arguments for IP ►       “Thank goodness the Swiss did have a Patent Office. That is where Albert Einstein worked and during his time as a patent examiner came up with his theory of relativity.” —Patent attorney Gene Quinn ►       “It is true that other means exist for creative people to profit from their effort. In the case of copyright, authors can charge fees for reading their works to paying audiences. Charles Dickens did this, but his heavy schedule of public performances in the United States, where his works were not protected by copyright, arguably contributed to his untimely death.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 420. From the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the PFS, Bodrum, Turkey (Sep. 24, 2023). The slide presentation is streamed below (ppt). Video is also below. It will also be podcast later on the Property and Freedom Podcast, as well as the panel discussion later in the day (video below). Kinsella talk: https://youtu.be/QEmRgapffNQ Panel discussion: https://youtu.be/aEryCGV2oWU Slides: Notes from the slides: Stephan Kinsella C4SIF.org • StephanKinsella.com @nskinsella Property and Freedom Society 2023 Annual Meeting Bodrum, Turkey September 24, 2023 Overview ►       Spoken about intellectual property (IP) before here (in 2010 and 2015), but today I'd like to talk about how I came to my current views §   And how figuring this out required coming to a deeper understanding and more clarity about the foundation and nature of rights, and property rights, in general ►       I came to the conclusion years ago that all IP law—patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and others—are completely illegitimate and should all be abolished ►       I started publishing articles on various aspects of libertarian theory in the early 1990s—rights and punishment theory, inalienability, legislation, and so on Against IP ►       In 2001 I published “Against Intellectual Property” in the Journal of Libertarian Studies. §   Original title: “The Legitimacy of Intellectual Property” §   Hoppe suggested I change it, just like he suggested the title of today's talk ►       The article was controversial and influential, so I became well known in libertarian circles as being “the IP guy” §   Even though it's not my only area of research §   E.g., Legal Foundations of a Free Society (2023) [LFFS] IP Man How I got here ►       Libertarian since high school, initially influenced by Ayn Rand ►       Never satisfied with her case for patent and copyright ►       Initially practiced oil and gas law (1992) but decided to switch to patent law (1994) ►       Around the same time I was learning patent and IP law as a lawyer, I tried to come up with a better argument for IP ►       Finally I came to my current IP beliefs §   I was trying to justify the unjustifiable ►       Heavily influenced by the work of Hoppe (on scarcity and property), and Tom Palmer & Wendy McElroy (on IP) §   Hoppe was instinctively against IP from the beginning ►       Because I understood IP law very well, I put together what I had learned and published “Against Intellectual Property,” and many articles since How I got here ►       I kept encountering different objections to my basic argument, so developed further arguments to explain their errors ►       Summarized in “Against Intellectual Property After Twenty Years: Looking Back and Looking Forward,” in LFFS ►       Sorting out the basic case against IP and responding to various objections required rethinking and clarifying other aspects of libertarian theory, namely the nature and purpose of property rights, contract theory, and so on ►       Figuring out IP and finding ways to explain it to others improved my understanding of other areas of libertarian theory ►       I've lost track of how many people have written me or told me that my IP work opened their eyes. That's gratifying for a writer. §   See “My IP Odyssey” Absurd Arguments for IP ►       “Thank goodness the Swiss did have a Patent Office. That is where Albert Einstein worked and during his time as a patent examiner came up with his theory of relativity.” —Patent attorney Gene Quinn ►       “It is true that other means exist for creative people to profit from their effort. In the case of copyright, authors can charge fees for reading their works to paying audiences. Charles Dickens did this, but his heavy schedule of public performances in the United States, where his works were not protected by copyright,

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 408. This is my appearance on The Soul of Enterprise, Episode 432, with hosts Ed Kless and Greg Tirico. Recorded Friday, March 24, 2023. Their shownotes are below. Ron and Ed recently welcomed patent attorney and advocate for abolishing intellectual property, Stephan Kinsella to the show. We explored what is (and is not) intellectual property and then had a conversation about why Stephan thinks these forms of property should not exist and why the world would be better if they did not. ... Use these notes to follow along with the show: Segment one: Ron first heard Stephan Kinsella on the Tom Woods show, episode 2145. Link is here: https://tomwoods.com/ep-2145-does-intellectual-property-exist/ Stephan started out of law school in a big law firm. He has been a solo practitioner for the last 8-10 years but he's “pretty much” retired now :) Stephan published the original article about 20 years ago, “Against Intellectual Property” and here is a new, more general approach to the same article: https://c4sif.org/2022/05/against-intellectual-property-after-twenty-years-looking-back-and-looking-forward/ Everyone believes in property rights BUT property rights in any non-Libertarian system is summarized as, “You own your own stuff unless the government says otherwise.” “Wealth is the subjective appraisal of things you own” —Stephan Kinsella Stephan referenced the Sweat of the Brow Doctrine earlier today on the show. Here's a good starting point for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow Segment two: While working in Big Law, Stephan “billed every tenth of an hour every 6 minutes.” This was referred to internally in the firm as a shizzle. Stephan has a great description of contracts on the show today. Contracts are all about communication by the owner as to whether they will or will not allow other people to use their resources (either temporarily or permanently). The 4 main categories of IP in the United States are: patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secrets. Stephan goes into detail about this during segment two of the show. In theory, patents are effectively monopoly control for 20 years that allows you to charge monopoly prices. There is no evidence that patents induce innovation whatsoever. Patents kill. LITERALLY. Read more from Stephan Kinsella here: https://mises.org/wire/patents-kill-compulsory-licenses-and-genzymes-life-saving-drug Segment three: “The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright” by Stephan Kinsella: https://c4sif.org/2012/10/the-overwhelming-empirical-case-against-patent-and-copyright/ “Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society” by Stephan Kinsella http://libertarianpapers.org/1-law-intellectual-property-stateless-society/ Most libertarians find some areas of libertarian theory more interesting than others. Stephan's own passion has always been rights theory and related areas, such as the theory of contracts, causation, and punishment. More here: https://mises.org/library/intellectual-property-and-libertarianism Despite the fact that there is widespread copying, the amount of art, design, music, and movies is greater than ever. Piracy/copying is obviously not a hinderance to progress. Segment four: “Attribution have nothing to do with copyright.” —Stephan Kinsella “Plagiarism is simply representing someones work as your own. It has nothing to do with copyright.” —Stephan Kinsella If you buy a fake Rolex for $20, there is no fraud involved. The buyer knows the Rolex is fake. Stephan talked through this during the last segment of our show today. A big THANK YOU to our guest today, Stephan Kinsella. His work is deep and focused on abolishing IP. Check out StephanKinsella.com for links to his work.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 408. This is my appearance on The Soul of Enterprise, Episode 432, with hosts Ed Kless and Greg Tirico. Recorded Friday, March 24, 2023. Their shownotes are below. Ron and Ed recently welcomed patent attorney and advocate for abolishing intellectual property, Stephan Kinsella to the show. We explored what is (and is not) intellectual property and then had a conversation about why Stephan thinks these forms of property should not exist and why the world would be better if they did not. ... Use these notes to follow along with the show: Segment one: Ron first heard Stephan Kinsella on the Tom Woods show, episode 2145. Link is here: https://tomwoods.com/ep-2145-does-intellectual-property-exist/ Stephan started out of law school in a big law firm. He has been a solo practitioner for the last 8-10 years but he's “pretty much” retired now :) Stephan published the original article about 20 years ago, “Against Intellectual Property” and here is a new, more general approach to the same article: https://c4sif.org/2022/05/against-intellectual-property-after-twenty-years-looking-back-and-looking-forward/ Everyone believes in property rights BUT property rights in any non-Libertarian system is summarized as, “You own your own stuff unless the government says otherwise.” “Wealth is the subjective appraisal of things you own” —Stephan Kinsella Stephan referenced the Sweat of the Brow Doctrine earlier today on the show. Here's a good starting point for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow Segment two: While working in Big Law, Stephan “billed every tenth of an hour every 6 minutes.” This was referred to internally in the firm as a shizzle. Stephan has a great description of contracts on the show today. Contracts are all about communication by the owner as to whether they will or will not allow other people to use their resources (either temporarily or permanently). The 4 main categories of IP in the United States are: patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secrets. Stephan goes into detail about this during segment two of the show. In theory, patents are effectively monopoly control for 20 years that allows you to charge monopoly prices. There is no evidence that patents induce innovation whatsoever. Patents kill. LITERALLY. Read more from Stephan Kinsella here: https://mises.org/wire/patents-kill-compulsory-licenses-and-genzymes-life-saving-drug Segment three: “The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright” by Stephan Kinsella: https://c4sif.org/2012/10/the-overwhelming-empirical-case-against-patent-and-copyright/ “Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society” by Stephan Kinsella http://libertarianpapers.org/1-law-intellectual-property-stateless-society/ Most libertarians find some areas of libertarian theory more interesting than others. Stephan's own passion has always been rights theory and related areas, such as the theory of contracts, causation, and punishment. More here: https://mises.org/library/intellectual-property-and-libertarianism Despite the fact that there is widespread copying, the amount of art, design, music, and movies is greater than ever. Piracy/copying is obviously not a hinderance to progress. Segment four: “Attribution have nothing to do with copyright.” —Stephan Kinsella “Plagiarism is simply representing someones work as your own. It has nothing to do with copyright.” —Stephan Kinsella If you buy a fake Rolex for $20, there is no fraud involved. The buyer knows the Rolex is fake. Stephan talked through this during the last segment of our show today. A big THANK YOU to our guest today, Stephan Kinsella. His work is deep and focused on abolishing IP. Check out StephanKinsella.com for links to his work.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 388. I was a guest on Cantus Firmus, with host Cody Cook (episode released July 8, 2022; recorded July 7, 2022) . We discussed IP etc. From his shownotes: Stephan Kinsella was my guest to talk about “intellectual property,” the concept that an individual's ideas belong to them and should be protected from free use by others through law. Stephan is a patent attorney and libertarian writer in Houston whose book Against Intellectual Property is the seminal writing on this subject. We discussed why intellectual property is not really property, why it places an undue burden on society, and how it inhibits the free exchange of culture and ideas. He can be found at www.stephankinsella.com, at the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, and on Twitter @NSKinsella Resources mentioned in the podcast: Stephan Kinsella's Against Intellectual Property – Amazon and Free from the Mises Institute Stephan's Soho forum debate Abolish Copyrights and Patents? RiP: A Remix Manifesto – Amazon Video and Free on Youtube Richard Stallman's book Free Software, Free Society Not discussed in the podcast, but relevant to this discussion, is my own essay Open Source Jesus: A Manifesto for a Liberated Church See also “Libertarians and the Catholic Church on Intellectual Property Laws” (2012) and KOL243 | Libertarian Christians Podcast with Norman Horn: Intellectual Property. https://youtu.be/SHOSK-i9q2I

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 373. This is an audiobook version of my Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by RetroGames HQ. An earlier version is here: KOL008 | Against Intellectual Property (audiobook). Youtube playlist; first Youtube: https://youtu.be/JCabAGM-e_s

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 373. This is an audiobook version of my Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by RetroGames HQ. An earlier version is here: KOL008 | Against Intellectual Property (audiobook). Youtube playlist; first Youtube: https://youtu.be/JCabAGM-e_s

On June 29, 2021, a UK court found that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright is the proper copyright owner of the Bitcoin Whitepaper, awarding initial damages in excess of $48,000 to Wright and demanding that Bitcoin.org remove the Whitepaper from its site. Guest Stephan Kinsella of the Open Crypto Alliance joins Tatiana today to talk about the decision and why it reveals all the most troubling problems with the government-run patent, trademark & copyright system. He discusses the background of the case and the personal financial interest that he believes is driving Wright's copyright trolling campaign. And he also gives his own thoughts on Bitcoin, blockchain technology, smart contracts and more.If you like the program, subscribe today via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen!About the Guest:(Norman) Stephan Kinsella is an attorney and libertarian writer in Houston. He was previously General Counsel for Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., a partner with Duane Morris, and adjunct law professor at South Texas College of Law. Aregistered patent attorneyand former adjunct professor atSouth Texas College of Law, he received an LL.M. (international business law) from King's College London-University of London, a JD from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at LSU, and BSEE and MSEE degrees from LSU.He has spoken, lectured andpublishedwidely on both legal topics, including intellectual property law and international law, and also on various areas of libertarian legal theory. Libertarian-related publications includeProperty, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe(co-editor, with Jrg Guido Hlsmann, Mises Institute, 2009);Against Intellectual Property(Mises Institute, 2008); andLaw in a Libertarian World: Legal Foundations of a Free Society(Papinian Press, 2021).Forthcoming worksincludeCopy This Book: The Case for Abolishing Intellectual Property(Papinian Press, 2022).Kinsella'slegal publicationsincludeInternational Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner's Guide(Oxford, 2020);Online Contract Formation(Oceana, 2004);Trademark Practice and Forms(Oxford & West/Thomson Reuters 2001'“2013);World Online Business Law(Oxford, 2003'“2011);Digest of Commercial Laws of the World(Oxford, 1998-2013);Protecting Foreign Investment Under International Law: Legal Aspects of Political Risk(Oceana Publications, 1997); andLouisiana Civil Law Dictionary(Quid Pro Books, 2011).Kinsella is aco-founder and memberof the Advisory Council for theOpen Crypto Alliance(2020'“), a member of theEditorial BoardofReason Papers(2009'“), a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of theMolinari Review(2014'“),amemberof the Advisory Board of the Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield) seriesCapitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics(2013'“),Founder and Director of theCenter for the Study of Innovative Freedom(2010'“present), and legal advisorto LBRY(2015'“). Previously, he was Founder and Executive Editor ofLibertarian Papers(2009'“2018), a Senior Fellow for the Ludwig von Mises Institute (2009'“2013), a member of the Advisory Council of theGovernment Waste and Over-regulation Councilof the Our America Initiative (2014'“2017), Book Review Editor of theJournal of Libertarian Studies(Mises Institute, 2000'“2004), a member of the Editorial Board ofThe Journal of Peace, Prosperity & Freedom(Liberty Australia, 2012'“2016), amember of the Advisory Panelof theCenter for a Stateless Society(C4SS) (2009'“2012), and served as Chair of the Computer Law Subcommittee of the Federalist Society'sIntellectual Property Practice Group.More Info:Tatiana Moroz '“https://tatianamoroz.comCrypto Media Hub '“https://cryptomediahub.comOpen Crypto Alliance '“ https://opencryptoalliance.orgStephen Kinsella '“https://stephankinsella.comFriends and Sponsors of the Show:Proof of Love '“https://proofoflovecast.comGlobal Crypto Advisors '“https://globalcryptoadvisors.ioYou have been listening to The Tatiana Show. This show may contain adult content, language, and humor and is intended for mature audiences. If that's not you, please stop listening. Nothing you hear on The Tatiana Show is intended as financial advice, legal advice, or really, anything other than entertainment. Take everything you hear with a grain of salt. Oh, and if you're hearing us on an affiliate network, the ideas and views expressed on this show are not necessarily those of the network you are listening on, or of any sponsors or any affiliate products you may hear about on the show.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 343. This is an IP and libertarianism Q&A. It was originally supposed to be a debate with an intellectual property attorney on IP but after challenging me, she bowed out. I went live at the appointed time anyway and discussed it briefly, and fielded questions from those that tuned in. We started off in Youtube live stream and because it sucks, I switched over to a Zoom call 34 minutes in so others could ask questions and participate (next time I'll use Zoom only). This started when someone on Twitter recommended my Against Intellectual Property: https://twitter.com/lpky/status/1402789745407807488 To which one @libertascoco responded with this snipe: https://twitter.com/libertascoco/status/1402820244851154945 It later turned out that she is be soi-disant IP attorney Nina Prevot, whose Youtube channel is here and who has discussed and ham-fisted, ineptly attempted to defend IP here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNq5J7YoBOo Then she challenged me to a debate, after falsely claiming I never debate people: https://twitter.com/libertascoco/status/1402993126915010567 I instantly took her up on it: https://twitter.com/NSKinsella/status/1402995267234779144 But she ended up backing out so I went online at 7pm anyway. The main reason I was willing to debate her was to let observers see how weak her arguments would be, and to confirm my repeated claim that “There are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property” (see also “Absurd Arguments for IP”). Anyhow, I went online as noted above and discussed IP and other libertarian issues with the audience. This one was not as tight as most of my material, and I thought it was a bit sloppy and all over the map, but many of the participants seemed to enjoy it, so here it is, FWIW. Youtube of the discussion: https://youtu.be/G0_3ffxzHz0 Cade Share, "A Defense of Rothbardian Ethics via a Mediation of Hoppe and Rand"

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 343. This is an IP and libertarianism Q&A. It was originally supposed to be a debate with an intellectual property attorney on IP but after challenging me, she bowed out. I went live at the appointed time anyway and discussed it briefly, and fielded questions from those that tuned in. We started off in Youtube live stream and because it sucks, I switched over to a Zoom call 34 minutes in so others could ask questions and participate (next time I'll use Zoom only). This started when someone on Twitter recommended my Against Intellectual Property: https://twitter.com/lpky/status/1402789745407807488 To which one @libertascoco responded with this snipe: https://twitter.com/libertascoco/status/1402820244851154945 It later turned out that she is be soi-disant IP attorney Nina Prevot, whose Youtube channel is here and who has discussed and ham-fisted, ineptly attempted to defend IP here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNq5J7YoBOo Then she challenged me to a debate, after falsely claiming I never debate people: https://twitter.com/libertascoco/status/1402993126915010567 I instantly took her up on it: https://twitter.com/NSKinsella/status/1402995267234779144 But she ended up backing out so I went online at 7pm anyway. The main reason I was willing to debate her was to let observers see how weak her arguments would be, and to confirm my repeated claim that “There are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property” (see also “Absurd Arguments for IP”). Anyhow, I went online as noted above and discussed IP and other libertarian issues with the audience. This one was not as tight as most of my material, and I thought it was a bit sloppy and all over the map, but many of the participants seemed to enjoy it, so here it is, FWIW. Youtube of the discussion: https://youtu.be/G0_3ffxzHz0 Cade Share, "A Defense of Rothbardian Ethics via a Mediation of Hoppe and Rand" (online at booksc dot org then /book/51341942/48c87a)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 341. This was a webinar I did for an Argentinian audience for ESEADE May 26, 2021. The topic was formally "Should We Release Patents on Vaccines" ("¿Hay que liberar las patentes sobre las vacunas?"). In this talk, I briefly provide an overview of the nature of property rights and the principled case against IP, then apply it to vaccines, and took questions from the audience. Transcript below. Youtube: https://youtu.be/EgYS8ldQ_AY Original video: https://youtu.be/-mjc7ZjYQ0o TRANSCRIPT Should We Release Patents on Vaccines? An Overview of Libertarian Property Rights and the Case Against IP Stephan Kinsella May 26, 2021 KOL341| ESEADE Lecture: Should We Release Patents on Vaccines? An Overview of Libertarian Property Rights and the Case Against IP 00:00:01 [Spanish] 00:04:21 JUAN IGNACIO IBAÑEZ: So thank you very much, Iván.  I'm just going to proceed in English like the rest of this little talk.  So thank you to you and to ESEADE for providing this space.  Thank you, Stephan, for participating, and I'm just going to start off with the introduction of our star guest speaker, which is Stephan Kinsella.  So Stephan Kinsella is one of the most prominent libertarian thinkers, specializing in the field of intellectual property. 00:04:48 Not only is he a writer and a speaker but also a practicing patent attorney and the director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom.  He was founding and executive director of Libertarian Papers, which is one of the journals that has contributed the most to libertarian thought in the past years.  He is also the author of a milestone book, Against Intellectual Property, published in 2008 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute.  And it's no overstatement to say that when it comes to debating intellectual property, his work is a must-read.  So I'm going to kick start this meeting by – I'll provide some context first and a trigger question for you, Stephan, and then just give you all the time you need to speak. 00:05:31 Maybe I'll pitch in if I need to ask a question, but I will make a sort of Q&A at the end.  So just to lay out the ground here, the title of this talk is Should Vaccine Patents Be Released?  And what we're getting at, what it boils down to, is are vaccine patents legitimate?  Are they just?  Should they exist?  You have read a lot on the subject.  You're clearly against intellectual property.  This is why we want you to explain your position because it seems, for many people, that as Iván said in Spanish, many people who uphold property rights find it intuitive to also uphold intellectual property rights. 00:06:19 So the question would be as follows.  If I create something, I come up with something that didn't exist before, and this is the fruit of my mind and a sign that I came up with, why don't I get to keep it?  After all, I own my mind.  I own my body, and don't I have a right to keep the fruit of my labor, which I generated, the product which I generated with my mind and my body?  So isn't this only just?  And aren't vaccine manufacturing or vaccine-developing companies have patent-holding rights?  Aren't they just exerting this very same right that I have just described?  Why is any of this illegitimate?  I'll just give you the floor now.  We cannot hear you right now. 00:07:24 STEPHAN KINSELLA: There we go.  Sorry.  How about now? 00:07:27 JUAN IGNACIO IBAÑEZ: Perfect. 00:07:27 STEPHAN KINSELLA: Thank you, Iván and Juan Ignacio, for the invitation and for allowing me to speak to everyone in English because my Spanish is very poor for which I have little excuse because I live in Houston, Texas, and I probably should learn it.  But thank you for the opportunity.  I think this came about because there were some Twitter comments in Spanish, which I was replying to.  And I just offered to speak about it because sometimes that is the easiest way.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 341. This was a webinar I did for an Argentinian audience for ESEADE May 26, 2021. The topic was formally "Should We Release Patents on Vaccines" ("¿Hay que liberar las patentes sobre las vacunas?"). In this talk, I briefly provide an overview of the nature of property rights and the principled case against IP, then apply it to vaccines, and took questions from the audience. Transcript below. Youtube: https://youtu.be/EgYS8ldQ_AY Original video: https://youtu.be/-mjc7ZjYQ0o TRANSCRIPT Should We Release Patents on Vaccines? An Overview of Libertarian Property Rights and the Case Against IP Stephan Kinsella May 26, 2021 KOL341| ESEADE Lecture: Should We Release Patents on Vaccines? An Overview of Libertarian Property Rights and the Case Against IP 00:00:01 [Spanish] 00:04:21 JUAN IGNACIO IBAÑEZ: So thank you very much, Iván.  I'm just going to proceed in English like the rest of this little talk.  So thank you to you and to ESEADE for providing this space.  Thank you, Stephan, for participating, and I'm just going to start off with the introduction of our star guest speaker, which is Stephan Kinsella.  So Stephan Kinsella is one of the most prominent libertarian thinkers, specializing in the field of intellectual property. 00:04:48 Not only is he a writer and a speaker but also a practicing patent attorney and the director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom.  He was founding and executive director of Libertarian Papers, which is one of the journals that has contributed the most to libertarian thought in the past years.  He is also the author of a milestone book, Against Intellectual Property, published in 2008 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute.  And it's no overstatement to say that when it comes to debating intellectual property, his work is a must-read.  So I'm going to kick start this meeting by – I'll provide some context first and a trigger question for you, Stephan, and then just give you all the time you need to speak. 00:05:31 Maybe I'll pitch in if I need to ask a question, but I will make a sort of Q&A at the end.  So just to lay out the ground here, the title of this talk is Should Vaccine Patents Be Released?  And what we're getting at, what it boils down to, is are vaccine patents legitimate?  Are they just?  Should they exist?  You have read a lot on the subject.  You're clearly against intellectual property.  This is why we want you to explain your position because it seems, for many people, that as Iván said in Spanish, many people who uphold property rights find it intuitive to also uphold intellectual property rights. 00:06:19 So the question would be as follows.  If I create something, I come up with something that didn't exist before, and this is the fruit of my mind and a sign that I came up with, why don't I get to keep it?  After all, I own my mind.  I own my body, and don't I have a right to keep the fruit of my labor, which I generated, the product which I generated with my mind and my body?  So isn't this only just?  And aren't vaccine manufacturing or vaccine-developing companies have patent-holding rights?  Aren't they just exerting this very same right that I have just described?  Why is any of this illegitimate?  I'll just give you the floor now.  We cannot hear you right now. 00:07:24 STEPHAN KINSELLA: There we go.  Sorry.  How about now? 00:07:27 JUAN IGNACIO IBAÑEZ: Perfect. 00:07:27 STEPHAN KINSELLA: Thank you, Iván and Juan Ignacio, for the invitation and for allowing me to speak to everyone in English because my Spanish is very poor for which I have little excuse because I live in Houston, Texas, and I probably should learn it.  But thank you for the opportunity.  I think this came about because there were some Twitter comments in Spanish, which I was replying to.  And I just offered to speak about it because sometimes that is the easiest way.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 333. This is my interview by Jeff Tucker (Oct. 9, 2010), which preceded my first presentation of the Mises Academy course “Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics” (Nov.-Dec. 2010). For the second presentation in 2011, see KOL172 | “Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics: Lecture 1: History and Law” (Mises Academy, 2011). Transcript below. Youtube: https://youtu.be/-XlKNStzoLs Understanding IP: An Interview with Stephan Kinsella, Mises Daily (Oct. 21, 2010) 10/21/2010Jeffrey A. TuckerStephan Kinsella Jeffrey Tucker: Stephan Kinsella, it's a pleasure to have you here today. Welcome. Stephan Kinsella: Thank you. It's good to be here. Tucker: We're going to talk about your class for the Mises Academy, on intellectual property. Kinsella: Yes, I'm looking forward to it. We've been planning it for quite a while, as you know. I think the first course will be on November 1st for six weeks and then we'll take a week off. We'll have time to go in depth into many of the issues about intellectual property and its relationship to libertarianism, economic theory, and various other areas. Tucker: Why is this an important issue? Kinsella: Well, it's becoming a more and more important issue as we've seen in our circles and as seen on the internet. Daily, we see horror stories and crazy examples of abuses of IP. People are starting to wonder if these are really abuses of IP or if there's something wrong with IP itself. In the past, free-market economists and libertarians have sort of given this issue a pass. They took it for granted. It's been in a corner all by itself. Now people are wondering, and as we start looking more closely at it, we can see that a lot of the assumptions about IP have been wrong. Tucker: It's striking you mention the history of thought here and why this issue is sort of crystallizing in our time, especially with your pioneering monograph on that subject, Against Intellectual Property. It's generally true, isn't it, that that theoretical element of economics or law or whatever catches up when the practical need for that new theory comes along. For example, the theory of money and credit was made necessary by the advent of central banking. So, 50 years ago, IP wasn't that big a deal. Kinsella: I think that's completely true. Mises said something I've always loved. (Everyone focuses on a few of his statements that other people don't see, because he has so many great aphorisms and things.) He pointed out that in his view economics is purely deductive reasoning from a priori categories. Plus, then you explicitly introduce certain assumptions to make it interesting. [See my post Mises: Keep It Interesting.] "Interesting" was something I always focused on. So, in other words, we could talk hypothetically about a barter society forever, but it won't get us that far. So let's introduce the assumption that there is money in society. It's not a priori that there is money, but there could be money and, if there is, then certain things follow from it. I think that likewise in libertarian theory certain things become interesting at a certain point. In the past, as you mentioned in your talk yesterday here at the Supporters' Summit, it was not as easy as it is now to replicate information. There was sort of a tie in previous times between a good that was produced, like a book, and the information in it. The information in the book was in the physical copy of the book, so you could easily find a way to sell that. Now, with information being so easy to copy — And, of course, as Cory Doctorow mentions in one of his articles and speeches, do we think we are going to get to a point where it is going to get harder to copy and to spread information? No, it's only going to get easier. These things have made people confront the issue of the morality an...

This is my appearance on Heterodorx Episode 10: I.P. Everywhere!, hosted by Nina Paley and Corinna Cohn (posted March 29, 2021; recorded March 25, 2021). Nina is also on the C4SIF Advisory Board. From the shownotes (see also Nina’s Facebook post): Get ready for some hardcore Libertarian nerd-talk, as Corinna goes head-to-head with Stephan Kinsella, author of Against Intellectual Property, and Libertarianism’s foremost critic of copyright and patents. Thrill to dazzling theories of labor vs. action, restrictive covenants, negative easements, burdened estates, nuisances, limitations, consent, redistribution of rights, triangular intervention, property, scarcity, value, allocation of contestable resources, conflict, trade secrets, the Patent Bargain, disclosure, distortion, abolishing the FDA…wait, what? By the end of the episode, Corinna suffers a long-overdue crisis of faith. SUCCESS!

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 328. This is my appearance on Heterodorx Episode 10: I.P. Everywhere!, hosted by Nina Paley and Corinna Cohn (posted March 29, 2021; recorded March 25, 2021). Nina is also on the C4SIF Advisory Board. From the shownotes (see also Nina's Facebook post): Get ready for some hardcore Libertarian nerd-talk, as Corinna goes head-to-head with Stephan Kinsella, author of Against Intellectual Property, and Libertarianism's foremost critic of copyright and patents.  Thrill to dazzling theories of labor vs. action, restrictive covenants, negative easements, burdened estates, nuisances, limitations, consent, redistribution of rights, triangular intervention, property, scarcity, value, allocation of contestable resources, conflict, trade secrets, the Patent Bargain, disclosure, distortion, abolishing the FDA…wait, what? By the end of the episode, Corinna suffers a long-overdue crisis of faith. SUCCESS! Related links: Stephan Kinsella, Against Intellectual Property C4SIF.org Resources http://c4sif.org/resources/ Intellectual Property Rights as Negative Servitudes Karl Fogel:The Surprising History of Copyright and The Promise of a Post-Copyright World and https://youtu.be/mhBpI13dxkI Boldrin & Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly “Conversation with an author about copyright and publishing in a free society” (Harry Potter example) “Intellectual Property” as an umbrella term and as propaganda: a reply to Richard Stallman  A Selection of Kinsella's Best Articles and Speeches on IP

Get ready for some hardcore Libertarian nerd-talk, as Corinna goes head-to-head with Stephan Kinsella, Libertarianism's foremost critic of copyright and patents and author of Against Intellectual Property. Thrill to dazzling theories of labor vs. action, restrictive covenants, negative easements, burdened estates, nuisances, limitations, consent, redistribution of rights, triangular intervention, property, scarcity, value, allocation of contestable resources, conflict, trade secrets, the Patent Bargain, disclosure, distortion, abolishing the FDA…wait, what? By the end of the episode, Corinna suffers a long-overdue crisis of faith. SUCCESS! Related links: Stephan Kinsella, Against Intellectual Property C4SIF.org Resources http://c4sif.org/resources/ Intellectual Property Rights as Negative Servitudes Karl Fogel: The Surprising History of Copyright and The Promise of a Post-Copyright World and https://youtu.be/mhBpI13dxkI Boldrin & Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly “Conversation with an author about copyright and publishing in a free society” (Harry Potter example) “Intellectual Property” as an umbrella term and as propaganda: a reply to Richard Stallman A Selection of Kinsella's Best Articles and Speeches on IP --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heterodorx/support

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 326. [Update: Transcript appended below] Back on May 24, 2020, I appeared on the Scottish Liberty Podcast, with hosts Antony Sammeroff and Tom Laird. We discussed IP and related matters, including Sammeroff's recent debate on the topic of IP with pro-IP Randian law professor Adam Mossoff. I was a bit drunk and it shows, and went off on a rant and was not as coherent as usual. The episode was entitled "Under the Influence... of Stephan Kinsella... Against Intellectual Property". We recorded a second episode on May 30, 2020, entitled "A Sober Conversation with Stephan Kinsella...," which was released as KOL289. I just realized I never posted the initial episode, so here it is, warts and all (unfortunately for fans of my drunken rants, I have quit drinking alcohol since I realized it's a destructive poison with no benefits at all, so this won't happen again). Previous episode: KOL289 | Scottish Liberty Podcast: Discussing the Mossoff-Sammeroff IP Debate, Take 2: A Sober Conversation… See various links, embeds, notes below. Youtube of the current discussion: Previous Youtube from KOL289. Antony's previous debate with Mossoff: In his remarks, Mossoff mentioned this paper by Stephen Haber as supporting the empirical case for patents (funny, I thought the Objectivists had principles): Stephen Haber, “Patents and the Wealth of Nations,” 23 Geo. Mason L.Rev. 811 (2016). I have read through it as much as I can stand and provide my critical commentary here:  “The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright”–see in particular note 3 and accompanying text. ❧ Transcript Scottish Liberty Podcast: Discussing the Mossoff-Sammeroff IP Debate, Take 1: Under the Influence of Stephan Kinsella: Against Intellectual Property (May 21, 2020) [Transcript of "Scottish Liberty Podcast: Discussing the Mossoff-Sammeroff IP Debate, Take 1: Under the Influence..." (May 21, 2020)] 00:00:03 TOM LAIRD: Welcome to episode 155 of the Scottish Liberty podcast with me, Tom Laird and, of course, the man who can, Antony Sammeroff. 00:00:13 ANTONY SAMMEROFF: That's me. 00:00:13 TOM LAIRD: And possibly the man who can, Stephen Kinsella, big hitter from the Mises Institute and patent lawyer extraordinaire, and there he goes. 00:00:25 ANTONY SAMMEROFF: Author of Against Intellectual Property, a very influential book in the libertarian movement I have to say. 00:00:33 STEPHAN KINSELLA: The most intellectual book, and get my name right.  Let's say Stephan.  Let's say it.  Okay, can you guys say with me Stephanie?  Say it with me, Stephanie. 00:00:43 TOM LAIRD: Stephanie. 00:00:44 STEPHAN KINSELLA: Okay.  Take off the E.  Stephan. 00:00:47 ANTONY SAMMEROFF: Stephan.  Did you call him Stephen Kinsella?  Did you call him – did you actually call him Stephen Kinsella in the intro? 00:00:55 TOM LAIRD: Who? 00:00:55 STEPHAN KINSELLA: Yeah, he did.  It's fine.  I'm used to it.  I'm used to it. 00:00:59 TOM LAIRD: It you want it pronounced differently, spell it differently. 00:01:03 00:01:05 STEPHAN KINSELLA: You can't blame someone's mother – so this is the thing.  You can't blame their mother, man.  You've got to – there's boundaries. 00:01:13 ANTONY SAMMEROFF: Well, I know.  I blame my mom for tons of shit. 00:01:17 STEPHAN KINSELLA: Like what? 00:01:18 ANTONY SAMMEROFF: I don't know if I should say it publicly. 00:01:25 STEPHAN KINSELLA: Well, then don't tease us.  Come on. 00:01:27 ANTONY SAMMEROFF: My ex-girlfriend blamed my mom's mom for tons of shit as well. 00:01:33 STEPHAN KINSELLA: Like what?  Give me one example, just one. 00:01:36 00:01:39 ANTONY SAMMEROFF: I don't – right at the beginning of the show?  There might be new listeners tuning from Twitter.  I tell you what.  They'll have to actually start one of those websites where they vote.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 326. Back on May 24, 2020, I appeared on the Scottish Liberty Podcast, with hosts Antony Sammeroff and Tom Laird. We discussed IP and related matters, including Sammeroff’s recent debate on the topic of IP with pro-IP Randian law professor Adam Mossoff. I was a bit drunk and it shows, and went off on a rant and was not as coherent as usual. The episode was entitled "Under the Influence... of Stephan Kinsella... Against Intellectual Property". We recorded a second episode on May 30, 2020, entitled "A Sober Conversation with Stephan Kinsella...," which was released as KOL289. I just realized I never posted the initial episode, so here it is, warts and all (unfortunately for fans of my drunken rants, I have quit drinking alcohol since I realized it's a destructive poison with no benefits at all, so this won't happen again). Previous episode: KOL289 | Scottish Liberty Podcast: Discussing the Mossoff-Sammeroff IP Debate, Take 2: A Sober Conversation… See various links, embeds, notes below. Youtube of the current discussion: Previous Youtube from KOL289. Antony’s previous debate with Mossoff: In his remarks, Mossoff mentioned this paper by Stephen Haber as supporting the empirical case for patents (funny, I thought the Objectivists had principles): Stephen Haber, “Patents and the Wealth of Nations,” 23 Geo. Mason L.Rev. 811 (2016). I have read through it as much as I can stand and provide my critical commentary here:  “The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright”–see in particular note 3 and accompanying text.

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Stephan is a patent autorney and Libertarian scholar, from whom I’ve learned a lot over the years. Although he is not an economist, he has made a very important contribution to economics by providing the best alaboration of the case against intellectual property. I highly recommend his paper “Against Intellectual Property”, which I taught in my ECO12 class. Jed Grant is CEO of KYC3.com and founder of OpenCryptoAlliance, which is attempting to help fight patent trolls in the bitcoin space. We discussed the nature of patents and the threat they pose for bitcoiners and bitcoin companies, and how they attempt to fix it. Links mentioned in the seminar: The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright Legal Scholars: Thumbs Down on Patent and Copyright Tabarrok: Patent Policy on the Back of a Napkin AskProfWolff: Patents and Copyrights: A Socialist Approach What would a blockchain patent war look like? A Patent War is Coming… Alibaba on Track to Be the Largest Blockchain Patent Holder by End of 2020: Study The Current State of Blockchain Patents The Fight against Intellectual Property Boldrin and Levine: The Case Against Patents Economic and Game Theory Against Intellectual Monopoly Lotnet – Prevent unwanted litigation while preserving the use of your patents Do Business Without Intellectual Property Defensive Patent Publishing

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 303. This was my appearance on the Free Thought Project Podcast: How IP Laws are the Antithesis of Liberty & Innovation, from Oct. 31, 2020. From their shownotes: On this week's episode of the Free Thought Project Podcast, Jason, Johnny, and Matt talk with Libertarian Figurehead, Stephen Kinsella. Stephan Kinsella is an American intellectual property lawyer, a Libertarian writer and speaker, Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom. Kinsella is a leading anti-IP libertarian theorist, author of ‘Against Intellectual Property' and has had work published in Mises Daily Article, The Journal of Libertarian Studies and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. In the podcast we cover the basics of intellectual property, the misconceptions attached to them and how IP laws are the opposite of innovation. We also talked about Covid-19 vaccines patents, the evolution of meme culture, social media censorship using Copyright and IP laws, Bitcoin's potential, how future technology will evade government regulations, 3D printing, voting, the 2020 election and if Mr Kinsella is an iPhone or Android user.

This was my appearance on the Free Thought Project Podcast: How IP Laws are the Antithesis of Liberty & Innovation, from Oct. 31, 2020. From their shownotes: On this week’s episode of the Free Thought Project Podcast, Jason, Johnny, and Matt talk with Libertarian Figurehead, Stephen Kinsella. Stephan Kinsella is an American intellectual property lawyer, a Libertarian writer and speaker, Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom. Kinsella is a leading anti-IP libertarian theorist, author of ‘Against Intellectual Property’ and has had work published in Mises Daily Article, The Journal of Libertarian Studies and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. In the podcast we cover the basics of intellectual property, the misconceptions attached to them and how IP laws are the opposite of innovation. We also talked about Covid-19 vaccines patents, the evolution of meme culture, social media censorship using Copyright and IP laws, Bitcoin’s potential, how future technology will evade government regulations, 3D printing, voting, the 2020 election and if Mr Kinsella is an iPhone or Android user.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 303. This was my appearance on the Free Thought Project Podcast: How IP Laws are the Antithesis of Liberty & Innovation, from Oct. 31, 2020. From their shownotes: On this week’s episode of the Free Thought Project Podcast, Jason, Johnny, and Matt talk with Libertarian Figurehead, Stephen Kinsella. Stephan Kinsella is an American intellectual property lawyer, a Libertarian writer and speaker, Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom. Kinsella is a leading anti-IP libertarian theorist, author of ‘Against Intellectual Property’ and has had work published in Mises Daily Article, The Journal of Libertarian Studies and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. In the podcast we cover the basics of intellectual property, the misconceptions attached to them and how IP laws are the opposite of innovation. We also talked about Covid-19 vaccines patents, the evolution of meme culture, social media censorship using Copyright and IP laws, Bitcoin’s potential, how future technology will evade government regulations, 3D printing, voting, the 2020 election and if Mr Kinsella is an iPhone or Android user.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 302. From The Human Action Podcast, Oct. 23, 2020, with Jeff Deist, discussing Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed, chapters 5-8. Transcript below. From the Mises.org shownotes: Lawyer and libertarian theorist Stephan Kinsella joins the show to discuss the middle chapters of Hoppe's Democracy, The God That Failed—in particular dealing with "desocialization" of collective property, immigration, and free trade. These are the most controversial and widely-discussed parts of the book, and Kinsella provides a fascinating analysis of property vs. wealth, the problems with public ownership and forced integration, and the concept of rule-setting for state property. And don't miss the final part of the show for his explanation of "Hoppephobia." Kinsella's article on LewRockwell.com: www.lewrockwell.com/2005/09/stephan-kinsella/a-simple-libertarian-argument/ Read Stephan Kinsella's Against Intellectual Property at Mises.org/KinsellaBook Use the code HAPOD for a discount on Democracy: The God That Failed from our bookstore: Mises.org/BuyHoppe Mises Institute original video: Jeff Deist and Stephan Kinsella on Hoppe's Democracy Transcript 00:00:03 JEFF DEIST: This is Jeff Deist, and you're listening to the Human Action podcast.  Hey, ladies and gentlemen, thanks so much for joining us, and welcome back once again to the Human Action podcast, a show we do every week where we are not afraid of books, even the 900-page books.  And that's really what the show is all about is working our way through what we consider important or seminal works in the broad, let's say, Austro-libertarian landscape, and then by doing so, hopefully encouraging you to read these books, to tackle these books and also helping you through them as you go. 00:00:38 So that's the goal, and as you know, we have recently started with Hans-Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed, and we chose this purposely because we had three weeks left until the election, so we're breaking it up into three sections.  And last week we were lucky to be joined by my friend, Jayant Bhandari, and we had a great talk about things like time preference and civilization and capital at the beginning of that book.  And in the mid part of this book where Hoppe gets into the discussion of centralization and trade and immigration, I thought there would be nobody better to invite on the show than Stephan Kinsella with whom most of you are already familiar no doubt. 00:01:19 He is a patent attorney.  He has written extensively on not just libertarian theory but I would say more narrowly libertarian legal theory, which is a bit of a different animal.  And also, of course, he's perhaps best known for his work on IP, and we will link to at least one article of his, which we shall discuss during the show.  We will link to his book, Against Intellectual Property, at the mises.org site.  If you haven't read it, and you – or maybe you don't have developed thoughts about IP in the digital age, you should read it.  You can read it easily over a weekend, and I very much encourage you to do so regardless of where you fall on that debate.  I – my personal feelings are in line with Kinsella on that topic, by the way.  So all that said, Stephan, thanks for joining. 00:02:08 STEPHAN KINSELLA: Glad to be here, Jeff. 00:02:09 JEFF DEIST: Well, I want to ask you before we get into the book, it came out in 2001.  Unfortunately, the Mises Institute doesn't own this book, wish we did.  So where were you?  What were you doing in 2001?  Where were you living?  How did you become aware of Hoppe or this book? 00:02:25 STEPHAN KINSELLA: Oh 2001.  That's a good question.  I remember that because that was the year of 9/11.  I was back in Houston.  I'm from Louisiana.  I had moved to Houston as a lawyer in 1992 and moved to Philadelphia in '94 and been there for a few years and moved back to Houston.  And I remember in 2001,

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 302. From The Human Action Podcast, Oct. 23, 2020, with Jeff Deist, discussing Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed, chapters 5-8. From the Mises.org shownotes: Lawyer and libertarian theorist Stephan Kinsella joins the show to discuss the middle chapters of Hoppe's Democracy, The God That Failed—in particular dealing with "desocialization" of collective property, immigration, and free trade. These are the most controversial and widely-discussed parts of the book, and Kinsella provides a fascinating analysis of property vs. wealth, the problems with public ownership and forced integration, and the concept of rule-setting for state property. And don't miss the final part of the show for his explanation of "Hoppephobia." Kinsella's article on LewRockwell.com: www.lewrockwell.com/2005/09/stephan-kinsella/a-simple-libertarian-argument/ Read Stephan Kinsella's Against Intellectual Property at Mises.org/KinsellaBook Use the code HAPOD for a discount on Democracy: The God That Failed from our bookstore: Mises.org/BuyHoppe

Lawyer and libertarian theorist Stephan Kinsella joins the show to discuss the middle chapters of Hoppe's Democracy, The God That Failed—in particular dealing with "desocialization" of collective property, immigration, and free trade. These are the most controversial and widely-discussed parts of the book, and Kinsella provides a fascinating analysis of property vs. wealth, the problems with public ownership and forced integration, and the concept of rule-setting for state property. And don't miss the final part of the show for his explanation of "Hoppephobia."    Kinsella's article on LewRockwell.com: "A Simple Libertarian Argument Against Unrestricted Immigration and Open Borders" Read Stephan Kinsella's Against Intellectual Property at Mises.org/KinsellaBook Use the code HAPOD for a discount on Democracy: The God That Failed from our bookstore: Mises.org/BuyHoppe]]>

Lawyer and libertarian theorist Stephan Kinsella joins the show to discuss the middle chapters of Hoppe's Democracy, The God That Failed—in particular dealing with "desocialization" of collective property, immigration, and free trade. These are the most controversial and widely-discussed parts of the book, and Kinsella provides a fascinating analysis of property vs. wealth, the problems with public ownership and forced integration, and the concept of rule-setting for state property. And don't miss the final part of the show for his explanation of "Hoppephobia." Kinsella's article on LewRockwell.com: "A Simple Libertarian Argument Against Unrestricted Immigration and Open Borders" Read Stephan Kinsella's Against Intellectual Property at Mises.org/KinsellaBook Use the code HAPOD for a discount on Democracy: The God That Failed from our bookstore: Mises.org/BuyHoppe

Lawyer and libertarian theorist Stephan Kinsella joins the show to discuss the middle chapters of Hoppe's Democracy, The God That Failed—in particular dealing with "desocialization" of collective property, immigration, and free trade. These are the most controversial and widely-discussed parts of the book, and Kinsella provides a fascinating analysis of property vs. wealth, the problems with public ownership and forced integration, and the concept of rule-setting for state property. And don't miss the final part of the show for his explanation of "Hoppephobia." Kinsella's article on LewRockwell.com: "A Simple Libertarian Argument Against Unrestricted Immigration and Open Borders" Read Stephan Kinsella's Against Intellectual Property at Mises.org/KinsellaBook Use the code HAPOD for a discount on Democracy: The God That Failed from our bookstore: Mises.org/BuyHoppe

Lawyer and libertarian theorist Stephan Kinsella joins the show to discuss the middle chapters of Hoppe's Democracy, The God That Failed—in particular dealing with "desocialization" of collective property, immigration, and free trade. These are the most controversial and widely-discussed parts of the book, and Kinsella provides a fascinating analysis of property vs. wealth, the problems with public ownership and forced integration, and the concept of rule-setting for state property. And don't miss the final part of the show for his explanation of "Hoppephobia." Kinsella's article on LewRockwell.com: "A Simple Libertarian Argument Against Unrestricted Immigration and Open Borders" Read Stephan Kinsella's Against Intellectual Property at Mises.org/KinsellaBook Use the code HAPOD for a discount on Democracy: The God That Failed from our bookstore: Mises.org/BuyHoppe

Sometimes we like to engage in gratuitous nerding out, so in this episode, we discuss whether or not the control of UTXOs in the Bitcoin network constitutes ownership. Items discussed Against Intellectual Property by Stephan Kinsella Chat #46 - Stephan Kinsella on Intellectual Property in the age of Bitcoin - Bitcoin Audible Sponsor Liberty Mugs Keep in touch with us everywhere you are Join our Telegram group Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter: @RolloMcFloogle @Slappy_Jones_2 Check us out on Patreon Learn everything you need to know about Bitcoin in just 10 hours 10HoursofBitcoin.com

"I was just amazed when Bitcoin emerged, and I'm like 'I think someone finally cracked this and figured it out,' it's ingenious right?" - @NKinsella Stephan Kinsella joins us today for a fascinating discussion on the morality and concept of property in the digital age. Is it possible to own Bitcoin? Do we legally own it, or are we simply the ones in control via the rules of the Bitcoin system? Follow Stephan Kinsella for more excellent Austrian knowledge and brilliant takes on social media by his twitter profile (https://twitter.com/NSKinsella) and/or check out some of his other amazing work and appearances at Stephankinsella.com Check out the extraordinary book that inspired this discussion available for free by the Mises Institute! Against Intellectual Property: https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

"I was just amazed when Bitcoin emerged, and I'm like 'I think someone finally cracked this and figured it out,' it's ingenious right?" - @NKinsella Stephan Kinsella joins us today for a fascinating discussion on the morality and concept of property in the digital age. Is it possible to own Bitcoin? Do we legally own it, or are we simply the ones in control via the rules of the Bitcoin system? Follow Stephan Kinsella for more excellent Austrian knowledge and brilliant takes on social media by his twitter profile (https://twitter.com/NSKinsella) and/or check out some of his other amazing work and appearances at Stephankinsella.com Check out the extraordinary book that inspired this discussion available for free by the Mises Institute! Against Intellectual Property: https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/message

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 295. This is my appearance on Jimmy Song's podcast Bitcoin Fixes This (ep. 7). Bitcoin Fixes This #7: Intellectual Property Stephan Kinsella is a patent attorney, Austrian economist and author of Against Intellectual Property. We talk about IP law's monarchist origins and how it's a tool for monopoly. Stephan also tells us about how information is not the same thing as physical property and how IP and Bitcoin both suffer from labor theories of value.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 295. This is my appearance on Jimmy Song's podcast Bitcoin Fixes This (ep. 7). Bitcoin Fixes This #7: Intellectual Property Stephan Kinsella is a patent attorney, Austrian economist and author of Against Intellectual Property. We talk about IP law’s monarchist origins and how it’s a tool for monopoly. Stephan also tells us about how information is not the same thing as physical property and how IP and Bitcoin both suffer from labor theories of value.

Bitcoin Fixes This #7: Intellectual Property Stephan Kinsella is a patent attorney, Austrian economist and author of Against Intellectual Property. We talk about IP law’s monarchist origins and how it’s a tool for monopoly. Stephan also tells us about how information is not the same thing as physical property and how IP and Bitcoin both suffer from labor theories of value.

Stephan Kinsella is a patent attorney, Austrian economist and author of Against Intellectual Property. We talk about IP law’s monarchist origins and how it’s a tool for monopoly. Stephan also tells us about how information is not the same thing as physical property and how IP and Bitcoin both suffer from labor theories of value.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 289. [Update: Transcript appended below] This is my appearance on the Scottish Liberty Podcast from May 30, 2020, with hosts Antony Sammeroff and Tom Laird. We discussed IP and related matters, including Sammeroff's recent debate on the topic of IP with pro-IP Randian law professor Adam Mossoff. See various links, embeds, notes below. This was the second take, and entitled "A Sober Conversation with Stephan Kinsella...," because we had previously recorded a discussion on May 24, 2020, in which I was a bit drunk and went off on a rant. The episode was entitled "Under the Influence... of Stephan Kinsella... Against Intellectual Property". We then recorded this current episode on May 30, 2020. [Update: I recently (March 2021) realized I never posted the initial episode, so have just posted it as KOL326 | Scottish Liberty Podcast: Discussing the Mossoff-Sammeroff IP Debate, Take 1: Under the Influence…] See various links, embeds, notes below. Youtube of the current discussion: Youtube of the initial discussion, now posted at KOL326: Antony's previous debate with Mossoff: In his remarks, Mossoff mentioned this paper by Stephen Haber as supporting the empirical case for patents (funny, I thought the Objectivists had principles): Stephen Haber, "Patents and the Wealth of Nations," 23 Geo. Mason L.Rev. 811 (2016). I have read through it as much as I can stand and provide my critical commentary here:  “The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright”--see in particular note 3 and accompanying text. ❧ Transcript Scottish Liberty Podcast: Discussing the Mossoff-Sammeroff IP Debate, Take 2: A Sober Conversation With Stephan Kinsella (May 30, 2020) [Transcript of "Scottish Liberty Podcast: Discussing the Mossoff-Sammeroff IP Debate, Take 2: A Sober Conversation (May 30, 2020)] 00:00:01 ANTONY SAMMEROFF: Greetings people of planet Earth.  It must be episode 156 of the Scottish Liberty Podcast with me, Antony Sammeroff, and that ranty, ranty man, Tom Laird, back with us again. 00:00:15 TOM LAIRD: Thank you. 00:00:15 ANTONY SAMMEROFF: Sorry. 00:00:16 TOM LAIRD: I'm free. 00:00:17 ANTONY SAMMEROFF: He's free.  The excellent, the extraordinary Stephan Kinsella.  Don't mispronounce it Stephen.  Don't be that guy.  Don't be that guy.  Only an idiot would do that.  Thank you for joining us. 00:00:33 STEPHAN KINSELLA: Glad to be here with all four of us.  You said there was you, Antony Sammeroff, Tom, and me, so that's four. 00:00:39 ANTONY SAMMEROFF: Excellent. 00:00:41 STEPHAN KINSELLA: I only see three people though. 00:00:43 ANTONY SAMMEROFF: So we're going to talk about – you only – for those tuning in on Facebook and YouTube see that I kind of look weird because I'm trying this digital background.  But Zoom thinks that my face is part of the background, so I look… 00:00:57 STEPHAN KINSELLA: I think you're triggering a lot of light-epilepsy people right now. 00:01:00 TOM LAIRD: I think it's because your head looks like a planetoid. 00:01:02 00:01:04 ANTONY SAMMEROFF: I am the moon, the orbits, the Earth. 00:01:07 STEPHAN KINSELLA: He looks like a Marvel character like Ego the Living Planet or something. 00:01:12 ANTONY SAMMEROFF: So I guess we're going to talk about IP and stuff like that. 00:01:17 TOM LAIRD: Whoa. 00:01:17 ANTONY SAMMEROFF: That's crazy.  As some people know, probably heard a couple of weeks ago, I was debating this Adam Mossoff guy.  And there may have been some conversation that we had once before, but we don't talk about that anymore because… 00:01:32 TOM LAIRD: Did he laugh at any point during the… 00:01:34 00:01:37 ANTONY SAMMEROFF: But let's just say that there were some things that could have been said in that discussion that we never speak of – we don't talk about anymore that weren't discussed.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 283. This was my Webinar presentation at the Freedom Hub Working Group, Has Intellectual Property Become Corporate Welfare? (Wed., Feb. 19, 2020), organized by Jeff Kanter and Charles Frohman. From their shownotes: "Despite two decades of IP law practice for Big Oil and other clients, Stephan Kinsella earlier had been exposed to the great Murry Rothbard (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rothbard) and wasn't convinced the ancient property rights philosophy had room for intangible ideas - that maybe, he was in the middle of a gross example of corporate welfare that was killing entrepreneurship. Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, former adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law, and author of “Against Intellectual Property” and “Law in a Libertarian World: Legal Foundations of a Free Society”, Stephan will present “Property Rights versus Intellectual Property”, and apply that lesson to how crony corporations abuse IP to squash competition and suppress innovation - with Big Pharma and the China “IP theft” as examples." The youtube and slides are streamed below. For related material, see my recent episode KOL282 | No, China Is Not “Stealing Our I.P.”

This was my Webinar presentation at the Freedom Hub Working Group, Has Intellectual Property Become Corporate Welfare? (Wed., Feb. 19, 2020), organized by Jeff Kanter and Charles Frohman. From their shownotes: “Despite two decades of IP law practice for Big Oil and other clients, Stephan Kinsella earlier had been exposed to the great Murry Rothbard (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rothbard) and wasn’t convinced the ancient property rights philosophy had room for intangible ideas – that maybe, he was in the middle of a gross example of corporate welfare that was killing entrepreneurship. Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, former adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law, and author of “Against Intellectual Property” and “Law in a Libertarian World: Legal Foundations of a Free Society”, Stephan will present “Property Rights versus Intellectual Property”, and apply that lesson to how crony corporations abuse IP to squash competition and suppress innovation – with Big Pharma and the China “IP theft” as examples.”

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 283. This was my Webinar presentation at the Freedom Hub Working Group, Has Intellectual Property Become Corporate Welfare? (Wed., Feb. 19, 2020), organized by Jeff Kanter and Charles Frohman. From their shownotes: "Despite two decades of IP law practice for Big Oil and other clients, Stephan Kinsella earlier had been exposed to the great Murry Rothbard (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rothbard) and wasn’t convinced the ancient property rights philosophy had room for intangible ideas - that maybe, he was in the middle of a gross example of corporate welfare that was killing entrepreneurship. Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, former adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law, and author of “Against Intellectual Property” and “Law in a Libertarian World: Legal Foundations of a Free Society”, Stephan will present “Property Rights versus Intellectual Property”, and apply that lesson to how crony corporations abuse IP to squash competition and suppress innovation - with Big Pharma and the China “IP theft” as examples." The youtube and slides are streamed below. For related material, see my recent episode KOL282 | No, China Is Not “Stealing Our I.P.”

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 281. This is my appearance on the Death to Tyrants Podcast, Episode 90: Against Intellectual Property, with Stephan Kinsella (Facebook post), released Feb. 3, 2020, with host Buck Johnson. (I was previously a guest back in 2018--see KOL252 | Death to Tyrants Podcast: Human Rights, Property Rights and Copyright.) From the Shownotes: This week, I feature my interview with Stephan Kinsella, the foremost expert on the topic of "intellectual property". Can you own an idea? How about a word? A pattern of words? How about a color? Stephan Kinsella is here to explain why intellectual property is illegitimate. This episode will cause you to think seriously about the topic. Give it a listen. I think you'll enjoy it!

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 281. This is my appearance on the Death to Tyrants Podcast, Episode 90: Against Intellectual Property, with Stephan Kinsella (Facebook post), released Feb. 3, 2020, with host Buck Johnson. (I was previously a guest back in 2018--see KOL252 | Death to Tyrants Podcast: Human Rights, Property Rights and Copyright.) From the Shownotes: This week, I feature my interview with Stephan Kinsella, the foremost expert on the topic of "intellectual property". Can you own an idea? How about a word? A pattern of words? How about a color? Stephan Kinsella is here to explain why intellectual property is illegitimate. This episode will cause you to think seriously about the topic. Give it a listen. I think you'll enjoy it!

This is my appearance on the Death to Tyrants Podcast, Episode 90: Against Intellectual Property, with Stephan Kinsella (Facebook post), released Feb. 3, 2020, with host Buck Johnson. (I was previously a guest back in 2018–see KOL252 | Death to Tyrants Podcast: Human Rights, Property Rights and Copyright.) From the Shownotes: This week, I feature my interview with Stephan Kinsella, the foremost expert on the topic of “intellectual property”. Can you own an idea? How about a word? A pattern of words? How about a color? Stephan Kinsella is here to explain why intellectual property is illegitimate. This episode will cause you to think seriously about the topic. Give it a listen. I think you’ll enjoy it!

This is my appearance on the Fallible Animals podcast, Episode 12: Property Rights, Argumentation Ethics, and Praxeology with Stephan Kinsella (Apple podcasts; Spotify version; Youtube version embedded below), with host Logan Chipkin. From Logan’s shownotes: “Joining me today is patent attorney and libertarian theorist Stephan Kinsella. Mr. Kinsella is the author of the book, Against Intellectual Property, and is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom. He is also the founder and editor of Libertarians Papers, and he’s a member of the Editorial Board of Reason Papers. We cover a wide range of specific topics, from property rights, argumentation ethics, whether or not praxeology is falsifiable, common arguments against the existence or morality of anarcho-capitalism, and potential connections between praxeology, free will, and constructor theory. Stephan Kinsella’s website – http://www.stephankinsella.com Stephan Kinsella’s Twitter – https://twitter.com/NSKinsella Mises: Keep It Interesting – https://mises.org/wire/mises-keep-it-interesting A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, Inalienability – https://mises.org/library/libertarian-theory-contract-title-transfer-binding-promises-inalienability-0 How We Come to Own Ourselves – https://mises.org/library/how-we-come-own-ourselves Against Intellectual Property – https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0 Twitter – https://twitter.com/ChipkinLogan Website – www.loganchipkin.com Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/Fallibleanimals “

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 280. This is my appearance on the Fallible Animals podcast, Episode 12: Property Rights, Argumentation Ethics, and Praxeology with Stephan Kinsella (Apple podcasts; Spotify version; Youtube version embedded below), with host Logan Chipkin.  From Logan's shownotes: "Joining me today is patent attorney and libertarian theorist Stephan Kinsella. Mr. Kinsella is the author of the book, Against Intellectual Property, and is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom. He is also the founder and editor of Libertarians Papers, and he's a member of the Editorial Board of Reason Papers. We cover a wide range of specific topics, from property rights, argumentation ethics, whether or not praxeology is falsifiable, common arguments against the existence or morality of anarcho-capitalism, and potential connections between praxeology, free will, and constructor theory. Stephan Kinsella's website - https://stephankinsella.com Stephan Kinsella's Twitter - https://twitter.com/NSKinsella Mises: Keep It Interesting - https://mises.org/wire/mises-keep-it-interesting A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, Inalienability - https://mises.org/library/libertarian-theory-contract-title-transfer-binding-promises-inalienability-0 How We Come to Own Ourselves - https://mises.org/library/how-we-come-own-ourselves Against Intellectual Property - https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/ChipkinLogan Website - www.loganchipkin.com Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/Fallibleanimals " See also Barry Smith, "In Defense of Extreme (Fallibilistic) Apriorism" (1996).

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 280. This is my appearance on the Fallible Animals podcast, Episode 12: Property Rights, Argumentation Ethics, and Praxeology with Stephan Kinsella (Apple podcasts; Spotify version; Youtube version embedded below), with host Logan Chipkin.  From Logan's shownotes: "Joining me today is patent attorney and libertarian theorist Stephan Kinsella. Mr. Kinsella is the author of the book, Against Intellectual Property, and is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom. He is also the founder and editor of Libertarians Papers, and he’s a member of the Editorial Board of Reason Papers. We cover a wide range of specific topics, from property rights, argumentation ethics, whether or not praxeology is falsifiable, common arguments against the existence or morality of anarcho-capitalism, and potential connections between praxeology, free will, and constructor theory. Stephan Kinsella's website - http://www.stephankinsella.com Stephan Kinsella's Twitter - https://twitter.com/NSKinsella Mises: Keep It Interesting - https://mises.org/wire/mises-keep-it-interesting A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, Inalienability - https://mises.org/library/libertarian-theory-contract-title-transfer-binding-promises-inalienability-0 How We Come to Own Ourselves - https://mises.org/library/how-we-come-own-ourselves Against Intellectual Property - https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/ChipkinLogan Website - www.loganchipkin.com Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/Fallibleanimals " See also Barry Smith, "In Defense of Extreme (Fallibilistic) Apriorism" (1996).

Joining me today is patent attorney and libertarian theorist Stephan Kinsella. Mr. Kinsella is the author of the book, Against Intellectual Property, and is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom. He is also the founder and editor of Libertarians Papers, and he’s a member of the Editorial Board of Reason Papers. We cover a wide range of specific topics, from property rights, argumentation ethics, whether or not praxeology is falsifiable, common arguments against the existence or morality of anarcho-capitalism, and potential connections between praxeology, free will, and constructor theory. Stephan Kinsella's website - http://www.stephankinsella.com Stephan Kinsella's Twitter - https://twitter.com/NSKinsella Mises: Keep It Interesting - https://mises.org/wire/mises-keep-it-interesting A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, Inalienability - https://mises.org/library/libertarian-theory-contract-title-transfer-binding-promises-inalienability-0 How We Come to Own Ourselves - https://mises.org/library/how-we-come-own-ourselves Against Intellectual Property - https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0 Twitter - https://twitter.com/ChipkinLogan Website - www.loganchipkin.com Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/Fallibleanimals --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/logan-chipkin/support

(https://www.bobmurphyshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/kinsella.jpg) Bob talks with Stephan Kinsella about the basis of libertarian law, and how we could have justice without a coercive State. They then discuss Stephan’s pathbreaking work making the case that property must be in tangible things, rendering “intellectual property” an incoherent and dangerous concept. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: Stephan’s website (http://www.stephankinsella.com/) . Stephan’s classic monograph, “ Against Intellectual Property. (https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0) “ Stephan’s article, “ What It Means to Be an Anarcho-Capitalist. (https://www.lewrockwell.com/2004/01/stephan-kinsella/what-it-means-to-be-an-anarcho-capitalist/) “ Stephan’s article, “ How I Became a Libertarian. (https://www.lewrockwell.com/2002/12/stephan-kinsella/up-from-objectivism/) “ Bob’s pamphlet journal article (http://libertarianpapers.org/murphy-libertarian-law-military-defense/) on private law and military defense. Bob (with Gene Callahan) Stephan defends Hoppe (http://www.stephankinsella.com/publications/defending-argumentation-ethics/) . How you can contribute (http://bobmurphyshow.com/contribute) to the Bob Murphy Show. The audio production for this episode was provided by Podsworth Media (https://www.podsworth.com/) .

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 254. From TomWoods Ep. 1304 How I Got into Harvard. I interviewed Tom about this and related questions since my 15 year old son is nearing college age and I was curious. From Tom's shownotes: Stephan Kinsella, the libertarian theorist and author of Against Intellectual Property, asked me the other day about my college admission experience. We are each the parent of a tenth grader, so the topic of college comes up in our households. I didn't think I had much interesting to say about it, but we decided he would in effect host this episode and ask me questions. The resulting conversation turned out to be great! Read the original article at TomWoods.com. http://tomwoods.com/ep-1304-how-i-got-into-harvard/

Stephan Kinsella, the libertarian theorist and author of "Against Intellectual Property", asked me the other day about my college admission experience. He and I each have a child in the tenth grade, so the topic of college comes up in our households. I didn't think I had much interesting to say about it, but we decided he would in effect host this episode and ask me questions. The resulting conversation turned out to be great!

Clifton and David are honored to have Stephan Kinsella on the show to discuss argumentation ethics and talk about his concept, "estoppel."  We will get Stephan's full take on argumentation ethics and how it relates to libertarian arguments and principles such as the NAP. Stephan is also the author of the libertarian book, "Against Intellectual Property." Stephan is a fellow at the Mises Institute and a practicing attorney.  Join the Punching Left! team for what we believe should be a very educational show!  

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 235. This is a short video produced by the Federalist Society (Feb. 6, 2018), featuring me and IP law professor Kristen Osenga (I had met Osenga previously, as a co-panelist at an IP panel at NYU School of Law in 2011). I was pleasantly surprised that the Federalist Society was willing to give the anti-IP side a voice—more on this below. To produce this video, Osenga and I each spoke separately, before a green screen, in studios in our own cities, for about 30 minutes. The editing that boiled this down to about 5 minutes total was superbly done. see also James Stern: Is Intellectual Property Actually Property? [Federalist Society No. 86 LECTURE] Transcript below. From the Federalist Society's shownotes on their Facebook post: Why does the government protect patents, copyrights, and trademarks? Should it? Kristen Osenga and Stephan Kinsella explore the concept of intellectual property and debate its effect on society as a whole. Kristen Osenga, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, and Stephan Kinsella, author of Against Intellectual Property, explore the concept of intellectual property and debate its effect on society as a whole. Differing Views: Libertarianism.org: Libertarian Views of Intellectual Property A 21st Century Copyright Office: The Conservative Case for Reform Mises Institute: The Case Against IP Law and Liberty: Why Intellectual Property Rights? A Lockean Justification The Constitutional Foundations of Intellectual Property Harvard Law: Theories of Intellectual Property I was pleasantly surprised that the Federalist Society was willing to give the anti-IP side a voice, given that many libertarian-related groups either outright favor IP or refuse to condemn it or to allow abolitionist voices. Since the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s, the effects of patent and especially copyright law have become magnified and more noticeable. Thus more libertarians began to direct their attention to this issue. Gradually, scholarship emerged and the consensus began to shift over the last couple decades from an inchoate Randian pro-IP attitude, and/or apathy, to a interest in and opposition to IP law. It is safe to say that most thinking libertarians, most Austrians, anarchists, and left-libertarians, are now predominately opposed to IP.  (See “The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism,” “The Four Historical Phases of IP Abolitionism”, “The Origins of Libertarian IP Abolitionism”.) Accordingly, many libertarian groups are now explicitly anti-IP or at least are willing to host speakers and writers with this view, such as: the Mises Institute, and various Mises Institutes around the world (Sweden, Brasil, UK, etc.); the  Property and Freedom Society; and others, like the IEA (see Stephen Davies' Intellectual Property Rights: Yay or Nay); the Adam Smith Forum-Russia, which had me present a sweeping case for IP abolition; and the Adam Smith Institute in London, which also has featured strong voices in opposition to IP (Adam Smith Institute: Do not feed the patent troll; Intellectual property: an unnecessary evil). FEE has featured my work and that of other IP abolitionists, like Sheldon Richman. Even the Mercatus Center has promoted strong IP reform, although not outright abolition (see, e.g., Tom Bell, What is Intellectual Privilege?). And, I've been invited to speak against IP in a number of fora, podcasts, and radio shows—PorcFest, Libertopia, Students for Liberty, FreeTalkLive, and so on. Even John Stossel's Fox show featured me and David Koepsell arguing the abolitionist side. So. This is good progress, and parallels the increasing interest in IP by libertarians and their increasing opposition to this type of law. But not all libertarian groups, sadly, recognize IP for the unjust state institution that it is. The Libertarian Party, for example, shamefully takes no stance on IP in its platform.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 235. This is a short video produced by the Federalist Society, featuring me and IP law professor Kristen Osenga (I had met Osenga previously, as a co-panelist at an IP panel at NYU School of Law in 2011). I was pleasantly surprised that the Federalist Society was willing to give the anti-IP side a voice—more on this below. To produce this video, Osenga and I each spoke separately, before a green screen, in studios in our own cities, for about 30 minutes. The editing that boiled this down to about 5 minutes total was superbly done. From the Federalist Society's shownotes on their Facebook post: Why does the government protect patents, copyrights, and trademarks? Should it? Kristen Osenga and Stephan Kinsella explore the concept of intellectual property and debate its effect on society as a whole. Kristen Osenga, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, and Stephan Kinsella, author of Against Intellectual Property, explore the concept of intellectual property and debate its effect on society as a whole. Differing Views: Libertarianism.org: Libertarian Views of Intellectual Property A 21st Century Copyright Office: The Conservative Case for Reform Mises Institute: The Case Against IP Law and Liberty: Why Intellectual Property Rights? A Lockean Justification The Constitutional Foundations of Intellectual Property Harvard Law: Theories of Intellectual Property I was pleasantly surprised that the Federalist Society was willing to give the anti-IP side a voice, given that many libertarian-related groups either outright favor IP or refuse to condemn it or to allow abolitionist voices. Since the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s, the effects of patent and especially copyright law have become magnified and more noticeable. Thus more libertarians began to direct their attention to this issue. Gradually, scholarship emerged and the consensus began to shift over the last couple decades from an inchoate Randian pro-IP attitude, and/or apathy, to a interest in and opposition to IP law. It is safe to say that most thinking libertarians, most Austrians, anarchists, and left-libertarians, are now predominately opposed to IP.  (See “The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism,” “The Four Historical Phases of IP Abolitionism”, “The Origins of Libertarian IP Abolitionism”.) Accordingly, many libertarian groups are now explicitly anti-IP or at least are willing to host speakers and writers with this view, such as: the Mises Institute, and various Mises Institutes around the world (Sweden, Brasil, UK, etc.); the  Property and Freedom Society; and others, like the IEA (see Stephen Davies' Intellectual Property Rights: Yay or Nay); the Adam Smith Forum-Russia, which had me present a sweeping case for IP abolition; and the Adam Smith Institute in London, which also has featured strong voices in opposition to IP (Adam Smith Institute: Do not feed the patent troll; Intellectual property: an unnecessary evil). FEE has featured my work and that of other IP abolitionists, like Sheldon Richman. Even the Mercatus Center has promoted strong IP reform, although not outright abolition (see, e.g., Tom Bell, What is Intellectual Privilege?). And, I've been invited to speak against IP in a number of fora, podcasts, and radio shows—PorcFest, Libertopia, Students for Liberty, FreeTalkLive, and so on. Even John Stossel's Fox show featured me and David Koepsell arguing the abolitionist side. So. This is good progress, and parallels the increasing interest in IP by libertarians and their increasing opposition to this type of law. But not all libertarian groups, sadly, recognize IP for the unjust state institution that it is. The Libertarian Party, for example, shamefully takes no stance on IP in its platform. This would be like failing to oppose chattel slavery, conscription, or the drug war in a society where these things were going on.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 217. This is Episode 14 of the MusicPreneur podcast, "Intellectual Property is the Bastard Child of the Gatekeepers," run by host James Newcomb. I appeared on his previous podcast, Outside the Music Box, a while back. This one is a fresh, stand-alone discussion where I lay out the case against IP fairly methodically. MusicPreneur shownotes below. See also my A Selection of my Best Articles and Speeches on IP. 01/31/2017 | 0 Listen to this episode Play / pause 1x Intellectual Property is the Bastard Child of the Gatekeepers (Ep. 14) 0:00 0:00 Intellectual Property is the Bastard Child of the Gatekeepers (Ep. 14) Download "Doing Business Without Intellectual Property!" Download stephankinsella.com You're probably going to disagree with what is said in this episode. In fact, it could very well make you angry. But, as Bob Dylan said, "The times, they are a changin'." It's an issue that I've wrestled with over the years and have finally come to the conclusion that Intellectual Property (IP) is detrimental to progress and innovation. While on the surface it appears to protect the rights of content creators to profit from their content, the reality is that the only people who really profit are the "gate keepers" and those who hang out near "the gates". I've tried to take a "back door" approach with this issue before, thinking that people would somehow be persuaded to see my point of view without actually telling them my point of view. Not surprisingly, the results of that approach weren't encouraging. I've decided to just come right out and say it. Intellectual Property is Horrible The fact of the matter is that just about every way of thinking that was considered set in stone a short time ago is suddenly up for debate once again. What are the origins of IP? How did it become de facto conventional knowledge in modern society? Is it really the only legalized monopoly in existence? Enter my guest for this episode, Stephan Kinsella. He's been a patent attorney in Houston, TX for nearly 30 years. He's the author of Against Intellectual Property as well as a pamphlet titled, Doing Business Without Intellectual Property.  In this discussion, we discuss why intellectual property (IP) is a hindrance to progress and innovation for musicians, and how MusicPreneur's can navigate the oftentimes confusing waters of IP. IP is not compatible with traditional view of property. World of scarcity - one person can use at a time Austrian Economics Mises: Human Action Act: Human has conception of where he is, what future is coming, anticipates what future is coming. Makes necessary changes... Informed by your knowledge of what's possible; tools at your disposal. Involves employment of scarce resources Guided by knowledge Impossible to have monopoly in an idea. IP Law enforces law with use of force. Another form of redistribution of wealth. 2 Rules in Acquiring Property First person to start using it - Homesteading; original appropriation Purchase materials in a legitimate exchange How IP came about Printing press was a threat to established order Statute of Monopolies Statute of Anne created copyright Practical Application - How can musicians maximize exposure while protecting artistic integrity? Don't have to have a copyright. Don't have to register/enforce Creative Commons Don't sign rights away to a studio SK self-publishing next book Liberty and freedom available now that hasn't existed Profit is an unnatural thing - breeds competitors. Entrepreneurs need to be aware of how business models can be copied. Some are not viable. What does the next 10 years hold?

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 211. My interview on the Wake Up Call podcast, Episode 44: Corporations and the Corporate Form. From the shownotes page: Episode Summary Stephan Kinsella joins Adam Camac and Daniel Laguros to discuss corporations and the corporate form, common objections, and state interventions in the area.   Related Articles 1. In Defense of the Corporation by Stephan Kinsella (October 27, 2005) 2. Corporate Personhood, Limited Liability, and Double Taxation by Stephan Kinsella (October 18, 2011) Books Mentioned 1. Against Intellectual Property by Stephan Kinsella 2. In Defense of the Corporation by Robert Hessen Related Interview 1. KOL170: Tom Woods Show: Are Corporations Unlibertarian? (January 24, 2015) Previous Appearance 24. The Nature of Property and Problems with Intellectual Property Laws with Stephan Kinsella (Wednesday, March 30, 2016)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 211. My interview on the Wake Up Call podcast, Episode 44: Corporations and the Corporate Form. From the shownotes page: Episode Summary Stephan Kinsella joins Adam Camac and Daniel Laguros to discuss corporations and the corporate form, common objections, and state interventions in the area.   Related Articles 1. In Defense of the Corporation by Stephan Kinsella (October 27, 2005) 2. Corporate Personhood, Limited Liability, and Double Taxation by Stephan Kinsella (October 18, 2011) Books Mentioned 1. Against Intellectual Property by Stephan Kinsella 2. In Defense of the Corporation by Robert Hessen Related Interview 1. KOL170: Tom Woods Show: Are Corporations Unlibertarian? (January 24, 2015) Previous Appearance 24. The Nature of Property and Problems with Intellectual Property Laws with Stephan Kinsella (Wednesday, March 30, 2016)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 207. A stand-alone episode recorded late at night on my iPhone—had to get it out, thinking about it was keeping me from sleeping. Audio quality is fine, though no pop filter or pro-microphone, as I just used my iPhone. Slight nasal cold leftover from snow-skiing trip altitude sickness is there, but it seems not to be too distracting. See also Kinsella, “Common Misconceptions about Plagiarism and Patents: A Call for an Independent Inventor Defense,” Mises Economics Blog (Nov. 21, 2009); and Kinsella, "If you oppose IP you support plagiarism; copying others is fraud or contract breach," in "Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Intellectual Property" C4SIF. Background material: Against Intellectual Property, "IP as Contract" section Fraud, Restitution, and Retaliation: The Libertarian Approach (Feb. 3, 2009) The Problem with “Fraud”: Fraud, Threat, and Contract Breach as Types of Aggression (July 17, 2006) Stop calling patent and copyright “property”; stop calling copying “theft” and “piracy” A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, and Inalienability, Journal of Libertarian Studies 17, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 11-37 Reply to Van Dun: Non-Aggression and Title Transfer, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 18, no. 2 (Spring 2004) See also Gregory N. Mandel, Anne A. Fast & Kristina R. Olson, "Intellectual Property Law's Plagiarism Fallacy," BYU L. Rev. 2015, no. 4 (2015): 915–83; Gregory N. Mandel, "How people understand intellectual property, creativity and reward," in Abbe E.L. Brown & Charlotte Waelde, eds., Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Creative Industries (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2018), p. 295 et pass.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 207. A stand-alone episode recorded late at night on my iPhone—had to get it out, thinking about it was keeping me from sleeping. Audio quality is fine, though no pop filter or pro-microphone, as I just used my iPhone. Slight nasal cold leftover from snow-skiing trip altitude sickness is there, but it seems not to be too distracting. Background material: Against Intellectual Property, "IP as Contract" section Fraud, Restitution, and Retaliation: The Libertarian Approach (Feb. 3, 2009) The Problem with “Fraud”: Fraud, Threat, and Contract Breach as Types of Aggression (July 17, 2006) Stop calling patent and copyright “property”; stop calling copying “theft” and “piracy” A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, and Inalienability, Journal of Libertarian Studies 17, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 11-37 Reply to Van Dun: Non-Aggression and Title Transfer, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 18, no. 2 (Spring 2004)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 206. [Transcript below] I discussed various libertarian with Tom Woods on his show today, Episode 592. From Tom's show notes: Stephan Kinsella joins me to discuss negative/positive rights and obligations, “loser pays,” whether creation makes you an owner, how we can consider spam aggression, and more. Fun! Background materials for topics discussed: Spam: Why Spam is Trespass (Jan. 18, 2010) Kinsella & Tinsley, Causation and Aggression Positive rights and libertarianism: How We Come To Own Ourselves Objectivists on Positive Parental Obligations and Abortion Loser pays unlibertarian: See "Losing Patentee Pays" section of Reducing the Cost of IP Law Creation not a source of ownership: Hoppe on Property Rights in Physical Integrity vs Value Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright “Locke on IP; Mises, Rothbard, and Rand on Creation, Production, and ‘Rearranging',” Mises Economics Blog (Sep. 29, 2010) [updated C4SIF version, including Hoppe comments] “The Intellectual Property Quagmire, or, The Perils of Libertarian Creationism,” Austrian Scholars Conference 2008 (March 13, 2008) “Objectivist Law Prof Mossoff on Copyright; or, the Misuse of Labor, Value, and Creation Metaphors,” Mises Economics Blog (April 19, 2011) Rand on IP, Owning "Values", and "Rearrangement Rights" Related/previous talks: KOL118 | Tom Woods Show: Against Fuzzy Thinking KOL 044 | “Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions” (PFS 2011) “Libertarian Controversies” “Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions,” 2011 Annual Meeting, Property and Freedom Society (May 28, 2011) [podcast here] KOL185: Clarifying Libertarian Theory (Liberty.me, July 2014) ❧ Transcript [not yet edited] Tom Woods Show: Five Mistakes Libertarians Make Stephan Kinsella and Tom Woods, "Tom Woods Show: Five Mistakes Libertarians Make," StephanKinsella.com (Feb. 12, 2016) 00:00:00 TOM WOODS: The Tom Woods Show, episode 592. 00:00:03 INTRO: Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.  Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. 00:00:14 TOM WOODS: Hey everybody.  Welcome to another episode of the show.  Talking to Stephan Kinsella today because he's just – he's got one of those sharp, sharp minds.  He thinks clearly.  He writes clearly.  He writes and speaks very precisely.  He helps to clarify my own thinking, and I thought we'd talk about some areas of libertarian thought or some questions where we're liable to get off track or get confused or maybe not really know what the right libertarian answer is.  So it's always fun to talk to Stephan who is a libertarian legal theorist.  He is the author of Against Intellectual Property and many articles that are of importance in libertarian theory.  We'll be linking, of course, to his material and his contact information at tomwoods.com/592. 00:01:09 Now, let me tell you one quick thing.  I don't know why this happens, but one episode out of 100 the recording software I use just fails completely, and you have no warning that it's going to fail.  It's recording perfectly fine.  You can catch the clock going, and then boom, no recording when you're all done.  It's Pamela, by the way, Pamela for Skype.  Now, you really need software to be 100% reliable.  You really do, so if you have an alternative to Pamela, I would grab it.  Right now, I don't have time to figure out an alternative, so thank goodness; thank goodness Stephan was recording the episode on his end.  So whatever gremlin was trying to screw with me, we got the last laugh here because Stephan was doing the recording. 00:01:52 So in this episode, his audio will be better than mine because he's recording himself basically locally and then me through Skype, so his audio will be better than mine.  That's the reason.  And then at the end,

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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 184. Last month I attended PorcFest 2015 and delivered this talk on intellectual property. Video version below (followed by a lower quality version shot by James Cox). I also participated in a debate on anarchy and participated in a couple of radio shows (Ernie Hancock's Freedom Phoenix and Free Talk Live). James Cox shot some other videos as well, which are up on his channel; a few of these are also embedded below. Porcfest 2015: The Root of All Evil (official PorcFest version) Lecture: Intellectual Property is the Root of All Evil: Porcfest 2015 (James Cox version)   Stephan Kinsella - Intellectual Property: The Root of All Evil Sign up or log in to save this event to your list and see who's attending! TweetShare In this talk, Kinsella explains that the most evil state policies and institutions include war, taxation, state provided education, central banking, the drug war — and intellectual property, or IP, namely patent and copyright law. In the modern age, IP's importance, and the damage it causes, have increased. Patent originated in protectionism and mercantilism, while copyright originated in censorship. In this modern age of high tech, globalization and international trade, the economic cost of patent law and its detrimental effect on innovation has gotten many times worse. Copyright limits the freedom to learn and communicate and threatens to undermine freedom on the Internet, one of the most important tools to fight against the state. Kinsella, a practicing patent attorney, argues that IP is in a sense the most insidious of the major state institutions. War, taxation, the drug war, and other state laws and institutions are obviously illiberal and rights violations. However, patent and copyright law fly under the banner of intellectual "property" rights, confusing even many anti-state libertarians, who normally support property rights. Kinsella argues that IP rights are based on a fallacious understanding of rights—namely, confusions in Locke's 'labor theory of property'—and that this error pervades and corrupts much modern thinking about the role of law and property rights and the state. The damage caused and the threat posed by IP is greater than most people realize; it is growing; and the intellectual error behind it must be exposed. Speakers Stephan Kinsella Executive Editor, Libertarian Papers Stephan Kinsella is a practicing patent attorney and a libertarian writer and speaker. He Founder and Executive Editor of Libertarian Papers, Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF). A former adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law, he has published numerous articles and books on IP law, international law, and the application of libertarian principles to legal topics, including Against Intellectual Property... Read More → Friday June 26, 2015 5:00pm - 5:45pm PAVILION   Philosophy Attendees (46) Attendance numbers do not account for private attendees. Get there early!

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 184. Last month I attended PorcFest 2015 and delivered this talk on intellectual property. Video version below (followed by a lower quality version shot by James Cox). I also participated in a debate on anarchy and participated in a couple of radio shows (Ernie Hancock’s Freedom Phoenix and Free Talk Live). James Cox shot some other videos as well, which are up on his channel; a few of these are also embedded below. Porcfest 2015: The Root of All Evil (official PorcFest version) Lecture: Intellectual Property is the Root of All Evil: Porcfest 2015 (James Cox version)   Stephan Kinsella - Intellectual Property: The Root of All Evil Sign up or log in to save this event to your list and see who's attending! TweetShare In this talk, Kinsella explains that the most evil state policies and institutions include war, taxation, state provided education, central banking, the drug war — and intellectual property, or IP, namely patent and copyright law. In the modern age, IP's importance, and the damage it causes, have increased. Patent originated in protectionism and mercantilism, while copyright originated in censorship. In this modern age of high tech, globalization and international trade, the economic cost of patent law and its detrimental effect on innovation has gotten many times worse. Copyright limits the freedom to learn and communicate and threatens to undermine freedom on the Internet, one of the most important tools to fight against the state. Kinsella, a practicing patent attorney, argues that IP is in a sense the most insidious of the major state institutions. War, taxation, the drug war, and other state laws and institutions are obviously illiberal and rights violations. However, patent and copyright law fly under the banner of intellectual "property" rights, confusing even many anti-state libertarians, who normally support property rights. Kinsella argues that IP rights are based on a fallacious understanding of rights—namely, confusions in Locke's 'labor theory of property'—and that this error pervades and corrupts much modern thinking about the role of law and property rights and the state. The damage caused and the threat posed by IP is greater than most people realize; it is growing; and the intellectual error behind it must be exposed. Speakers Stephan Kinsella Executive Editor, Libertarian Papers Stephan Kinsella is a practicing patent attorney and a libertarian writer and speaker. He Founder and Executive Editor of Libertarian Papers, Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF). A former adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law, he has published numerous articles and books on IP law, international law, and the application of libertarian principles to legal topics, including Against Intellectual Property... Read More → Friday June 26, 2015 5:00pm - 5:45pm PAVILION   Philosophy Attendees (46) Attendance numbers do not account for private attendees. Get there early!

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 183. I recently attended PorcFest 2015 and participated in a debate on anarchy and other matters, plus a speech on IP as the Root of All Evil. The YouTube, filmed by James Cox, is below. The audio here was captured by my iphone. Update: From Ayn Rand in the Campground: The Atlas Society at PorcFest "During a highlight of the conference -- people had been anticipating it for weeks -- William Thomas debated Rand's principle of minimal government with anarchist Stephen Kinsella to a packed and lively audience. The tent was full, with standing room only, and people were still spilling out of the tent. Everyone listened with rapt attention, cheered their favorite points, and hung around for hours afterward to talk and debate ideas. (See the video, here: https://goo.gl/snjmXE)   Lecture: Intellectual Property is the Root of All Evil: Porcfest 2015 Also: Appeared as a guest on Ernie Hancock's Freedom's Phoenix episode for 6/26/15 (in Hour 2). We discussed IP-related aspects of bitcoin, MaidSAFE, etc.). Appeared as a guest of Mark Edge on Free Talk Live, June 26, 2015 (starts at 40:28) (video is here) Other (mostly fun, social): Stephan Kinsella Meets Ernie Hancock at Porcfest 2015 Stephan Kinsella Meets Adam Kokesh at Porcfest 2015   Stephan Kinsella Meets Derrick J Host Of Flaming Freedom at Porcfest 2015 Larken Rose, Stephan Kinsella and Daniel Rothschild Anarchy at The Rock (PorcFest 2015) This is an impromptu video shot by James Cox of some discussions with Larken Rose who was sitting under his "rock" for several days. Stephan Kinsella Chalks Porcfest 2015 K-Man Style Porcfest 2015 Talk Stephan Kinsella, Ganine Van Alst, Daniel Rothschild, Evan Isaac, Eliza Sprague   Friday, June 26 • 10:30am - 11:20am Anarchism, for and against: a debate Sign up or log in to save this event to your list and see who's attending! TweetShare Does a commitment to liberty imply a commitment to anarchy, or the total elimination of government? Is a stable, anarchic system of liberty possible or desirable? David Kelley will moderate a debate on these issues between Stephan Kinsella Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom and William Thomas of The Atlas Society. Moderators David Kelley Chief Intellectual Officer, The Atlas Society David Kelley is the founder and Chief Intellectual Officer of The Atlas Society. After earning a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University in 1975, he joined the philosophy department of Vassar College, where he remained until 1984. He has also taught at Brandeis University as a Visiting Lecturer. Among his books are Unrugged Individualism: The Selfish Basis of Benevolence; The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand; The Evidence of the Senses, a... Read More → Speakers Stephan Kinsella Executive Editor, Libertarian Papers Stephan Kinsella is a practicing patent attorney and a libertarian writer and speaker. He Founder and Executive Editor of Libertarian Papers, Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF). A former adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law, he has published numerous articles and books on IP law, international law, and the application of libertarian principles to legal topics, including Against Intellectual Property... Read More → William Thomas Director of Programs, The Atlas Society - The Center for Objectivism William R Thomas is Director of Programs at The Atlas Society. He has a Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Michigan, and has served as Lecturer in Economics there and at the University at Albany. He has been a lecturer at Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia and conducted research under the auspices of the People's University of China. He is a graduate of Oberlin College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Thomas is the... Read More →

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 183. I recently attended PorcFest 2015 and participated in a debate on anarchy and other matters, plus a speech on IP as the Root of All Evil. The YouTube, filmed by James Cox, is below. The audio here was captured by my iphone. Update: From Ayn Rand in the Campground: The Atlas Society at PorcFest "During a highlight of the conference -- people had been anticipating it for weeks -- William Thomas debated Rand’s principle of minimal government with anarchist Stephen Kinsella to a packed and lively audience. The tent was full, with standing room only, and people were still spilling out of the tent. Everyone listened with rapt attention, cheered their favorite points, and hung around for hours afterward to talk and debate ideas. (See the video, here: https://goo.gl/snjmXE)   Lecture: Intellectual Property is the Root of All Evil: Porcfest 2015 Also: Appeared as a guest on Ernie Hancock's Freedom's Phoenix episode for 6/26/15 (in Hour 2). We discussed IP-related aspects of bitcoin, MaidSAFE, etc.). Appeared as a guest of Mark Edge on Free Talk Live, June 26, 2015 (starts at 40:28) (video is here) Other (mostly fun, social): Stephan Kinsella Meets Ernie Hancock at Porcfest 2015 Stephan Kinsella Meets Adam Kokesh at Porcfest 2015   Stephan Kinsella Meets Derrick J Host Of Flaming Freedom at Porcfest 2015 Larken Rose, Stephan Kinsella and Daniel Rothschild Anarchy at The Rock (PorcFest 2015) This is an impromptu video shot by James Cox of some discussions with Larken Rose who was sitting under his "rock" for several days. Stephan Kinsella Chalks Porcfest 2015 K-Man Style Porcfest 2015 Talk Stephan Kinsella, Ganine Van Alst, Daniel Rothschild, Evan Isaac, Eliza Sprague   Friday, June 26 • 10:30am - 11:20am Anarchism, for and against: a debate Sign up or log in to save this event to your list and see who's attending! TweetShare Does a commitment to liberty imply a commitment to anarchy, or the total elimination of government? Is a stable, anarchic system of liberty possible or desirable? David Kelley will moderate a debate on these issues between Stephan Kinsella Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom and William Thomas of The Atlas Society. Moderators David Kelley Chief Intellectual Officer, The Atlas Society David Kelley is the founder and Chief Intellectual Officer of The Atlas Society. After earning a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University in 1975, he joined the philosophy department of Vassar College, where he remained until 1984. He has also taught at Brandeis University as a Visiting Lecturer. Among his books are Unrugged Individualism: The Selfish Basis of Benevolence; The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand; The Evidence of the Senses, a... Read More → Speakers Stephan Kinsella Executive Editor, Libertarian Papers Stephan Kinsella is a practicing patent attorney and a libertarian writer and speaker. He Founder and Executive Editor of Libertarian Papers, Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF). A former adjunct professor at South Texas College of Law, he has published numerous articles and books on IP law, international law, and the application of libertarian principles to legal topics, including Against Intellectual Property... Read More → William Thomas Director of Programs, The Atlas Society - The Center for Objectivism William R Thomas is Director of Programs at The Atlas Society. He has a Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Michigan, and has served as Lecturer in Economics there and at the University at Albany. He has been a lecturer at Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia and conducted research under the auspices of the People's University of China. He is a graduate of Oberlin College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Thomas is the... Read More →

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 180. Jeff Tucker and I discussed IP and my original Against Intellectual Property article. The video can be seen here, and it's embedded below: Spreecast is the social video platform that connects people. Check out Liberty Classics: Against IP on Spreecast.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 149. My recent appearance on the Non-Aggression Podcast with host Mike Cuneo, aka 412 Libertarian. We talked about IP, Georgism, Stefan Molyneux's use of the DMCA to do a copyright takedown of a critic on youtube, whether Hitler is responsible for the holocaust, and the like. From his show notes: IP And Beyond With Stephan Kinsella – Non-Aggression Podcast I had the pleasure of speaking at length with Stephan Kinsella, a patent attorney, libertarian author and scholar, and head of the Center For The Study of Innovative Freedom, or C4SIV. Stephan also runs the site StephanKinsella.com Causation and Aggression (free PDF file), the paper we spoke about in the later part of the podcast. One of my favorite articles of all time, “What It Means To Be An Anarcho Capitalist.” Kinsella is the author of the groundbreaking book “Against Intellectual Property”(freely available for download) Here is the article that I alluded to when speaking about the marble statue example, as to why creation alone is not sufficient or necessary for ownership.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 149. My recent appearance on the Non-Aggression Podcast with host Mike Cuneo, aka 412 Libertarian. We talked about IP, Georgism, Stefan Molyneux's use of the DMCA to do a copyright takedown of a critic on youtube, whether Hitler is responsible for the holocaust, and the like. From his show notes: IP And Beyond With Stephan Kinsella – Non-Aggression Podcast I had the pleasure of speaking at length with Stephan Kinsella, a patent attorney, libertarian author and scholar, and head of the Center For The Study of Innovative Freedom, or C4SIV. Stephan also runs the site StephanKinsella.com Causation and Aggression (free PDF file), the paper we spoke about in the later part of the podcast. One of my favorite articles of all time, “What It Means To Be An Anarcho Capitalist.” Kinsella is the author of the groundbreaking book “Against Intellectual Property”(freely available for download) Here is the article that I alluded to when speaking about the marble statue example, as to why creation alone is not sufficient or necessary for ownership.

Stephan Kinsella, director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom and author of Against Intellectual Property, makes the libertarian case against patents.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 144. I was a guest back in Mar. 28, 2012  on The Corbett Report, with host James Corbett (from Japan), discussing IP. From his description: Corbett Report Radio 099 – Against Intellectual Property with Stephan Kinsella Posted by Corbett Writer, thinker, lawyer and Austro-anarchist libertarian legal theorist Stephan Kinsella joins us to discuss his writing on intellectual property. We discuss the philosophical roots of property rights, how IP differs from those concepts, and how alternative models of making money from creative work are being pioneered in the age of the internet.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 144. I was a guest back in Mar. 28, 2012  on The Corbett Report, with host James Corbett (from Japan), discussing IP. From his description: Corbett Report Radio 099 – Against Intellectual Property with Stephan Kinsella Posted by Corbett Writer, thinker, lawyer and Austro-anarchist libertarian legal theorist Stephan Kinsella joins us to discuss his writing on intellectual property. We discuss the philosophical roots of property rights, how IP differs from those concepts, and how alternative models of making money from creative work are being pioneered in the age of the internet.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 077. Lions of Liberty podcast. From Marc Clair's podcast description: Episode 1: Stephan Kinsella September 13, 2013 In this inaugural edition of the Lions of Liberty Podcast, host Marc Clair interviews libertarian legal scholar Stephan Kinsella about the concept of intellectual property and the libertarian framework. Lions of Liberty Podcast, Ep. 1: Stephan Kinsella Finally! The long-anticipated Lions of Liberty Podcast has arrived! In this first episode, I spoke with Stephan Kinsella regarding the subject of intellectual property within the libertarian framework.  Kinsella is the author of Against Intellectual Property, and is one of the best-known voices in the libertarian community against the concept of intellectual property. I found the conversation with Kinsella very interesting and I feel it will be helpful not only for those trying to sort out a stance on intellectual property, but also for those new to libertarian ideas in sorting out some of the finer details of a libertarian framework. Before launching into tirades about “private property” and “contracts”, it's important to have a firm grasp on the definitions of these terms. I first came to the IP debate through the “debate” between Kinsella and Robert Wenzel on the issue, which served more as car-crash entertainment than an intellectual study. But it did peak my interest in an area I had honestly not given much thought to before. After reading his book and speaking further with him on the issue, I find it difficult to present a case in favor of intellectual property, at least as we know the concept today. The biggest problem I see with intellectual property is that it attempts to bind third parties, not privy to any sort of contract, and prohibit them from using their own property in a way they see fit. I tend to agree with Kinsella's view that intellectual property is nothing more than the State's granting of a monopoly on an idea or a pattern of ideas. The biggest difference between Kinsella and myself is that I may see a private society, sans the State, as coming up with more ways to protect their works through contracts and/or user agreements, but ultimately that can only go so far. Any differences we may have on just how far private arrangements to protect the work of artists may go are largely moot. When it comes to forming a libertarian position on a subject, we should not be asking “how will this work?” but “what is right?” Your feedback is welcome and encouraged! This is my first attempt at conducting an interview or producing a podcast, so I promise I won't be offended. Drop me an email at marc@lionsofliberty.com. I have some interesting guests planned for future shows, so stay tuned!

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 055. This is from The Voluntary Life, Author Interview: Stephan Kinsella on Against Intellectual Property (March 20, 2010; also podcast as Episode 1616 of Freedomain Radio, as Stefan Molyneux joined in too). See also their interesting episode Against Intellectual Property: A Follow Up Discussion.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 043. This is my appearance on Michael Shanklin's Triple-V: Voluntary Virtues Vodcast with Michael Shanklin (April 25, 2013). We discussed a variety of issues, including: Bitcoin, the police state, legal reform (jury nullification, loser-pays rules), the morality of voting, Rothbard on copyright (for more: see Against Intellectual Property, "Contract vs. Reserved Rights" section, and Rothbard's “High Tech ‘Crime': A Call for Papers” (1983)), the history of patent and copyright (for more: see Karl Fogel's article The Surprising History of Copyright and The Promise of a Post-Copyright World), and other issues. Our previous discussion: KOL 025 | Triple-V: Voluntary Virtues Vodcast, with Michael Shanklin: Intellectual Property, Ron Paul vs RonPaul.Com, Aaron Swartz, Corporatism.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 043. This is my appearance on Michael Shanklin’s Triple-V: Voluntary Virtues Vodcast with Michael Shanklin (April 25, 2013). We discussed a variety of issues, including: Bitcoin, the police state, legal reform (jury nullification, loser-pays rules), the morality of voting, Rothbard on copyright (for more: see Against Intellectual Property, "Contract vs. Reserved Rights" section, and Rothbard’s “High Tech ‘Crime’: A Call for Papers” (1983)), the history of patent and copyright (for more: see Karl Fogel's article The Surprising History of Copyright and The Promise of a Post-Copyright World), and other issues. Our previous discussion: KOL 025 | Triple-V: Voluntary Virtues Vodcast, with Michael Shanklin: Intellectual Property, Ron Paul vs RonPaul.Com, Aaron Swartz, Corporatism.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 038. [Update: see my post Wenzel the Werewolf] Blogger Robert Wenzel and I had a "debate" earlier today about IP, to be jointly put up on my podcast and his Economic Policy Journal "podcast" (it's on his site at Kinsella Crushed!! and Initial Report on Debate, and mentioned ahead of time several times as linked below). Bob is an Austrian libertarian (I think) blogger but has been criticizing me and Jeff Tucker's anti-IP views for a few years now (see links below), so we decided to discuss it. (( Note: I failed to record the audio at my end until 1:07:10, but my audio quality was better. So I spliced in the better second half from my recording. So starting at 1:07:10 you can hear better audio quality at my end, and no worse at Wenzel's. )) The transcript is available here. Youtube: Backup copy: The discussion went on for over 2 hours. It went about as I expected: he tried to dwell on side points, he refused to—was unable to—even attempt to define IP much less provide a coherent justification for it. He repeatedly engaged in question-begging: calling using information you learn from others "stealing," which presupposes that there is some owned thing that is stolen. He started out with several bizarre, off-point attacks: for example challenging my claim in my 2001 piece Against Intellectual Property that Rothbard was one of the original libertarian opponents of IP. The entire criticism by Wenzel is bizarre because whether or not I am right in listing Rothbard as an opponent of patent and copyright has nothing to do with whether IP is justified. Further, later in the paper I have an extensive section dealing with Rothbard's attempt to come up with some kind of contractual scheme that emulated some aspects of IP, which he confusingly calls "copyright." Some libertarians, like Wenzel, apparently think Rothbard did support copyright (though Wenzel repeatedly equivocates on whether he is talking about state copyright or Rothbard's private "copyright" scheme), or patent, or something in between, and others say he didn't. For example  David Gordon writing on LewRockwell.com, in Sam Konkin and Libertarian Theory, observes: ... anti-IP views were very much in the air thirty years ago: Wendy McElroy stands out especially in my mind as a forceful and effective critic of IP. Even earlier, Rothbard had in Man, Economy, and State (1962) favored the replacement of the state system of patents and copyrights with contractual arrangements, freely negotiated. (If one moves outside modern libertarianism, Benjamin Tucker rejected IP well over a century ago as Wendy McElroy has documented in an outstanding article. Rothbard did not take this "contractual copyright" idea very far and indeed I believe it contradicts other aspects of his thought such as his contract theory (ch. 19 of Ethics of Liberty), his opposition to reputation rights/defamation law (ch. 16), and his explicit opposition to patents (ch. 16, also Man, Economy, and State and Power and Market, Scholars Edition, pp. liv, 745-54, 1133-38, 1181-86). But anyway, what does it matter? It's a bizarre appeal to authority. I am quite sure that Rothbard would have agreed with us anti-IP libertarians if he had had more time to sort it out; as I noted, it's implied in all the structure of his political theory. This is why Hoppe easily saw this by integrating Rothbardian  and Misesian political economic ideas (Hoppe on Intellectual Property). But so what if he would not have? Then he would have been wrong. And so what if I had been wrong in listing Rothbard as an early libertarian opponent of IP (though he arguably was; although as the paper explained later on, his position was not fully fleshed out and/or had ambiguities). How does this prove IP is legitimate? It does not, but Wenzel has no good argument for IP which is why he for over two hours refuses my repeated requests that he provide one—after all,

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 035. This is from my Antiwar Interview: Kinsella on Bill of Rights, Intellectual Property by host Scott Horton (Feb. 11, 2010). We discussed "the federal government's appropriation of the Bill of Rights – through the 14th Amendment – to regulate state powers, the debate about whether current lawlessness can rightfully be blamed on deviation from the beneficent Constitution or if the problem lies in the deeply flawed document itself and why ideas can't be property." For more on the latter, see the C4SIF Resources page.  For more on constitutional sentimentalism and related issues, see  “Thumbs Down on the Fourth of July” (and posts linked therein) and On Constitutional Sentimentalism. Antiwar Radio: Stephan Kinsella   *** Antiwar Radio: Stephan Kinsella Posted by Scott in February 11th, 2010 No Comments Yet Posted in: Uncategorized Tags: Antiwar Radio, Scott-Horton, Stephan Kinsella Stephan Kinsella, fellow at the Mises Institute and author of the book Against Intellectual Property [.pdf], discusses the federal government's appropriation of the Bill of Rights – through the 14th Amendment – to regulate state powers, the debate about whether current lawlessness can rightfully be blamed on deviation from the beneficent Constitution or if the problem lies in the deeply flawed document itself and why ideas can't be property. // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ pp_flashembed( 'powerpress_player_4654', {src: 'http://www.scotthortonshow.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/FlowPlayerClassic.swf', width: 320, height: 24, wmode: 'transparent' }, {config: { autoPlay: false, autoBuffering: false, initialScale: 'scale', showFullScreenButton: false, showMenu: false, videoFile: 'http://scotthorton.org/radio/10_02_11_kinsella.mp3', loop: false, autoRewind: true } } ); // ]]>Podcast: Play in new window | Download (5.5MB) (local copy)

Chase and Mike talk with Stephan Kinsella about the roots of the non-aggression principle (NAP), and ethics. Stephan is well known for his work with intellectual property laws, but few interviewers pick his brain about such deep topics as argumentative ethics. You can find Stephan's concise guide to argumentative ethics here: https://mises.org/daily/5322/ Find out more about the man and his work here: http://www.stephankinsella.com/ And buy his book "Against Intellectual Property" at Amazon.com The Opening song: "Right place, wrong time" by Dr. John

An episode about the problems with Intellectual Property, from the perspective of an entrepreneur. I started off thinking that IP is an integral and necessary part of entrepreneurship. I thought that it would be very important for my business.  I have now come to see IP law as something that: prevents innovation, is immoral, promotes conflict, diverts resources to unproductive uses and is ultimately unnecessary for making money from ideas. Show Notes: Against Intellectual Monopoly by Boldrin and Levine Article about the Shopping Cart case Against Intellectual Property by Kinsella

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 008. This is an audiobook version of my Against Intellectual Property (1 hr 54 min.); .mp3 format or .m4b iTunes book format (each about 57M); also available in a Mises.org version and on iTunes U. Narrated by Jock Coats. A second version is here: KOL373 | Against Intellectual Property (audiobook #2).

From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.

From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.

From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.

From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.

From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.

From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.

From the audio version of Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by Jock Coats.

Let's hope this next decade will be better than the last one regarding prospects for freedom... Back to Basics on Property and Competition by Jeffrey A. Tucker http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker129.html Property rights aren't respected by governments in civilization; "laws" created by a coercive monopoly infringe on them daily People in the marketplace are the ones who respect property rights, not government Laws, and the people who make (and interpret) them, seek to control others, not respect freedom and justice Property rights exist to make distinctions concerning who owns what and who can therefore utilize what, without conflict or confusion Plagiarism is generally frowned up, and provides a marketplace check against confusion and fraud charges The tentacles of statism in the realm of IP are pervasive, as are the unseen costs of IP laws "Anti-trust" law was created by gangsters with no good intentions A "competitive" marketplace is just one in which people bring values to others unimpeded An Objectivist Recants on IP http://blog.mises.org/archives/011162.asp The principle of self-ownership represents the unification of liberty and property IP fosters rampant legal conflict, on account of it contradicting real property rights The first serious critique I read against IP (hat tip to Ian Freeman of http://freetalklive.com)... Against Intellectual Property by Stephan Kinsella http://mises.org/journals/jls/15_2/15_2_1.pdf Classic J. Neil: Informational Property — Logorights http://jneilschulman.rationalreview.com/2009/12/classic-j-neil-informational-property-logorights/ The human brain is arguably the most complex thing in the known universe, a massively parallel processor Our future, perhaps...The Intelligent Universe by Ray Kurzweil http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0534.html Big picture stuff...The Age of Spiritual Machines: Timeline by Raymond Kurzweil http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0274.html Once patterns of information are released into the marketplace, individuals will likely seek to duplicate them (without conflict) Again, trying to control duplicates of what you've created leads to conflict with others' property rights, as well as more statism and unintended business consequences Complete Liberty IP Chapter: http://completeliberty.com/chapter6.php audio version: http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=208107 Holding back progress in the name of the state by Kent McManigal http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-5723-Albuquerque-Libertarian-Examiner~y2009m10d18-Holding-back-progress-in-the-name-of-the-state Stay tuned for more videos of activism in San Diego, including my recent trip to the DMV http://youtube.com/completeliberty http://youtube.com/hotforliberty bumper music "Master Of Puppets" by Metallica http://metallica.com/ to comment, please go to http://completeliberty.com/magazine/category/91697