intellectual property

KOL412 | IP Law Tutorial, Part 3: Trademark, Trade Secret, and Other

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 412. As noted in KOL409 (Part 1: Patent Law) and KOL411 (Part 2: Copyright Law), although I’ve done dozens of speeches and interviews over the past 20 or so years on libertarian aspects of intellectual property, or IP, that is, on IP policy, I’ve never done any in depth lectures for […]

Reply to Van Dun: Non-Aggression and Title Transfer

“Reply to Van Dun: Non-Aggression and Title Transfer,” J. Libertarian Stud. 18, no. 2 (Spring 2004): 55–64. Revised version in Legal Foundations of a Free Society (forthcoming 2023). (Summary of this JLS issue.) This article is a reply to Frank van Dun, “Against Libertarian Legalism: A Comment on Kinsella and Block,” J. Libertarian Stud. 17, […]

KOL408 | Soul of Enterprise #432: Abolishing IP

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 […]

KOL404 | Webinar: How Humanity’s Progress Has Been Held Back: The Case Against IP (Intellectual Property) (Freedom Hub Working Group)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 404. This was my Webinar presentation at the Freedom Hub Working Group, billed as: “For Over-Drugging of our Bodies and Food, Blame INTELLECTUAL Property” (Wed., Feb. 9, 2023), with co-hosts Jim Grapek and Charles Frohman. It was released under the title “How Humanity’s Progress Has Been Held Back: The Case […]

KOL395 | Selling Does Not Imply Ownership, and Vice-Versa: A Dissection (PFS 2022)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 395. [Temporary revised version of transcript (pdf) prepared for the forthcoming Legal Foundations of a Free Society; to be updated upon publication] From the recently-concluded Sixteenth Annual (2022) Meeting of the PFS, Bodrum, Turkey (Sep. 17, 2022). The video as well as slide presentation is also streamed below (ppt). I […]

KOL393 | Trying to Talk Some IP Sense into Dennis from Las Vegas

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 393. After a Twitter spat with Las Vegas Libertarian about IP (see here and here), I offered to have a discussion with him. I didn’t make much headway, but it was a fun, robust discussion. Oh well. I tried. Related: “The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (July 28, 2010) Yet […]