Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 277. I participated in a debate sponsored by America’s Future Foundation-Phoenix this past Thursday, Nov. 14, against local patent attorney Maria Crimi Speth. This is the audio from my iPhone. Probably inferior. I’ll release better quality media if it becomes available later.
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 276. This is my speech delivered for the Troesh Talk, part of the Business Colloquium course, at the Tom and Vi Zapara School of Business at La Sierra University Nov. 12, 2019. I was invited by Associate Dean Gary Chartier, who runs the Colloquium. The audience consisted mainly of business and […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 275. This is my appearance in Episode 54 of the Did You Know Crypto Podcast, with host Dustin Dreifuerst. We talked about ownership of bitcoin and related issues. As Dustin summarized in his show notes: Stephan and I talk about… Ownership, Control & Property as Legal concepts Why you cant actually […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 274. [Update: For an article based on the transcript, see “Nobody Owns Bitcoin,” StephanKinsella.com (Sept. 20, 2019) Update: See KOL395 | Selling Does Not Imply Ownership, and Vice-Versa: A Dissection (PFS 2022).] This is my presentation to the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society on Sunday, Sept. […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 272. This is my appearance on the Ernie Hancock “Declare your Independence” show for Aug. 21 (Hour 2). We discussed defamation law and reputation rights, and some related matters. Related links: Rothbard, Knowledge, True and False Block, Defending the Undefendable, ch. 7 “The Slanderer and Libeler” David Kelley vs. Nat Hentoff […]
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2019-08-01%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio]This week on the New World Next Week: The weaponization of space continues apace; a New York area fire commission calls for a new investigation of 9/11; and Pfizer spins off its generic drug division.
What is “intellectual property,” exactly? Where does this pernicious idea come from? And how does this philosophical wrong turn lead us not just into the heart of absurdity, but toward the censorship of the internet and the control of your genome? Find out in this jam-packed edition of The Corbett Report . . . and stay tuned for the worldwide debut of James Corbett’s blockbuster online protest song, “IP Freely (Screw YouTube)”!
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode360-lq.mp3"][/audio]What is "intellectual property," exactly? Where does this pernicious idea come from? And how does this philosophical wrong turn lead us not just into the heart of absurdity, but toward the censorship of the internet and the control of your genome? Find out in this jam-packed edition of The Corbett Report . . . and stay tuned for the worldwide debut of James Corbett's blockbuster online protest song, "IP Freely (Screw YouTube)"!
David K. Levine is an economist at the European University Institute and at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author with Michele Boldrin of Against Intellectual Monopoly, an empirical study of the economics of intellectual property that concludes that IP is not necessary for innovation and as a practical matter is damaging to growth, prosperity and liberty.
