intellectual property

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2019-07-16%20David%20Levine.mp3"][/audio]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.

TechDirt is claiming that the EU's Intellectual Property Office has just released the dumbest propaganda video ever: "IPDENTICAL: imagine a world without creativity." So is it really that bad? Let's roll up our sleeves and find out.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 271. This is my appearance on Let’s Talk ETC! #87 (June 24, 2019), with host Dr. Christian Seberino. From his shownotes: Stephan Kinsella is a Houston patent lawyer and libertarian advocate. He joins me for an informative discussion about libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism and related blockchain legal issues. Topics addressed include how […]

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 270. This is my second appearance on The Corbett Report (Ep. 1453, 25 June 2019), with host James Corbett (from Japan): Interview 1453 – Stephan Kinsella on Law Without the State Stephan Kinsella joins us today to discuss the concept of law without the state. Is law and order possible […]

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 269. My old friend Jack Criss, former libertarian AM radio talk show host from the 1980s and now a business journalist and publisher, throws his hat into the podcast ring. He interviewed me today. His episode page is here.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 268. I was a guest on Episode 39 of the excellent podcast The Bob Murphy Show, discussing “Law Without the State, and the Illegitimacy of IP (Intellectual Property)”. A few people have told me this particular discussion of IP was one of my best–thorough and systematic. No doubt aided by […]

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 267. I was a guest today on Sal Mayweather’s “The Agora” podcast, ep. 48 (Soundcloud version below). From his shownotes: We discussed Craig’s copyright application of the Bitcoin White Paper and whether they lend any credence to his claim of being Satoshi Nakamoto. Does a copyright application imply that CSW […]

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 266. This is my appearance in Episode 36 of the Did You Know Crypto Podcast, with host Dustin. We talked “about the possibility of using patents as an attack vector on Bitcoin.” As Dustin summarized in his show notes: Stephan and I talk about… What is a Patent? Differences in […]

Contre la Propriété Intellectuelle, a French translation of my  Against Intellectual Property, translated by Daivy Merlijs and Stéphane Geyres, is now available. According to the translator, the previous French translation available was not complete. The present translation is complete and also has updated the dead URLs as footnotes using Wayback Machine. Here are PDF, mobi, […]

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 265. This is my conversation with Jordan Head, who expressed some disagreement or confusion about my Against IP book on a Twitter thread; I offered to discuss with him, as I often do, and he took me up on it and consented to my recording it and posting it. His […]