Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 219. I delivered a talk earlier today for the Houston Property Rights Association (April 28, 2017), “Property: What It Is and Isn’t,” which sets out the framework for how to view property rights in general and then finally turns to intellectual property. The main talk lasted for about the first 30 […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 190. This is my talk “On Life without Patents and Copyright: Or, Who Would Pick The Cotton?”, delivered at the Property and Freedom Society, 10th Annual Meeting, Bodrum, Turkey (Sep. 13, 2015). Also available as PFP143 (which contains the official audio instead of the iPhone audio). Update: See KOL190 | Part […]
I am slated to deliver a keynote speech on “Legislation and the State’s Corruption of Private Law—Louisiana’s Special Connection,” for the Louisiana Libertarian Party Annual Convention (tentative topic), to be held at the Belle of Baton Rouge Casino and Hotel (April 16, 2016). More details presently.
Speaking on “Balancing Intellectual Property Rights and Civil Liberties: A Libertarian Perspective” (“The Politic Presents” lecture series, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Oct. 2, 2014) Speaking on “Libertarianism After Fifty Years: A Reassessment and Reappraisal,” NYC LibertyFest (October 11, 2014)
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 134. [Update: Transcript is here, and appended below.] This is my appearance as a Guest panelist on This Week in Law, Episode 267 (July 18, 2014). Brief description: “Are patent trolls losing ground? Dish Anywhere in the Aereo aftermath, FCC gets 1 million comments on U.S. net neutrality debate and more!” Once again, the hosts […]
Stephen F. Austin State University‘s Young Americans for Liberty chapter and the Charles Koch Foundation will be hosting a conference called “Liberty in the Pines” (facebook event) later this month at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas (about 2 hours N of Houston). I will be speaking on “Locke’s Big Mistake: How the Labor Theory of Property […]
[update: see KOL108 | “Why ‘Intellectual Property’ is not Genuine Property,” Adam Smith Forum, Moscow (2011)] As I noted in a previous post, the 3rd Adam Smith Forum was held earlier this month (Nov. 12, 2011) in Moscow. This event was organized by the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, the Libertarian Party of Russia, […]
The 3rd Adam Smith Forum is being held Nov. 12, 2011 in Moscow. This is an impressive event, organized by the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, the Libertarian Party of Russia, and others. The Chairman of the ASF Steering Committee is economist Pavel Usanov, head of the Hayek Institute for Economy and Law; Andrey […]
I’ll be appearing as a speaker and panelist at the upcoming Open Science Summit, Oct. 22, 2011, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA. My topic is “IP and the New Mercantilism,” as part of panel “The Future (End) of ‘Intellectual Property.'” I’m very stoked about meeting some non-libertarians who have anti-IP or […]
I appeared last year on the Gene Basler Show, discussing a variety of anarcho-libertarian matters–environmentalism, nuclear power, state propaganda in government schools, class action lawsuits, reparations, how to achieve an anarcho-libertarian society, animal rights, positive rights and obligations, forced heirship, and so on (May 30, 2010). Apparently Basler has a book coming out, Environmental Non-Policy: […]
