intellectual property

KOL205 | Austrian AV Club Interview—Mises Institute Canada: Net Neutrality, Internet freedom, SOPA, ACTA, child pornography, terrorism, online gambling (2012)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 205. This is my Austrian AV Club Interview by Redmond Weissenberger, Director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, back from Aug. 25, 2012. We had a long-ranging discussion on the issue of net neutrality, and we touched on other issues as well including various ways the state impinges on Internet freedom, such […]

KOL204 | Outside the Music Box Interview: The Ins and Outs of Intellectual Property

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 204. From episode 087 of the Outside the Music Box podcast, “A PODCAST ABOUT PEOPLE, Centered on Music,” hosted by James Newcomb [later re-podcast by Newcomb for his Trumpet Dynamics podcast, Ep. 80 Intellectual Property Overview]. In this episode of Outside the Music Box, we discuss one of the most sacred […]

KOL198 | Intellectual Property as Limits on Property; Trade Secrets and Contract

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 198. This is a discussion with Ash Navabi, an economics grad student at George Mason, who messaged me this question: Hi Stephan. I’m having a conceptual problem distinguishing IP and tangible property. In Against IP, you said that an IP right gives the IP owner “invariably transfer partial ownership of tangible […]

KOL193 | The Economy with Albert Lu: On IP and Double Counting (3/3)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 193. This is my appearance on Albert Lu’s “The Economy” podcast. This is part 3 of 3. We discussed property rights, bitcoin ownership, intellectual property, and related matters. See also: KOL085 | The History, Meaning, and Future of Legal Tender Episode video below: Full video of all three parts below.

KOL192 | The Economy with Albert Lu: On the Legal Significance of Ownership (2/3)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 192. This is my appearance on Albert Lu’s “The Economy” podcast, Episode 2015-9-23. This is part 2 of 3. From Albert Lu’s description: Your host Albert continues the discussion with patent attorney Stephan Kinsella. In the second of a three-part interview, they discuss the concept of “ownership”. Topics Covered The entire world is made […]

KOL190 | On Life without Patents and Copyright: Or, But Who Would Pick the Cotton? (PFS 2015)

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 […]