intellectual property

KOL163 | CTIR Interview on Intellectual Property

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 163. I was interviewed yesterday by James Sirois of the Critical Thinking is Required podcast, episode 27. The shownotes are below: Released: December 2, 2014      By: James In CTIR Interview 27: Stephan Kinsella (Intellectual Property), I interview Stephan Kinsella about intellectual property. Specifically, we discuss copyright, trademark, patent, and […]

Balancing Intellectual Property Rights and Civil Liberties: A Libertarian Perspective [Transcript]

Below is an unedited (raw) transcript of my Yale speech “Balancing Intellectual Property Rights and Civil Liberties: A Libertarian Perspective,” available at KOL151. *** Thanks a lot. And since we have a cozy group, I may sit if you guys don’t mind. I’ve never given a presentation sitting down except at home doing a podcast or […]

Do Business Without Intellectual Property (Liberty.me, 2014)

My monograph Do Business Without Intellectual Property was released by Liberty.me earlier this year. The PDF file is here. I release this material, insofar as legally possible (see Copyright is very sticky!), with a CC0 “no rights reserved” license. The Table of Contents is listed below. A Liberty.met seminar discussion of these topics  is available at “KOL159 | Seminar: “Practical […]

KOL159 | Seminar: “Practical Solutions to the IP Trap”

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 159. This is my seminar, Practical Solutions to the IP Trap, delivered to Liberty.me members on May 19, 2014, based on my monograph Do Business Without Intellectual Property (Liberty.me, 2014). This discussion, moderated by Matt Gilliland, provides an overview of IP and the issues faced by people in their careers and lives […]

Libertarianism After Fifty Years: What Have We Learned? (transcript)

Below is an edited transcript of my speech “Libertarianism After Fifty Years: What Have We Learned?” delivered at the NYC LibertyFest (Brooklyn, NY, October 11, 2014; available at Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 152). The original title was “Libertarianism After Fifty Years: A Reassessment and Reappraisal” but I was allotted only about 15-20 minutes so […]

KOL153 | “The Social Theory of Hoppe: Lecture 1: Property Foundations” (Mises Academy, 2011)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 153. This is the first of 6 lectures of my 2011 Mises Academy course “The Social Theory of Hoppe.” See also my article “Read Hoppe, Then Nothing Is the Same,” Mises Daily (June 10, 2011). The remaining lectures follow in podcast feed. The slides for the first lecture of the Social Theory of […]

KOL152 | NYC LibertyFest: “Libertarianism After Fifty Years: What Have We Learned?”

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 152. This is my speech “Libertarianism After Fifty Years: What Have We Learned?” delivered at the NYC LibertyFest (Brooklyn, NY, October 11, 2014). The original title was “Libertarianism After Fifty Years: A Reassessment and Reappraisal” but I was allotted only about 15-20 minutes so condensed the scope and could only touch briefly on many […]

KOL151 | Yale Speech: Balancing Intellectual Property Rights and Civil Liberties: A Libertarian Perspective

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 151. This is my recent speech “Balancing Intellectual Property Rights and Civil Liberties: A Libertarian Perspective,” presented at Branford College at Yale University, New Haven, CT, Oct. 2, 2014, in a lecture series called “The Politic Presents.” It was held in the beautiful Trumbull Room at Branford Court, where the accompanying picture was taken. The […]

KOL150 | Greening Out Interviews Episode 10

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 150. An interview by the delightful libertarian couple Caity and Dan Greene, from Glasgow, Scotland. We discussed a variety of liberty-related matters, as noted on their show notes for Episode 10: Stephan Kinsella is Founder and Executive Editor of Libertarian Papers, Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF), a member […]

KOL149 | IP And Beyond With Stephan Kinsella – Non-Aggression Podcast

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 149. My recent appearance on the Non-Aggression Podcast with host Mike Cuneo, aka 412 Libertarian. We talked about IP, Georgism, Stefan Molyneux’s use of the DMCA to do a copyright takedown of a critic on youtube, whether Hitler is responsible for the holocaust, and the like. From his show notes: […]