Jeffrey Tucker: Stephan Kinsella, it’s a pleasure to have you here today. Welcome. Stephan Kinsella: Thank you. It’s good to be here. Tucker: We’re going to talk about your class for the Mises Academy, on intellectual property. Kinsella: Yes, I’m looking forward to it. We’ve been planning it for quite a while, as you know. I think the first course
In previous decades libertarians viewed intellectual property as a boring and technical area of the law, the province of legal specialists. They also assumed it to be a legitimate, if arcane, type of property in a capitalist, free-market society. After all, it’s in the Constitution, and Ayn Rand blessed it. But we don’t ignore it anymore, and we
[The Freeman , June 2011] Advocates of free-market capitalism commonly believe in the legitimacy of intellectual property (IP) because IP rights are thought to be important to a system of private property. But are they? There are good reasons to think that IP is not actually property — that it is actually antithetical to a private-property,
It’s increasingly recognized that our current patent system is “broken.” Billions are paid in ransom to patent aggressors. Patent lawyers are enriched. Patent trolls have emerged. Competitors, like Android smartphones and tablets, are shut down or delayed by entrenched patent oligopolists. While some confused souls argue that patents create jobs
Como muchos libertarios, inicialmente asumí que la propiedad intelectual (P.I.) era un tipo legítimo de derecho de propiedad. Pero yo tenía mis dudas desde el principio: había algo demasiado utilitario y orientado a los resultados en el caso de Rand, supuestamente basado en principios, para la propiedad intelectual, y algo demasiado artificial en
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Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.