Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 452.

I was asked recently to guest lecture for a course taught to some mechanical engineering students at Colorado University Boulder (EMEN 4100: Engineering Economics) by the lecturer, David Assad. Assad covers some ethics related matters in the latter part of the course and asked me to talk generally about ethics and related matters. I discussed ethics, morality, politics, and science. I discussed ethics and its relationship to science and politics, and discussed about what science is, the types of sciences, ethics and ethical theories and the relationship to specialized ethics and morality in general, and its relationship to political ethics and political philosophy. I then discussed libertarianism in general, the nature and function of property rights, and then explained how the intellectual property issue can be addressed based on the libertarian and private law perspective. The references and notes I gave the class are embedded in the slides and reproduced below.

https://youtu.be/M3SzBjb5zdA

Slides here (ppt) and streamed below:

Further reading/references

IP Issues

Part IV of Stephan Kinsella, Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023; https://stephankinsella.com/lffs/)

You Can’t Own Ideas: Essays on Intellectual Property (Papinian Press, 2023)

The Anti-IP Reader: Free Market Critiques of Intellectual Property (Papinian Press, 2023)

Other resources at https://c4sif.org/resources

“Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics” (Mises Academy, 2011; 6 lectures)

concise argument against IP law: “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,”

KOL037 | Locke’s Big Mistake: How the Labor Theory of Property Ruined Political Theory

Intellectual Property Discussion with Mark Skousen

“The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright” and “Legal Scholars: Thumbs Down on Patent and Copyright,” in Kinsella, You Can’t Own Ideas

on the assumption that any additional innovation and creative works incentivized by the IP system are worth more to society than those lost or suppressed due to these same laws: “There’s No Such Thing as a Free Patent,” in  You Can’t Own Ideas

on the assumption that even if IP law gives rise to a net gain to society in terms of extra innovation, invention, and creative works, that this net gain is greater than other costs of the IP system: “There’s No Such Thing as a Free Patent,” in You Can’t Own Ideas

Intellectual Property Rights as Negative Servitudes

“Copyright is Unconstitutional”

IP tutorials (on IP law, not policy)

KOL409 | IP Law Tutorial, Part 1: Patent Law

KOL411 | IP Law Tutorial, Part 2: Copyright Law

KOL412 | IP Law Tutorial, Part 3: Trademark, Trade Secret, and Other

Further Reading: Libertarianism

Stephan Kinsella, Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023; https://stephankinsella.com/lffs/)

Kinsella, The Greatest Libertarian Books, https://stephankinsella.com/lffs/

“Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society” (Mises Academy, 2011; 6 lectures)  https://stephankinsella.com/kinsella-on-liberty-podcast/

Other

Ludwig von Mises, Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science

Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Economic Science and the Austrian Method, A Theory of Socialism & Capitalism, Economics & Ethics of Private Property, The Great Fiction (https://hanshoppe.com/publications/)

Randy E. Barnett, “Of Chickens and Eggs—The Compatibility of Moral Rights and Consequentialist Analyses,” Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 12 (1989): 611–36, and idem, “Introduction: Liberty vs. License,” in The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law, 2d ed. (Oxford, 2014)

Hoppe on Property Rights in Physical Integrity vs Value (to invasion of the physical integrity of their property boundaries)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 451.

My recent appearance on The Rational Egoist. (Spotify)

Shownotes:

Debating the Nature of Rights with Stephan Kinsella

In this episode of The Rational Egoist, host Michael Liebowitz engages in a stimulating debate with libertarian writer and patent attorney Stephan Kinsella on the nature of rights.

Drawing from his book Legal Foundations of a Free Society and his extensive work on legal and political theory, Kinsella offers his perspective on the origins, scope, and application of individual rights.

Together, they examine differing philosophical interpretations and discuss how rights function in a free society.

This thought-provoking conversation invites listeners to question and refine their understanding of one of the most fundamental concepts in political philosophy.

https://youtu.be/_rvJ2H8r5Z8?si=890cUejq8lRh4ISj

https://youtu.be/LPCg8NEPoNg?si=4djdwXxpR2CYSVA2

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 450.

My discussion/interview by Matthew Sands of the Nations of Sanity project as part of his “Together Strong” debate series.

https://youtu.be/igflMs3VJPM?si=3MBYzu9cmeth4LlH

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 449.

My discussion/interview by Matthew Sands of the Nations of Sanity project as part of his “Together Strong” debate series.

https://youtu.be/igflMs3VJPM?si=3MBYzu9cmeth4LlH

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 449.

I was interviewed by Logan Hertz, of Hazeltine LLC, about attempts by the Nelson Nash Institute, they of the poorly-named "Infinite Banking" concept, to use trademark to bully competitors. I discuss the general problem with IP and then apply it to trademark, and provide suggestions as to more "ethical" ways of using trademark and IP in an IP-world. See also Logan's LinkedIn post.

For more, see: Do Business Without Intellectual Property.

https://youtu.be/EezJNq-FXQc?si=zPY2QdgLqeqqnf0-

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 448.

This is my discussion with European patent attorney David Pearce, of the Tufty the Cat European IP blog (twitter). He and I were co-founders and members of the Advisory Council for the Open Crypto Alliance (2020–22). We discuss Craig Wright, nChain and bitcoin related patents, and so on (see video below).

https://youtu.be/3B1R_aTdQ0I

https://youtu.be/AJmPrbQ4NQU?si=yAGKMU590r6Vac4i

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 447.

This is from the show "Axioms of Liberty," which has another episode about my IP writing. This time, it's a reading of "Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society."

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 446.

This is from the show "Axioms of Liberty," which has another episode about my IP writing. This time, it's a reading of "Intellectual Property and Libertarianism."

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 445.

The show "Axioms of Liberty" has an episode about my IP writing, including readings of three early pieces: First, one of my earliest writings, Stephan Kinsella, "Letter on Intellectual Property Rights," IOS Journal 5, no. 2 (June 1995), pp. 12-13, and followed by David Kelley's response. Next, “Is Intellectual Property Legitimate?”, first published in the Pennsylvania Bar Association Intellectual Property Newsletter 1 (Winter 1998): 3 and republished in the Federalist Society’s Intellectual Property Practice Group Newsletter, vol. 3, Issue 3 (Winter 2000). And finally, "In Defense of Napster and Against the Second Homesteading Rule," LewRockwell.com (Sept. 4, 2000). I am not sure who this podcaster is, but he has my gratitude.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 444.

I had forgotten about this conversation with "AlexAnarcho" back in May 2024. Here it is.

Property rights, ideas & fungibility w/ Stephan Kinsella released 05/02/2024

Stephan Kinsella is a pioneer on the topic of intellectual property (IP). His arguments against IP also carry over to the cyberspace. Can you even "own" Bitcoin? After all, it is just a number on an elliptic curve...