Kinsella On Liberty

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 394. This is my appearance on Robert Breedlove’s What Is Money podcast, Ep. WiM216 (Youtube channel). This is Ep. 2 of the "Stephan Kinsella Series." For Ep. 1, see KOL391 | Hoppe’s A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, Ep. 1 with Robert Breedlove, of the “What is Money” Show. From Robert’s Episode notes: “Stephan Kinsella is an American intellectual property lawyer, author, and deontological anarcho-capitalist. He joins me for an in-depth conversation about the book "A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics, and Ethics" by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.” Youtube: https://youtu.be/B2a5MnWb0RU

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 393. After a Twitter spat with Las Vegas Libertarian about IP (see here and here), I offered to have a discussion with him. I didn't make much headway, but it was a fun, robust discussion. Oh well. I tried. Related: “The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (July 28, 2010) Yet another Randian recants on IP (Feb. 1, 2012) An Objectivist Recants on IP (Dec. 4, 2009) Letter from a UK Grad Student Does Cato’s New Objectivist CEO John Allison Presage Retrogression on IP? Timothy Sandefur, “A Critique of Ayn Rand’s Theory of Intellectual Property Rights,” Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 9, no. 1 (Fall 2007): 139–61 Against Intellectual Property After Twenty Years: Looking Back and Looking Forward https://youtu.be/k7ebUpmAWHc

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 392. I was asked to make a guest appearance on SwanBitcoin's Café Bitcoin Tuesday today, with host Alex, where we discussed ownership of bitcoin, property rights, bitcoin maximalism, money vs. language, bitcoin and free speech, and related matters. It was also posted on their podcast feed (iTunes; Spotify; google) and I include here my segment. Related: KOL274 | Nobody Owns Bitcoin (PFS 2019) KOL085 | The History, Meaning, and Future of Legal Tender (Crypto-Currency Conference, Atlanta, 2013) Transcript: “You Don’t Own Bitcoin—Property Rights, Praxeology and the Foundations of Private Law,” with Max Hillebrand (May 23, 2021) KOL386 | Toward Anarchy with Michael Storm: IP, Bitcoin, NFTs, Digital Ownership KOL383 | Bitcoin at PorcFest: Patent Trolls, Bitcoin Ownership, the Mises Caucus and the Reno Reset Libertarian Answer Man: Self-ownership for slaves and Crusoe; and Yiannopoulos on Accurate Analysis and the term “Property”; Mises distinguishing between jur

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 390. In the second half of a discussion on Disenthrall (for Part I, see KOL389 | Disenthrall: With Patrick Smith and Larken Rose the Morality of Copyright “Piracy”), host Patrick Smith and I discussed recent changes to the Libertarian Party Platform related to aggression and property rights; see Aggression and Property Rights Plank in the Libertarian Party Platform. We also touched on other issues like abandonment of property. Youtube of show: https://youtu.be/5c4-nO40IGo Odysee version of entire show: Related: Property Title Records and Insurance in a Free Society, Mises Blog (Dec. 4, 2010) Homesteading, Abandonment, and Unowned Land in the Civil Law (Mises Blog, 2009) Further Thoughts on Abandonment and Alienability in Contract Theory: Discussions with Jay Lakner Left-Libertarians on Rothbardian Abandonment  A Critique of Mutualist Occupancy How To Think About Property (2019) Libertarian Answer Man: Abandoning Property on your curb for the tras

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 389. I appeared on Patrick Smith's show Disenthrall last night (July 15, 2022), along with Larken Rose, to discuss the morality of piracy of copyrighted content. Larken had posted a video earlier the same day (see below) regarding the HBO series The Anarchists, where he criticized the libertarians who were gleefully pirating the show (downloading unauthorized copies to watch for free) instead of subscribing to HBO to watch it legally. Larken is against copyright but still thinks it's wrong for people to "freeload" like this--he says it's a "poophead" thing todo. I disagree that it's wrong and mentioned this in a series of Tweets. At one point I suggested that not only is piracy and downloading not wrong, but you could make a case that a libertarian activist author who paywalls his books and doens't put a free PDF of it online is being a jerk, and Larken said something like "I take back my previous comment that you are not a commie!" But when I complimented Keith Knight f

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 388. I was a guest on Cantus Firmus, with host Cody Cook (episode released July 8, 2022; recorded July 7, 2022) . We discussed IP etc. From his shownotes: Stephan Kinsella was my guest to talk about “intellectual property,” the concept that an individual’s ideas belong to them and should be protected from free use by others through law. Stephan is a patent attorney and libertarian writer in Houston whose book Against Intellectual Property is the seminal writing on this subject. We discussed why intellectual property is not really property, why it places an undue burden on society, and how it inhibits the free exchange of culture and ideas. He can be found at www.stephankinsella.com, at the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, and on Twitter @NSKinsella Resources mentioned in the podcast: Stephan Kinsella’s Against Intellectual Property – Amazon and Free from the Mises Institute Stephan’s Soho forum debate Abolish Copyrights and Patents? RiP: A Remix Manifes

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 387. This is a classic debate on intellectual property between Wendy McElroy and J. Neil Schulman† at the Libertarian Supper Club in Westwood (Los Angeles), California, in 1983. McElroy takes the anti-IP side and Schulman argues for IP. I don't appear in this episode but I thought my listeners might find it of interest. https://youtu.be/-_Nyaav6Js0 I wrote about this on Mises Daily, as “The Great IP Debate of 1983,” Mises Daily (July 18, 2011), which concerns the then recently-found audio of that debate, which was put up as a Mises podcast and is now also hosted at Mises.org. It's a fascinating listen. As the Mises blurb about it reads, "In this wonderful debate, we find the whole of the theoretical apparatus of the anti-IP case presented with precision and eloquence." This was near the beginning of the modern libertarian anti-IP movement, pioneered by McElroy and Sam Konkin (see references below). Related (by me unless noted otherwise): McElroy: “On the Subject of

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 386. I was a guest on Toward Anarchy with host Michael Storm on July 3, 2022. His shownotes (Youtube channel): Anarchist, Author, Lawyer, Electrical Engineer, Stephan Kinsella discusses the Economics and Morality of Intellectual Property with me. We'll get into the value, subjective and objective, of Crypto-Currencies, NFTs and other Digital things. Find out more about Stephan and dive into the large body of work he has from books to audio and video on topics from the law to economics to social issues and of course Intellectual Property at StephanKinsella.com. Continue your trip down the Kinsella information highway at Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom where you can find a growing collection of work aimed at proving the government impedes innovation and creativity with laws and taxes and regulations and all manner of interventions into our personal and economic lives. Related: A Selection of my Best Articles and Speeches on IP Aggression and Property Right

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 385. This is an audio version of my article "Goods, Scarce and Nonscarce" (with Jeffrey A. Tucker), Mises Daily (Aug. 25, 2010). Narrated by Bob Reilly. N.b.: the narrator mispronounces some words, e.g. he pronounces Menger as "Minn-jer" and causally as "casually". https://youtu.be/jINbQrRq-g0

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 384. My appearance on Ernie Hancock's show at PorcFest 2022, recorded June 23, 2022. Episode. Related: KOL307 | Ernie Hancock Freedom’s Phoenix on IP in the Internet Age KOL272 | Ernie Hancock Freedom’s Phoenix on Reputation Rights, Defamation, IP KOL229 | Ernie Hancock Show: IP Debate with Alan Korwin KOL133 | IP Bonanza on Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock KOL089 | Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock radio: Intellectual Property, L. Neil Smith KOL060 | Guest on Ernest Hancock’s Declare Your Independence radio show: intellectual property and libertarianism (2010)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 383. I was an impromptu guest at the FreeTalkLive tent at PorcFest 2022 yesterday (June 23, 2022), with hosts Patrick Motorist and Tone Vays, discussing the Open Crypto Foundation, the Reno Reset, and related matters. Related: KOL274 | Nobody Owns Bitcoin (PFS 2019) https://youtu.be/v1E4i3od_T4?t=1954  

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 382. I was an impromptu guest at the FreeTalkLive tent at PorcFest 2022 today (June 23, 2022), with host Mark Edge (and Aria) discussing corporations and limited liability, and also the recent "Reno Reset" at the Libertarian Party's 2022 Convention in Reno. Related: Corporate Personhood, Limited Liability, and Double Taxation Aggression and Property Rights Plank in the Libertarian Party Platform

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 381. This is my discussion with Eric John on Twitter Spaces, on June 18, 2022, about intellectual property—its genesis, common fallacies and misunderstandings, the labor theory of property, libertarian "creationism," and so on. We discussed ownership of information and touched briefly on ownership of bitcoin. Related: Against Intellectual Property (including Selected Supplementary Material) ——, “Against Intellectual Property After Twenty Years: Looking Back and Looking Forward” KOL274 | Nobody Owns Bitcoin (PFS 2019)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 380. Tom Jump, of the TJump Youtube channel, had me on to discuss anarcho-capitalism and related issues. I was not familiar with him or what position he would be coming from; turns out he's a self-professed "centrist liberal" but was very intelligent, and surprisingly civil despite espousing some views completely contrary to libertarianism and my own beliefs. https://youtu.be/wRAJJC3TleI

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 379. This is my umpteenth appearance on the Tom Woods show: from Ep. 2145 Does Intellectual Property Exist? From his shownotes: Is it possible that we’ve been snookered into believing in a nonsensical concept? Is it possible to “own” an idea? Stephan Kinsella walks us through copyright, patent, trademarks, and trade secrets from a libertarian perspective, and also considers the utilitarian arguments for intellectual property. https://youtu.be/htD61sX9LkM Related: Against Intellectual Property “Against Intellectual Property After Twenty Years: Looking Back and Looking Forward" Against Intellectual Monopoly, by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine; click here for a PDF A Selection of my Best Articles and Speeches on IP “Legal Scholars: Thumbs Down on Patent and Copyright” “The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright” “Innovations that Thrive without IP” “Examples of Ways Content Creators Can Profit Without Intellectual Property” Do Busine

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 378. I had some exchanges with Voice of Reason in the comments section for a Mises.org article on IP a few weeks ago about intellectual property so we decided to have a discussion. Here it is. FWIW. (See the comments section of the Mises.org article titled Why Intellectual Property Isn't Necessary to Reward Innovation.) If anyone has links to the original thread send them on and I will include them. https://youtu.be/Rmeuh3L5NqU

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 377. I appeared last night (March. 15, 2022) on NWJ as we are considering a possible debate between me and David Friedman on the foundations of libertarianism. The original notion suggested was deontology vs. consequentialism but as I was not sure this is appropriate, we had a discussion about this. Along the way we discussed many other topics. Not sure if the debate will take place or makes sense, but this discussion was fun. https://youtu.be/C8JAZq_QYuo

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 376. This is my appearance on Unorthodox Libertarian Theology, with host Rajat Sirkanungo. We discussed a variety of issues. My copy: https://youtu.be/0Qv-ocKUkec His copy: https://youtu.be/CqfueRgLNNQ

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 375. This is my appearance on Ep.55 of Mentally Unscripted. Recorded Feb. 8, 2022; released Feb. 10, 2022. https://youtu.be/8SrUo79eiLk Related links: Examples of Ways Content Creators Can Profit Without Intellectual Property The Creator-Endorsed Mark as an Alternative to Copyright Do Business Without Intellectual Property (PDF) KOL 037 | Locke’s Big Mistake: How the Labor Theory of Property Ruined Political Theory Locke, Smith, Marx; the Labor Theory of Property and the Labor Theory of Value; and Rothbard, Gordon, and Intellectual Property Legal Scholars: Thumbs Down on Patent and Copyright The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright Libertarian Answer Man: Self-ownership for slaves and Crusoe; and Yiannopoulos on Accurate Analysis and the term “Property” Intellectual Property Rights as Negative Servitudes Where does IP Rank Among the Worst State Laws? Patent vs. Copyright: Which is Worse? On the 3D printing threat to patent la

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 374. This is my appearance on Episode 1 of The Great Fiction Podcast, hosted by PraxBen and JungYin An. Recorded Jan. 3, 2022; released Feb. 4, 2022. This is the fourth or so podcast for which I was the first guest, the others being KOL078 | Lions of Liberty Podcast Inaugural Episode: Intellectual Property, KOL244 | “YOUR WELCOME” with Michael Malice Ep. 001: Intellectual Property, Prostate Cancer, and KOL347 | This Time I’m Curious Ep. 1: The Libertarian Movement, AI Rights, UFOs, Music, Movies, Alcohol. Youtube: https://youtu.be/i5p8wlu2xmQ Original youtube: https://youtu.be/-Mq5czGnhHQ