Episode Details

Get ready for some hardcore Libertarian nerd-talk, as Corinna goes head-to-head with Stephan Kinsella, Libertarianism’s foremost critic of copyright and patents and author of Against Intellectual Property. Thrill to dazzling theories of labor vs. action, restrictive covenants, negative easements, burdened estates, nuisances, limitations, consent, redistribution of rights, triangular intervention, property, scarcity, value, allocation of contestable resources, conflict, trade secrets, the Patent Bargain, disclosure, distortion, abolishing the FDA…wait, what? By the end of the episode, Corinna suffers a long-overdue crisis of faith. SUCCESS!

Related links:

• Stephan Kinsella, Against Intellectual Property


• C4SIF.org Resources http://c4sif.org/resources/


• Intellectual Property Rights as Negative Servitudes


• Karl Fogel: The Surprising History of Copyright and The Promise of a Post-Copyright World and https://youtu.be/mhBpI13dxkI


• Boldrin & Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly


• “Conversation with an author about copyright and publishing in a free society” (Harry Potter example)


• “Intellectual Property” as an umbrella term and as propaganda: a reply to Richard Stallman


• A Selection of Kinsella’s Best Articles and Speeches on IP