Resources

Key Sites and Resources

Books and Articles

Kinsella, “The Case Against IP: A Concise Guide“
Kinsella, Against Intellectual Property
Boldrin & Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly
Sheldon Richman, “Patent Nonsense“
Kinsella, The Patent, Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secret Horror Files
Jacob H. Huebert, “The Fight against Intellectual Property“
Tucker, “Ideas, Free and Unfree: A Book Commentary” (commentaries on Boldrin and Levine’s Against Intellectual Monopoly)
Intellectual Property (MisesWiki)
Without Intellectual Property (MisesWiki) (“How would the world look like without Intellectual Property? What are the current success stories and possible alternatives if some or all forms of IP were repealed (or became unenforceable)?”)

Blogposts

Kinsella, “Innovations that Thrive without IP“
—–, “Yet Another Study Finds Patents Do Not Encourage Innovation”
—–, “Funding for Creation and Innovation in an IP-Free World“
—–, “Examples of Ways Content Creators Can Profit Without Intellectual Property“
—–, “The Creator-Endorsed Mark as an Alternative to Copyright“
—–, “What are the Costs of the Patent System?” and Costs of the Patent System Revisited
—–, “$30 Billion Taxfunded Innovation Contracts: The ‘Progressive-Libertarian’ Solution”
—–, “Are Patents “Monopolies”?“
—–, The Origins of Libertarian IP Abolitionism
—–, The Four Historical Phases of IP Abolitionism
—–, Cordato and Kirzner on Intellectual Property
—–, Hume on Intellectual Property and the Problematic “Labor” Metaphor
—–, Locke on IP; Mises, Rothbard, and Rand on Creation, Production, and “Rearranging”
—–, Locke, Smith, Marx and the Labor Theory of Value
—–, Libertarian Creationism
—–, Rand on IP, Owning “Values”, and “Rearrangement Rights”
—–, this comment to “Trademark and Fraud”
—–, Elaborations on Randian IP
—–, Objectivists on IP
—–, Hoppe on Intellectual Property
—–, State Antitrust (anti-monopoly) law versus state IP (pro-monopoly) law
—–, Copyright is very sticky!
—–, Masnick on the Horrible PROTECT IP Act: The Coming IPolice State
—–, Leveraging IP
—–, The Evil of Patenting Food and Seeds

Publications by C4SIF Advisory Board Members

Michele Boldrin

“Does Intellectual Monopoly Help Innovation” (with Levine)
Against Intellectual Monopoly (with Levine)
“IER Lawrence Klein Lecture: The Case Against Intellectual Monopoly,” International Economic Review, 45: 327-350 (2004) (with Levine)
“What’s Intellectual Property Good for?,” Revue Economique, forthcoming 2011 (with Levine)

Julio Cole

“Patents and Copyrights: Do the Benefits Exceed the Costs?”
“Would the Absence of Copyright Laws Significantly Affect the Quality and Quantity of Literary Output?“
Propiedad Intelectual: Comentarios sobre Algunas Tendencias Recientes ["Intellectual Property: Comments on Some Recent Trends"]
Review of Patent Failure by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer

Karl Fogel

The Promise of a Post-Copyright World
What Is Free Software?
QuestionCopyright.org — Introduction and FAQ

Stephan Kinsella

My IP publications, including:
Against Intellectual Property (comprehensive libertarian case against IP)
“Why Intellectual Property is not Genuine Property,” edited transcript of speech delivered at 3^rd Adam Smith Forum, Moscow, Russia (Nov. 12, 2011)
“The Great IP Debate of 1983,” Mises Daily (July 18, 2011)
“How to Slow Economic Progress”
“Rethinking IP”
“Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright”
“Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property: or, How Libertarians Went Wrong“
“Goods, Scarce and Nonscarce” (with Tucker)
“The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism”
“Reducing the Cost of IP Law”
“Intellectual Property and Libertarianism”
“Radical Patent Reform Is Not on the Way”
“The Case Against IP: A Concise Guide”
In Defense of Napster and Against the Second Homesteading Rule, September 4, 2000, LewRockwell.com
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Patent, Mises Daily (Mar. 7, 2005)

Media

“Intellectual Property and Economic Development,” Mises University 2011 (July 27, 2011)
“Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics,” Mises Academy (Tuesdays, Mar. 22-April 26, 2011) (discussed on the Mises Blog in Study with Kinsella Online and in Rethinking Intellectual Property: Kinsella’s Mises Academy Online Course) (audio and slides)
“Obama’s Patent Reform: Improvement or Continuing Calamity?,” Mises Academy webinar (discussed in my article “Obama’s Patent Reform: Improvement or Continuing Calamity?,” Mises Daily, Sep. 23, 2011) (audio and slides)
“SOPA, Piracy, Censorship and the End of the Internet? Kinsella and Stefan Molyneux on Freedomain Radio” (Dec. 21, 2011)
“Why Intellectual Property is not Genuine Property,” 3^rd Adam Smith Forum, Moscow, Russia (Nov. 12, 2011) (via remote video)
“AVTM + Stephan Kinsella: “Intellectual Property” vs The 4th Amendment,” Guest on Adam vs. the Man (Oct. 25, 2011), discussing Copyright and Neo-Mercantilism
“Property and Science: The Twin Pillars of Prosperity and Civilization–versus Patent and Copyright,” Panelist, Open Science Summit, Mountain View, CA (Oct. 22, 2011)
“IP Debate: John Templeton Foundation’s Big Questions Debate series on Intellectual Property and Wealth Creation,” The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Student Chapter of The Federalist Society (Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, Columbus OH, March 3, 2011)
Panelist, “Intellectual Property Law and Policy,” Symposium: “Plain Meaning in Context: Can Law Survive its Own Language?”, New York University School of Law/Journal of Law and Liberty (February 18, 2011) [video online here]
“Intellectual Freedom and Learning versus Patent and Copyright,” 2010 Students For Liberty Texas Regional Conference, University of Texas, Austin (Nov. 6, 2010) (video; audio; edited transcription).
“How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism,” Mises Institute Supporters’ Summit 2010: “The Economic Recovery: Washington’s Big Lie” (Oct. 9 2010, Auburn Alabama
Speech, “Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property: or, How Libertarians Went Wrong,” 2010 Annual Meeting, Property and Freedom Society (June 6, 2010) [I also participated in a Q&A Discussion Panel featuring "Hoppe, van Dun, DiLorenzo, Kinsella, Daniels, Kealey"- video]
“Freedomain Radio #1616: “Stephan Kinsella on Intellectual Property” (March 15, 2010): “This is a Freedomain Radio book club discussion of one of Stephan’s most popular books: ‘Against Intellectual Property’” (MP3)
“Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” speech presented at Mises University 2009 (July 30, 2009; audio; video); speech podcast on The Lew Rockwell Show, #131, as The Intellectual Property Racket (Aug. 19, 2009) (see also: “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (Nov. 17, 2009); earlier version (without endnotes) published as “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism” [local PDF; Liberty's online version], Liberty vol. 23, no. 11 (Dec. 2009), p. 27 [blog post])
Delivered the Rothbard Memorial Lecture, “The Intellectual Property Quagmire, or, The Perils of Libertarian Creationism” (Powerpoint; Slideshare.net Presentation; PDF version), Austrian Scholars Conference 2008, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn AL, March 13, 2008 [hbard-lecture-asc-2008.ppt">The Intellectual Property Quagmire, or, The Perils of Libertarian Creationism [Audio; Video; Google Video version)]

David Koepsell

“Revising Intellectual Property: Liberating Intellectual Capital,” Innovation, Sustainability, and Development: A New Manifesto
“The Ethical Case Against Intellectual Property” (slides; video)
“A Patent Too Far,” Washington Times (Op-ed with Kenneth Alfano)
How Genes are Like Plutonium (Neither Should Be Patentable)
“Back to Basics: How Technology and the Open Source Movement Can Save Science“

Bertrand Lemennicier

Brevets d’invention, droits de reproduction et propriété intellectuelle

David Levine

“Does Intellectual Monopoly Help Innovation” (with Boldrin)
Against Intellectual Monopoly (with Boldrin)
Intellectual Property: Silly or Sinister?, The Freeman (January/February 2011), vol. 61, no. 1
“IER Lawrence Klein Lecture: The Case Against Intellectual Monopoly,” International Economic Review, 45: 327-350 (2004) (with Levine)
“What’s Intellectual Property Good for?,” Revue Economique, forthcoming 2011 (with Levine)

Roderick Long

Owning Ideas Means Owning People
The Libertarian Case Against Intellectual Property Rights
Thoughtcrime
Bear Becomes Mushroom; Trout Implicated
Comments on Bedirhano?lu and Schaefer

Mike Masnick

Masnick blog archive on TechDirt
“The Case For Patents Harming Innovation“
“High Order Bit: From Content to Conversational Marketing,” 2009 Conversational Marketing Summit (how he took Techdirt from a content site to a conversational marketing platform)

Wendy McElroy

Copyright and Patent in Benjamin Tucker’s periodical Liberty
Contra Copyright, Again
Musical Condoms: Make Mine Whistle “Dixie”