Kinsella On Liberty

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 388. Other posts on Christianity and IP. I was a guest on Cantus Firmus, with host Cody Cook (episode released July 8, 2022; recorded July 7, 2022). We discussed IP etc. Recently re-podcast as Libertarian Christian Podcast Ep. 423. Grok shownotes and transcript below. From his shownotes: Stephan Kinsella was my guest to talk about “intellectual property,” the c...

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 abou...

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 mo...

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 Ernes...

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 Plan...

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 Se...

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. h...

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 a...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 378. [Note: I mistakenly posted this as a blog post instead of a podcast entry on March 28, 2022; please see comments on the original post here.] 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 secti...

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...

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. Transcript below. 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 | Lock...

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: I...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 373. This is an audiobook version of my Against Intellectual Property. Narrated by RetroGames HQ. An earlier version is here: KOL008 | Against Intellectual Property (audiobook). Others audio versions of my work at https://stephankinsella.com/media/#audio-books. Youtube playlist; first Youtube: https://youtu.be/JCabAGM-e_s

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 372. Matthew Sands of the Nation of Sanity project (http://www.nationsofsanity.com/), which aims to promote the Non-Aggression Principle as a universal peace agreement, and I discussed various matters of libertarian legal theory, including the Rothbard-Evers title-transfer theory of contract versus contract as "binding promises" and the problem with the idea of...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 371. This is my presentation (audio only) at the Austrian Economics Discord Conference: “The Enduring Importance of the Austrian School,” Austrian Economics Discord Server (Jan. 8–9, 2022). My presentation was “Law: Decentralized and Centralized" (Jan. 8, 2022). Other speakers included: - Jeff Deist - Walter Block - Peter Klein - Per Bylund - Patrick Newman - J...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 370. This is my appearance in an "Ask Me Anything" for the Lib-Right League Discord Server, with host Logan. Recorded Jan. 6, 2022. We discussed a variety of topics. My youtube: Their youtube:  

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 369. Whereupon I do the rare original episode. In November I  debated Richard Epstein in New York, at the Soho Forum, on intellectual property (patent and copyright). My friend Greg Morin (website; Twitter; Mises) accompanied me and we had a great time in NYC. In this episode, Greg and I do a post-mortem about the debate and touch on IP topics I didn't have tim...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 368. This is my appearance on Robert Breedlove's What Is Money podcast, Ep. WiM099 (Youtube channel). We discussed legislation vs. (private) law—Centralized Law vs Decentralized Law, or as Hoppe refers to legislation, "democratic law-making". From Robert's Episode notes: "Stephan Kinsella joins me to discuss the nature of centralized law legislated by fiat in c...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 367. I appeared on Patrick Smith's Disenthrall channel (Disenthrall Youtube channel) to discuss and rebut—to fisk, really—an article by one "Strangerous Thoughts" from 2010 criticizing my IP abolitionism—or my "intellectual communism," as he called it. The main article is: The economic principles of intellectual property and the fallacies of intellectual commun...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 366. This is my appearance on the Repeal the 20th Century podcast (Youtube channel). We discussed my IP debate at the Soho Forum (see KOL364 | Soho Forum Debate vs. Richard Epstein: Patent and Copyright Law Should Be Abolished and KOL369 | Soho Forum IP Debate Post-Mortem with Greg Morin), the basic case against IP (both natural rights/Lockean and utilitarian),...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 365. My friend Walter Block, economics professor at Loyola University-New Orleans, asked me to give a guest lecture today (Dec. 8, 2021) for his Law and Economics course, on the topics of intellectual property. This is it. Transcript below. Youtube: https://youtu.be/PclRRN6podw TRANSCRIPT "Intellectual Property: Law and Economics: Guest Lecture Walter Block’s L...

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 364. Email to Richard Epstein: Tension Between Takings Framework and IP Views This is my Soho Forum debate held Nov. 15, 2021, in Manhattan, against professor Richard Epstein, moderated by Gene Epstein. I defended the resolution "all patent and copyright law should be abolished" and Professor Epstein opposed it. Oxford debate rules applied which meant that whoe...