Steve Gillmor’s latest InfoWorld “Ahead of the Curve” column, We the People …, contains some provocative thoughts on the legitimacy of intellectual property–comparing it, in some ways, to Prohibition. IP has outlived any usefulness it once had, the author quoted by Gillmor argues.
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and retired patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and The Universal Principles of Liberty (2025).
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