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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 344.

This is my appearance with Adam Terrell of the Theocracy podcast: 022 Copyrights Are Unlawful with Stephan Kinsella (recorded May 7, 2021). From his shownotes:

Now, some of you know I have a background in media production. And I have gotten royalty checks and benefitted from a copyright “tradition” (I don’t call it law) on multiple occasions, and I have family who have had their entire livelihoods supported by it. So how can I say in the title that “Copyrights Are Unlawful?” Stephan Kinsella is my guest today. I found him through Tom Woods’s podcast years back, and I’ve run in to his talks at Mises University online several times. He’s a patent attorney who has helped me think through these issues practically relating to intellectual property and why it doesn’t exist. I believe there is a Bible verse I can point to as well in Exodus, but we’ll get to that. We get in to some less-than-settled issues as well.

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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 343.

This is an IP and libertarianism Q&A. It was originally supposed to be a debate with an intellectual property attorney on IP but after challenging me, she bowed out. I went live at the appointed time anyway and discussed it briefly, and fielded questions from those that tuned in. We started off in Youtube live stream and because it sucks, I switched over to a Zoom call 34 minutes in so others could ask questions and participate (next time I’ll use Zoom only).

This started when someone on Twitter recommended my Against Intellectual Property:

How do you take down big tech and big pharma?

Repeal all IP laws.

You'll see insulin included in Happy Meals.

— Libertarian Party of Kentucky (@lpky) June 10, 2021

To which one @libertascoco responded with this snipe:

https://twitter.com/libertascoco/status/1402820244851154945

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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 342.

The Bitcoin2021 audience

Thanks to the good offices of my friend Vijay Boyapati, author of the new book-length version of The Bullish Case for Bitcoin, the organizers of bitcoin2021 in Miami, June 4-5 2021, graciously gave me two minutes to make an announcement about the Open Crypto Alliance (@OpenCryptoX) and its work, on Saturday June 5. I was introduced by Charlie Shrem.

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Note (4/20/22): The video above was taken down by a copyright strike from Bitcoin Magazine (ironically). They have promised to restore it, but in the meantime, here is the backup:

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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 341.

This was a webinar I did for an Argentinian audience for ESEADE May 26, 2021. The topic was formally “Should We Release Patents on Vaccines” (“¿Hay que liberar las patentes sobre las vacunas?“). In this talk, I briefly provide an overview of the nature of property rights and the principled case against IP, then apply it to vaccines, and took questions from the audience.

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[Update: See also FDA and Patent Reform: A Modest Proposal; “Patents, Pharma, Government: The Unholy Alliance,” Brownstone Institute (April 1, 2024), Kinsella, “Are Patents Needed to Make Up for FDA Kneecapping?” (July 2, 2011).]

Transcript and Grok DETAILED summary below.

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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 340.

“Watch as Benjamin Politics, Bleu Politics and Mencius Kuang interview well renowned economist Stephan Kinsella” (Jan. 12, 2021)

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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 339.

This is an audio version of my Foreword to Chase Rachels’ A Spontaneous Order, narrated by Graham Wright.

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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 338.

Update: See also KOL463 | Contracts, Usury, Fractional-Reserve Banking with André Simoni  and this Grok analysis of various problems with smart contracts including the fact that most loans are unsecured.

From Human Action Podcast Ep. 308, “Rothbard’s The Ethics of Liberty with Stephan Kinsella” (May 27, 2021), with Jeff Deist, discussing Rothbard’s Ethics of Liberty, chapters 9, 13, 19, et pass. (PDF). [continue reading…]

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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 190-2. Also podcast as PFP145.

In 2015 I delivered this talk: “On Life without Patents and Copyright: Or, Who Would Pick The Cotton?” at the Property and Freedom Society, 10th Annual Meeting, Bodrum, Turkey (Sep. 13, 2015), which is here: KOL190 | On Life without Patents and Copyright: Or, But Who Would Pick the Cotton? (PFS 2015).

This is the subsequent panel discussion with Q&A from the speakers for that day, to-wit: Hans-Hermann Hoppe, David Dürr, Stephan Kinsella, Frank van Dun, Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple).

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Panel Discussion, Q&A: Hoppe, Dürr, Kinsella, van Dun, Daniels (PFS 2015)

by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, David Dürr, Stephan Kinsella, Frank van Dun, Anthony Daniels

Property and Freedom Society, 10th Annual Meeting

Bodrum, Turkey (Sep. 13, 2015)

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HANS-HERMANN HOPPE: Somebody approached me with a wish – it was a question, if email addresses would like to be shared.  I did not want to do anything without the people’s permission, so there will be a list at the front desk where you can maybe – the name list of all the participants where you can either write your email address in there or not if you prefer not to make your email address known to others.  So whoever is interested, please take advantage of the opportunity, and David Durr wanted to make a brief announcement too.  Give the microphone. [continue reading…]

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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 337 (May 23, 2021).This is my appearance on Join the Wasabikas: A Bitcoin Privacy Podcast, Ep. 15.0, with Max Hillebrand.

Update: See also thoughts on the nature of money, the barter problems solves, etc., in:

• KOL402 | Austrian Economics Discord Conference: Inflation: Its Causes, Effects, Parallels and Death in a Bitcoin World
• Am I a Bitcoin Maximalist?

On the issue if why money needs only solve these problems, and why the idea of smart contracts as one of the useful features of functions of an advanced money is confused, see:

• my facebook post  https://www.facebook.com/nskinsella/posts/10158404058053181;
• comments on this in LIBERTARIAN ANSWER MAN: Smart Contracts 
• and KOL401 | Sazmining Twitter Space: Bitcoin & Property Rights.

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From the shownotes:

Stephan Kinsella is an incredible scholar of the Austrian school of praxeology, his major contribution is the advancement of the arguments in favor of property of scarce goods, and against intellectual property of non-scarce goods. He applies his in depth wisdom to how Bitcoin can be explained in this view.

We discussed a variety of topics related to bitcoin, property rights, Austrian economics, and so on. Shownotes for the full episode:

Stephan Kinsella is an incredible scholar of the Austrian school of praxeology, his major contribution is the advancement of the arguments in favor of property of scarce goods, and against intellectual property of non-scarce goods. He applies his in depth wisdom to how Bitcoin can be explained in this view.
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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 336.

From April 22, 2021. “Here I interview the great Stephan Kinsella and discuss whether or not patents and intellectual property are actually a good thing. We get into philosophy, practical advice, and more.”

Related links:

• C4SIF.org Resources
• A Selection of my Best Articles and Speeches on IP
• Do Business Without Intellectual Property

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Michael Malice has an excellent new compendium out, The Anarchist Handbook, excerpting key writings of a number of important anarchist thinkers. They are, in order:

• Peter Kropotkin
• William Godwin
• Leo Tolstoy
• Max Stirner
• Alexander Berkman
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• Voltairine de Cleyre
• Herbert Spencer
• Emma Goldman
• Josiah Warren
• Charles Robert Plunkett
• Mikhail Bakunin
• Linda and Morris Tannehill
• Lysander Spooner
• David Friedman
• Johann Most
• Murray Rothbard
• Louis Lingg
• John Hasnas
• Benjamin R. Tucker
• Michael Malice

His selections are of course not comprehensive, but while going over his list a few other important anarchist thinkers occurred to me who are not included. I offer this eclectic list as a supplement for those looking for further readings along the lines of Malice’s collection. My list is also not comprehensive; it is mostly some of my personal favorites or influences. Readers are invited to submit other possible important works I have missed.

Update: Keith Knight’s recent The Voluntaryist Handbook (2022) actually includes some of the works that I suggest below, plus many others.
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