Interesting article at Strike-the-Root by Lawrence Ludlow, Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Divine Origins of the Free Market, which makes some interesting connections between Dante’s Divine Comedy, the free market, …

From Jeff Tucker at Laissez Faire Today:

Does Innovation Require the Patent Office?
Jeffrey Tucker · May 10, 2013
 Two years ago, I spoke to a gentlemen who had started and sold four companies. He …

From the Insurance Journal, more depressing evidence about the baleful effects of the anti-competitive, anti-property rights fascist patent system:

Patent Claims Causing Firms to Exit Business Lines: Study
May 6, 2013

Patent demands …

From MacRumours:

EU Antitrust Ruling Says Google Abusing Patent Position in German Lawsuit Against Apple
Monday May 6, 2013 7:01 am PDT by Eric Slivka
The New York Times reports that Google and its Motorola …

Great find by David Koepsell: A book published in 1869, Recent Discussions on the Abolition of Patents for Inventions in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands: Evidence, Speeches, and …

Interesting post from NPR about CERN’s decision in 1993 not to patent the basic protocol of the world-wide web. If they had not done this who knows what would have …

As reported by ars technica, Fox is using federal copyright law and the DMCA process to bully author Cory Doctorow. His novel Homeland has the same title as the Fox …

From QuestionCopyright.org, a great interview with Nina Paley. For some background on problems Paley alludes to re CC0, see my post Copyright is very sticky!.

Make Art, Not Law.
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2013-04-19 …

Good news, but of course, it misses the fundamental problem which is the patent itself. The problem is not low quality patents or software patents or “abuse” of patents. Even …

From Freedom to Tinker, on the “liberal” IP fascist Scott Turow:

Copyrights, Fundamental Rights, and the Constitution
APRIL 22, 2013 BY ANNEMARIE BRIDY 9 COMMENTS

There was a lot to take issue with in Scott Turow’s …

My monograph Against Intellectual Property is now available in a French translation, as Contre la propriété intellectuelle Écrit (PDF). It was translated by Xavier Gillard. My work has now been translated into fourteen other …

Sad, especially given that Asia was traditionally better on copyright than the West has been (well, at least in China: “To Steal a Book is an Elegant Offense” —Chinese saying).
From Crunchyroll.com:

Tokyo …

My comment on Thoughts on the Great IP Debate:
“The argument against IP does not rest on being anarchist or even anti-legislation. It simply rests on the assumption that property rights in …

This is a transcription of my speech Locke’s Big Mistake: How the Labor Theory of Property Ruined Political Theory. I have cleaned up a few things and added a few links …

From the site for the C4SIF’s journal Libertarian Papers:

Libertarian Papers Ranked “A” by Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)/Australian Research Council (ARC)

I was informed recently by that Libertarian Papers has received …

Maria Fredenslund, the CEO of the Danish CopyrightAlliance, in a debate in which she argues for increased control of the Internet in the name of copyright, proclaims that “control is …

As I note in my What Libertarianism Is, a property right is simply the legally recognized exclusive right to control a scarce resource. The question is always: who owns a particular, potentially …

I received a query about IP from Aaron Easler, a student at Grove City College who had taken a recent course “Economics of Intellectual Property,” taught by my friend Jeff …

From the Washington Times:

Monsanto, steaks, and chefs: Intellectual property and foodSunday, April 7, 2013 - The Business of Living by Joseph S. Diedrich

RELATED COLUMNS

Even libertarians wrong on Monsanto Protection Act
Dislike: Facebook Sued for …

Note: The complete Libertarian Forum (1969-85) is available in epub and PDF.
A great piece by Rothbard: “High Tech ‘Crime’: A Call for Papers,” from the July–August, 1983 issue. My previous version …

From my Kinsella on Liberty podcast:

KOL 038 | Debate with Robert Wenzel on Intellectual Property
by STEPHAN KINSELLA on APRIL 1, 2013
in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY,KINSELLA ON LIBERTY PODCAST,LIBERTARIANISM

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 038.
Blogger Robert Wenzel and …

This is a nice, concise piece by Predrag Rajsic, posted at Mises.ca. More and more libertarians are getting it. (See The Origins of Libertarian IP Abolitionism, The Four Historical Phases of IP Abolitionism, …

From Prometheus Unbound:
PUP003 | Interview with Jeffrey Tucker
by GEOFFREY ALLAN PLAUCHÉ on MARCH 27, 2013 @ 8:05 AM
in Featured Posts, Interview Podcasts, IP, Novels
 

In episode three of the Prometheus Unbound Podcast, Matthew and I have a fantastic …

Another nice presentation from  learnliberty.org and Dr. Stephen Davies, a Historian with the Institute of Economics Affairs (see aslo SOPA and 3 Ways to think about Intellectual Property).
 

Great piece by Wendy McElroy, published today at The Daily Anarchist:
***

The Last Gasp of Copyright Dies Within Me
March 20th, 2013

Submitted by Wendy McElroy

A few weeks ago, my position on intellectual property …

In the historical “Retrospective” section of Wendy McElroy’s 2011 Libertarian Papers article “Contra Copyright, Again,” she discusses the beginnings of the modern libertarian anti-IP movement in the 1980s, spearheaded primarily by her and Samuel …

Cory Doctorow seems to keep inching more and more from IP reform to IP abolitionism. Jump on in, Cory–the water’s warm!

Copyright shouldn’t take away real property rights
Cory Doctorow at 4:02 pm …

Here is a very nice, short video arguing against patent and copyright from learnliberty.org, by Dr. Stephen Davies, a Historian with the Institute of Economics Affairs.
Update: see also LearnLiberty: Can Artists …

From StephanKinsella.com:

KOL 033 | Free Talk Live Interview on Reducing IP Costs (2010)
by STEPHAN KINSELLA on MARCH 17, 2013
in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY,KINSELLA ON LIBERTY PODCAST

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 033.

I was interviewed back on Jan. …

Nelson Loftin has produced a print version of my recent Libertarian Papers article “Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society” at Lulu.com (Paperback, 44 Pages).
Thanks, Nelson! Or, as IP-libertarians might say, …

From C4SS, based on my interview (KOL 031 | Smash Walls Radio Podcast: Episode 9: Patent Shenanigans). N.b.: I did not say trolls cost $500B a year; but it’s possible …

From StephanKinsella.com:

KOL 031 | Smash Walls Radio Podcast: Episode 9: Patent Shenanigans
by STEPHAN KINSELLA on MARCH 10, 2013
in KINSELLA ON LIBERTY PODCAST

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 031.
This is my appearance on the Smash Walls …

Yet more patent madness: German Court “Inclined” to Ban Google Maps. ‘Nuff said.

From StephanKinsella.com:

KOL 030 | Interview with Derek Khanna
by STEPHAN KINSELLA on MARCH 8, 2013
in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY,KINSELLA ON LIBERTY PODCAST

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 030.
This is an interview of Derek Khanna, a conservative/libertarian pro-innovation and …

The other day I had my A/V guys over to make some adjustments to one of my systems. While there were there I asked them if they could take a …

From the Library of Economics and Liberty blog, a post by David R. Henderson. Henderson is joining thousands of other libertarians who have become IP abolitionists (“The Death Throes of …

Jeff Tucker gives a concise explanation of why IP is a bad idea to two French gentlemen from ContrepointsOrg, including a discussion of how Ayn Rand went astray on this issue (see …

My article ”Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society,” has just been published in Libertarian Papers vol. 5 (1) (2013), pp 1-44. This is my first publication in the journal I started in …