Selected Supplementary Material for Against Intellectual Property

Laissez Faire Books released a new edition of my Against Intellectual Property in June 2012; the Introduction and further information are available here. AIP was first published as an article in the Journal of Libertarian Studies as part of the symposium “Applications of Libertarian Legal Theory” (vol. 15, no. 2, Spring 2001); it was based on “The Legitimacy of Intellectual Property,” a paper presented at the  Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama (March 25, 2000). It was later published as a monograph by the Mises Institute in 2008.

In the Introduction to the new edition, I link to the selected supplementary material contained in this post. As the  Introduction explains:

Since I wrote in AIP in 2001, I and others have written a good deal more on the topic of so-called intellectual property law, as it has become a greater and more apparent threat to property rights, freedom of expression, and the Internet. I am in the process of writing a new book on IP, tentatively entitled Copy This Book, taking into account more recent arguments, evidence, and examples. In the meantime, readers of AIP may find useful the list of selected writings and talks that supplement the arguments made in AIP, which I have compiled in my C4SIF blogpost “Selected Supplementary Material for Against Intellectual Property” (March 1, 2012), and which will be updated from time to time. For further information see various works linked at www.c4sif.org/resources and material posted going forward at www.c4sif.org.

Links to the supplementary material and readings are provided below. Material below is by me unless indicated otherwise.

Selected Supplementary Material for Against Intellectual Property

 Introductory Works

• “The Case Against IP: A Concise Guide,” Mises Daily (Sep. 4, 2009)
• Sheldon Richman, “Patent Nonsense,” The American Conservative (Jan. 1, 2012)
• Jacob H. Huebert, “The Fight against Intellectual Property,” from Libertarianism Today (Praeger, 2010).
• “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (Nov. 17, 2009)
• Jeff Tucker, “Ideas, Free and Unfree: A Book Commentary,” Mises Daily (March 18, 2011) (commentaries on Boldrin and Levine’s Against Intellectual Monopoly)

Media

• “Why Intellectual Property is not Genuine Property,” 3^rd Adam Smith Forum, Moscow, Russia (Nov. 12, 2011) (edited transcript)
• “Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics,” Mises Academy course (March-April, 2011)
• Lecture 5 on “Intellectual Property,” “Libertarian Legal Theory,” Mises Academy course (Jan.-March 2011)
• “Intellectual Property and Economic Development,” Mises University 2011 (July 27, 2011)
• “Obama’s Patent Reform: Improvement or Continuing Calamity?,” Mises Academy webinar (Sep. 23, 2011)
• “SOPA, Piracy, Censorship and the End of the Internet? Kinsella and Stefan Molyneux on Freedomain Radio” (Dec. 21, 2011)
• “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)
• “How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism,” Mises Institute Supporters’ Summit 2010 (Oct. 9 2010)
• “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” Mises University 2009 (July 30, 2009)
• “The Intellectual Property Quagmire, or, The Perils of Libertarian Creationism,” Austrian Scholars Conference 2008 (March 13, 2008)

Books and Articles

• Michele Boldrin & David Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly (2008)
• “The Great IP Debate of 1983,” Mises Daily (July 18, 2011)
• “How to Slow Economic Progress,” Mises Daily (June 1, 2011)
• “Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright,” Economic Notes No. 113 (Libertarian Alliance, Jan. 18, 2011)
• “Absurd Arguments for IP” (Dec. 10, 2010)
• “The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (July 28, 2010).
• “Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property: or, How Libertarians Went Wrong,” Mises Daily (Nov. 23, 2010)
• “Goods, Scarce and Nonscarce,” Mises Daily (with Jeff Tucker, Aug. 25, 2010)
• “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (Nov. 17, 2009)
• “Radical Patent Reform Is Not on the Way,” Mises Daily (Oct. 1, 2009)
• “Reducing the Cost of IP Law,” Mises Daily (Jan. 10, 2010)
• “There’s No Such Thing as a Free Patent,” Mises Daily (Mar. 7, 2005)

Blog Posts (from C4SIF unless specified otherwise)

• “Legal Scholars: Thumbs Down on Patent and Copyright” (Oct. 23, 2012)
• “The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright“ (Oct. 23, 2012)
• Intellectual Nonsense: Fallacious Arguments for IP (Libertopia 2012) (Oct. 13, 2012)
• “Copyright is very sticky!“ (Oct. 3, 2012)
• Mossoff: Patent Law Really Is as Straightforward as Real Estate Law (Aug. 17, 2012)
• “Copyright and Free Trade; Patents and Censorship” (Feb. 29, 2012)
• “The Surprising History of Copyright: Karl Fogel at Google Tech Talks” (Feb. 7, 2012)
• “Death by Copyright-IP Fascist Police State Acronym” (Jan. 30, 2012)
• “SOPA is the Symptom, Copyright is the Disease: The SOPA Wakeup Call to Abolish Copyright,” The Libertarian Standard (Jan. 24, 2012)
• “The “Productivity” of Patent Brainstorming” (Jan. 24, 2012)
• “Conversation with an author about copyright and publishing in a free society” (Jan. 23, 2012)
• “Where does IP Rank Among the Worst State Laws?” (Jan. 20, 2012)
• Stop calling patent and copyright “property”; stop calling copying “theft” and “piracy” (Jan. 9, 2012)
• “Should Copyright Be Allowed to Override Speech Rights?” (Dec. 20, 2011)
• “Copyright is Unconstitutional” (Nov. 27, 2011)
• “Patent vs. Copyright: Which is Worse?” (Nov. 5, 2011)
• “Classificationism, Legislation, Copyright” (Oct. 25, 2011)
• “Abolish antitrust law and the real monopoly: the state,” StephanKinsella.com Blog (Oct. 23, 2011)
• “The relation between the non-aggression principle and property rights: a response to Division by Zer0,” Mises Economics Blog (Oct. 4, 2011)
• “The Microsoft-Apple Gesture Oligopoly“ (Oct. 4, 2011)
• “Classifying Patent and Copyright Law as ‘Property’: So What?“ (Oct. 4, 2011)
• “Controls breed controls, Monopolies breed monopolies” (Sep. 28, 2011)
• “Ayn Rand Finally Right about the First-to-File US Patent System” (Sep. 9, 2011)
• “Copyright Censorship versus Free Speech and Human Rights; Excessive Fines and the Eighth Amendment” (Sep. 6, 2011)
• “The Patent Defense League and Defensive Patent Pooling” (Aug. 18, 2011)
• “Intellectual Property Advocates Hate Competition,” Mises Economics Blog (July 19, 2011)
• “Price Controls, Antitrust, and Patents” (July 10, 2011)
• “Are Patents Needed to Make Up for FDA Kneecapping?“ (July 2, 2011)
• “Intellectual Property Rights as Negative Servitudes,” Mises Economics Blog (June 23, 2011) (C4SIF)
• “Apple vs. Microsoft: Which Benefits more from Intellectual Property?” (June 21, 2011)
• “Patent Cross-Licensing Creates Barriers to Entry” (June 14, 2011)
• “Antitrust vs. Trademark Law” (June 13, 2011)
• “Masnick on the Horrible PROTECT IP Act: The Coming IPolice State” (June 2, 2011)
• “Copyright and the End of Internet Freedom” (May 10, 2011)
• “Objectivist Law Prof Mossoff on Copyright; or, the Misuse of Labor, Value, and Creation Metaphors,” Mises Economics Blog (April 19, 2011)
• “The Four Historical Phases of IP Abolitionism”(April 13, 2011)
• “Let’s Make Copyright Opt-OUT” (April 12, 2011)
• “Hume on Intellectual Property and the Problematic “Labor” Metaphor” (April 9, 2011)
• “Prior User Rights and Patent Reform” (April 1, 2011)
• “The Origins of Libertarian IP Abolitionism” (April 1, 2011)
• “Patent Reform is Here! O Joy!” (Mar. 23, 2011)
• “The Velvet Elvis and Other Trademark Absurdities” (Mar. 20, 2011)
• “Types of Intellectual Property” (March 4, 2011)
• “Defensive Patent Publishing” (Feb. 4, 2011)
• “How to Improve Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Law” (Feb. 1, 2011)
• “Against Net Neutrality” (Dec. 20, 2010)
• “Intellectual Properganda” (Dec. 6, 2010)
• “‘The’ Purpose of Patent Law” (Dec. 6, 2010)
• “IP Rights as Monopolistic Grants to Overcome the Public Goods Problem” (Dec. 4, 2010)
• “Funding for Creation and Innovation in an IP-Free World,” Mises Economics Blog (Dec. 1, 2010)
• “The Mountain of IP Legislation” (Nov. 24, 2010)
• “State Antitrust (anti-monopoly) law versus state IP (pro-monopoly) law,” Mises Economics Blog (Nov. 12, 2010)
• “Costs of the Patent System Revisited,” Mises Economics Blog (Sep. 29, 2010)
• “Locke on IP; Mises, Rothbard, and Rand on Creation, Production, and ‘Rearranging’,” Mises Economics Blog (Sep. 29, 2010)
• “Innovations that Thrive without IP,” StephanKinsella.com (Aug. 9, 2010)
• “Leveraging IP,” Mises Economics Blog (Aug. 1, 2010)
• “Examples of Ways Content Creators Can Profit Without Intellectual Property,” StephanKinsella.com (July 28, 2010)
• “The Creator-Endorsed Mark as an Alternative to Copyright,” Mises Economics Blog (July 15, 2010)
• “Locke, Smith, Marx and the Labor Theory of Value,” Mises Economics Blog (June 23, 2010)
• “The Patent, Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secret Horror Files,” Mises Economics Blog (Feb. 3, 2010)
• “The Non-Aggression Principle as a Limit on Action, Not on Property Rights,” StephanKinsella.com Blog (Jan. 22, 2010)
• “IP and Aggression as Limits on Property Rights: How They Differ,” StephanKinsella.com Blog (Jan. 22, 2010)
• “The “Productivity” of Patent Brainstorming,” StephanKinsella.com Blog (Jan. 7, 2010)
• “Common Misconceptions about Plagiarism and Patents: A Call for an Independent Inventor Defense,” Mises Economics Blog (Nov. 21, 2009)
• “Rand on IP, Owning “Values”, and ‘Rearrangement Rights’,” Mises Economics Blog (Nov. 16, 2009)
• “Are Patents ‘Monopolies’?,” Mises Economics Blog (July 13, 2009)
• “Yet Another Study Finds Patents Do Not Encourage Innovation,” Mises Economics Blog (July 2, 2009)
• “There are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property,” Mises Economics Blog (Feb. 24, 2009)
• “Trademark versus Copyright and Patent, or: Is All IP Evil?“, Mises Economics Blog (Feb. 11, 2009)
• “$30 Billion Taxfunded Innovation Contracts: The ‘Progressive-Libertarian’ Solution,” Against Monopoly (Nov. 23, 2008)
• “When Antitrust and Patents Collide (Rambus v. FTC),” Mises Economics Blog (June 15, 2008)
• “Trademark and Fraud,” Mises Economics Blog (Nov. 7, 2007), and also this comment
• “The Schizo Feds: Patent Monopolies and the FTC,” Mises Economics Blog (Aug. 27, 2006)
• “IP vs. Antitrust,” Mises Economics Blog (Sep. 8, 2005)