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The “Productivity” of Patent Brainstorming

by Stephan Kinsella on January 4, 2012

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The Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF) is dedicated to building public awareness of the manner in which so-called “intellectual property” (IP) laws and policies impede innovation, creativity, communication, learning, knowledge, emulation, and information sharing. We are for property rights, free markets, competition, commerce, cooperation, and the voluntary sharing of knowledge, and oppose IP laws, which systematically impede or hamper innovation. IP law should be completely and immediately abolished.

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“Around this time I met the Galambosian.”
“The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism” (Mises Daily 2010)
The Economist on the American Patent System
Absurd Arguments for IP
Another way to explain the problem with IP: Resources v. Knowledge; Ownership v. Possession
Because of her error, Ayn Rand chose IP over real property rights, she chose death over life
Classificationism, Legislation, Copyright
Concise Tweet on the Problem with IP
Copying is Not A Tort
Copying, Patent Infringement, Copyright Infringement are not “Theft”, Stealing, Piracy, Plagiarism, Knocking Off, Ripping Off
Copyright is not a Verb; A Work is not “Copyrighted”
Copyright is Unconstitutional
Copyright is very sticky!
FDA and Patent Reform: A Modest Proposal
Galambos and Other Nuts
Intellectual Properganda
Intellectual Property Rights as Negative Servitudes
Intellectual Property versus Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual Property’s Great Fallacy
IP as Contract
IP is Not “Not Property”
IP Law and “Market Failure”
IP Proponents Do Not Even Know The Difference Between Patent, Copyright, Trademark …
It is impossible to own ideas
Let’s Make Copyright Opt-OUT
Libertarian and Lockean Creationism: Creation As a Source of Wealth, not Property Rights; Hayek’s “Fund of Experience”; the Distinction Between Scarce Means and Knowledge as Guides to Action
Mark Lemley: The Very Basis Of Our Patent System… Is A Myth
Masnick on Innovation vs. Invention; on Irrelevant and Nonrigorous Distinctions: Innovation, Invention, Ideas, Knowledge, Data, Discovery…
McElroy, “Copyright and Patent in Benjamin Tucker’s Periodical”
Milton Friedman (and Rothbard) on the Distorting and Skewing Effect of Patents
No, Libertarians, We Should NOT Abolish the CDA §230 and DMCA Safe Harbors!
On Leading by Example and the Power of Attraction (Open Source Publishing, Creative Commons, Public Domain Publishing)
On Property Rights in Superabundant Bananas and Property Rights as Normative Support for Possession
Patent Trolls, Bad Patents, and Incompetent Examiners are Not the Problem
Patent vs. Copyright: Which is Worse?
Richard Epstein’s Takings Political Theory versus Epstein’s Intellectual Property Views
Stop calling patent and copyright “property”; stop calling copying “theft” and “piracy”
The “Ontology” Mistake of Libertarian Creationists
The China Stealing IP Myth
The Mountain of IP Legislation
The Patent Holocaust
The Schizophrenic State
The Structural Unity of Real and Intellectual Property
The Velvet Elvis and Other Trademark Absurdities
There are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property
Trademark versus Copyright and Patent, or: Is All IP Evil?
Types of Intellectual Property
Where does IP Rank Among the Worst State Laws?
Whereupon Grok admits it (and AI) is severely gimped by copyright law

IP Answer Man

Copy This Book, Steal This Book, and Steal This Idea
IP Answer Man: “All property is fundamentally intellectual.”
IP Answer Man: Blockchain, Authors, Copyright
IP Answer Man: Combatting Piracy in and Free World; Mises on Copyright
IP Answer Man: Intangible Disputes and Coordination

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Intellectual Property Rights as Negative Servitudes on Copying, Patent Infringement, Copyright Infringement are not “Theft”, Stealing, Piracy, Plagiarism, Knocking Off, Ripping Off
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Classical Liberals, Libertarians, Anarchists and Others on Intellectual Property on Hoppe on Intellectual Property
Hayek’s Views on Intellectual Property on “The Law of the Sea of Ignorance: F. A. Hayek, Fritz Machlup, and other Neoliberals Confront the Intellectual Property Problem,” by Quinn Slobodian
Hayek’s Views on Intellectual Property on Libertarian and Lockean Creationism: Creation As a Source of Wealth, not Property Rights; Hayek’s “Fund of Experience”; the Distinction Between Scarce Means and Knowledge as Guides to Action
Libertarian and Lockean Creationism: Creation As a Source of Wealth, not Property Rights; Hayek’s “Fund of Experience”; the Distinction Between Scarce Means and Knowledge as Guides to Action on A Recurring Fallacy: “IP is a Purer Form of Property than Material Resources”
Libertarian and Lockean Creationism: Creation As a Source of Wealth, not Property Rights; Hayek’s “Fund of Experience”; the Distinction Between Scarce Means and Knowledge as Guides to Action on The “Ontology” Mistake of Libertarian Creationists
Why I Libertarian on Are anti-IP patent attorneys hypocrites?
Why I Libertarian on Classical Liberals, Libertarians, Anarchists and Others on Intellectual Property
Defamation as a Type of Intellectual Property on Schoolland: Sticks and Stones: A Critique of Libel and Slander Laws

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