Jeffrey A. Tucker on Intellectual Property

One of the greatest opponents of IP¹ is my friend and comrade-in-arms Jeff Tucker. See:

• Tucker and Kinsella, “Goods, Scarce andNonscarce,” in Stephan Kinsella, Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023)
• From Its a Jetsons World (Mises Institute, 2012):
  • Our Miracle of Pentecost
  • The Socialism of Agri-Patents
  • Why Religious People Struggle with Economics
  • Ideas, Free and Unfree: A Book Commentary (commentaries on Boldrin and Levine’s Against Intellectual Monopoly)
    • “A Book that Changes Everything” (on Boldrin and Levine’s Against Intellectual Monopoly; “This book helped me see the world more clearly and understand so much that had previously remained cloudy.”)
  • A Movie That Gets It Right
  • Youtube Playlist
• From Bourbon for Breakfast (Mises Institute, 2010):
  • Authors: Beware of Copyright (also on LewRockwell.com)
  • “If You Believe in IP, How Do You Teach Others?”
  • “Is Intellectual Property the Key to Success?”
  • “Books, Online and Off”
  • “Mises.org in the Context of Publishing History”
• From A Beautiful Anarchy (LFB, 2012):
  • “Violating Rights in the Name of Property“
  • “The Lorax: An Allegory on IP”
  • “Market Failure: The Case of Copyright”
  • “ISPs Becoming Enforcers for the State”
• From Liberty.me: Freedom Is a Do-It-Yourself Project (Liberty.me, 2013):
  • • Does Innovation Require the Patent Office? (reprinted at The Epoch Times, 4/17/2025)
    • Interview with the Daily Bell (Jeffrey Tucker on Laissez Faire Books, Intellectual Property Rights and ‘Beautiful Anarchy’)
    • The Patent Bubble and Its End (1, 2)
• Tucker: Violating Rights in the Name of Property
• Jeff Tucker Free Talk Live Interview on Open Information and IP
• “A Theory of Open” (archived comments)²
• “up with iTunes U” (including archived comments)
• Jeff Tucker Free Talk Live Interview on Open Information and IP
• Mises.org in the Context of Publishing History
• Misesian vs. Marxian vs. IP Views of Innovation (archived comments)

1. Classical Liberals, Libertarians, Anarchists and Others on Intellectual Property. [↩]
2. Related: B.K. Marcus, Mises.org on iTunes U, Doug French, The Intellectual Revolution Is in Process (archived blog comments); Kinsella, “Teaching an Online Mises Academy Course”; Kinsella, “Fifteen Minutes that Changed Libertarian Publishing“; Gary North, “A Free Week-Long Economics Seminar”.) [↩]