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IP Proponents Do Not Even Know The Difference Between Patent, Copyright, Trademark …

by on December 11, 2025
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Concise Tweet on the Problem with IP

by on December 7, 2025
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The Patent Holocaust

by on October 8, 2025
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Copying is Not A Tort

by on June 7, 2025
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The “Ontology” Mistake of Libertarian Creationists

by on May 29, 2025
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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

by on May 6, 2025
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The China Stealing IP Myth

by on April 27, 2025
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Because of her error, Ayn Rand chose IP over real property rights, she chose death over life

by on April 25, 2025
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The Structural Unity of Real and Intellectual Property

by on April 23, 2025
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IP is Not “Not Property”

by on April 23, 2025
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Copying, Patent Infringement, Copyright Infringement are not “Theft”, Stealing, Piracy, Plagiarism, Knocking Off, Ripping Off

by on April 23, 2025
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Patent Trolls, Bad Patents, and Incompetent Examiners are Not the Problem

by on April 22, 2025
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IP as Contract

by on April 20, 2025
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On Property Rights in Superabundant Bananas and Property Rights as Normative Support for Possession

by on April 19, 2025
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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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Classical Liberals, Libertarians, Anarchists and Others on Intellectual Property

The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright

Defamation as a Type of Intellectual Property

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