by Stephan Kinsella
on April 15, 2025
Re Examples of Ways Content Creators Can Profit Without Intellectual Property and Conversation with an author about copyright and publishing in a free society … God I tire of this. It’s a never-ending littany or series of questions. It never ends. No one can think in principled terms.
As I noted previously,
Just one follow up question: If you can, could you give an idea of how the “creative industries” might operate in a world without copyright and intellectual property? I.e. how would things like films and television, which require significant capital investment, be funded and ultimately constitute a profitable enterprise outside the current paradigm where copyright owners profit from selling copyrighted material/from royalties? Would the “creative industries”, as we know them today, even exist?
To me that seems to be the sticking point for many people — they might admit the principled objections to copyright and IP, but can’t get their head around how cultural content would be made without copyright. I’m not sure I fully grasp it myself. [continue reading…]
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by Stephan Kinsella
on April 15, 2025
KOL459 | Twitter Spaces: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, Libertarian Property Rights, and the Case for Abolishing Intellectual Property
by Stephan Kinsella on April 15, 2025
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 459.
In response to lots of froth on Twitter related to Jack Dorsey’s call to “delete all IP law,” which was echoed by Elon Musk (Musk and Dorsey: “delete all IP law”) I decided to attempt to host an impromptu Twitter Spaces about this. After overcoming some technical glitches, here is the result (and thanks to @Brunopbch, @NotGovernor (Patrick Smith), and @TrueAmPatriot86 for assists). I proposed to the space: “Fielding Questions About Abolishing Intellectual Property, about IP, and About Libertarian Property Rights”, and that’s basically what we ended up talking about. The Twitter spaces can be viewed here; I have clipped off the first 8 minutes or so of setup talk for this podcast episode.
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by Stephan Kinsella
on April 13, 2025
About 15 years ago one Russell Madden was angry with my anti-IP article “The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism,” so he emailed me a suspiciously similar version, but with “his name” “slapped on” it, titled “The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism, by Russell Madden.” His accompanying note said, “SURE. NO SUCH THING AS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY…” So, to be helpful, I published it for him, on my own site. After all, maybe the poor fella didn’t have a site or way to publish his intriguing anti-IP article!
Well now, pro-copyright author J.P. Chandler tells me he is also wants to publish a book called Legal Foundations of a Free Society—hey, that’s the same title as mine! [continue reading…]
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by Stephan Kinsella
on April 13, 2025
One of the greatest opponents of IP is my friend and comrade-in-arms Jeff Tucker. See:
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by Stephan Kinsella
on April 12, 2025
As everyone knows, I oppose all forms of IP law. I have also endeavored for many years to publish as much as I can free from copyright, at least in my libertarian writing (it has not been possible with my legal books published with mainstream, for-profit publishers), although it’s really that easy to get rid of copyright.
When I submit a chapter for inclusion in a book, the book is often from a for-profit academic publisher. Though they pay the authors nothing, they often charge insane prices for the books and of course employ copyright paywalls. They also often demand the author assign their copyright. I always refuse. Sometimes I resort to tricks to get around this. [continue reading…]
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by Stephan Kinsella
on April 11, 2025
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by Stephan Kinsella
on April 11, 2025
From the execrable site IPWatchdog, run by Gene Quinn: Eileen McDermott, “NO FAKES Act Reintroduced to Support from Both Big Tech and Creators,” IPWatchdog (April 9, 2025):
“According to a press release by the Recording Industry Association of America today, the updated bill ‘takes a measured approach to protecting Americans from invasive deepfakes while reducing litigation and promoting American AI development.’”
Today, Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Chris Coons (D-DE), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) reintroduced the NO FAKES Act, which would create a federal IP right to an individual’s voice and likeness.
In September 2024, U.S. Representatives María Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Nathaniel Moran (R-TX), Joe Morelle (D-NY), Rob Wittman (R-VA) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) introduced the bill in the House of Representatives, two months after Coons, Blackburn, Klobuchar and Tillis had in the Senate. [continue reading…]
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by Stephan Kinsella
on April 11, 2025
Daniel Lacalle on Twitter: “China bans US exports ans businesses and steal intelectual property.” I have no doubt that most of Lacalle’s criticisms of China are true. But not this one.
Lacalle seems to be unaware that mis-named and dishonestly-named “intellectual property” (IP) is actually antithetical, hostile, and contrary to free markets, capitalism, private property, and so on, and that Austrians and libertarians—especially Austro-libertarians, and especially those affiliated with the Mises Institute (see this recent Tweet by the Mises Bookstore, for example)—by and large now recognize this. IP is socialistic and destructive, and downright evil to the core. We would never endorse the institution of IP. As I wrote previously, [continue reading…]
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