Against Intellectual Property w/ Stephan Kinsella

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Against Intellectual Property w/ Stephan Kinsella
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Stephan Kinsella was my guest to talk about “intellectual property,” the concept that an individual’s ideas belong to them and should be protected from free use by others through law. Stephan is a patent attorney and libertarian writer in Houston whose book Against Intellectual Property is the seminal writing on this subject. We discussed why intellectual property is not really property, why it places an undue burden on society, and how it inhibits the free exchange of culture and ideas. He can be found at www.stephankinsella.com, at the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, and on Twitter @NSKinsella

Resources mentioned in the podcast:
Stephan Kinsella’s Against Intellectual Property – Amazon and Free from the Mises Institute
Stephan’s Soho forum debate Abolish Copyrights and Patents?
RiP: A Remix Manifesto – Amazon Video and Free on Youtube
Richard Stallman’s book Free Software, Free Society

Not discussed in the podcast, but relevant to this discussion, is my own essay Open Source Jesus: A Manifesto for a Liberated Church

Download audio:
https://cantus-firmus.com/Audio/20220708-StephanKinsella.mp3

Music:
F E E F I F O by Failed Kingdoms. Available here: https://soundcloud.com/failedk

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