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Speaking on “Why Intellectual Property is not Genuine Property” at Adam Smith...
The 3rd Adam Smith Forum is being held Nov. 12, 2011 in Moscow. This is an impressive event, organized by the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, the Libertarian Party of Russia, and others. The...
View ArticleWas Galambos an IP Thief?
I’ve written before about the quirky scientistic California libertarian guru Andrew J. Galambos, and his extreme, crazy IP ideas. ((See Galambos and Other Nuts; also Galambosian IP Recursion; “Ideas...
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Property and Science: The Twin Pillars of Prosperity and Civilization–versus...
As noted in prevoius posts, ((Open Science Summit Streaming Live; Kinsella on Panel at Open Science Summit.)) I spoke this past weekend on a panel at the Open Science Summit, held at the Computer...
View ArticleMarx was right about capitalism
Hoppe has explained how Marx was “essentially correct” in his theory of history and class analysis. His main mistake was his understanding of exploitation, which was based on a flawed understanding of...
View ArticleAndrew Torrance: Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts
As noted previously, I was on the IP panel of the Open Science Summit last weekend. I was please to meet co-panelist Andrew Torrance, a law professor at the University of Kansas School of Law. My...
View ArticleClassificationism, Legislation, Copyright
From my C4SIF post: Ideally law ought to be developed in a decentralized fashion by judges, juries, arbitral tribunals applying developed legal principles based on libertarian ideas about justice and...
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Open Science Summit Streaming Live
I’m here at the amazing Computer History Museum in Mountain View, to speak on a panel at the Open Science Summit. My panel is on intellectual property and science, and starts at 10:00 a.m. PST. The...
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Chartier: Markets Not Capitalism
From Roderick Long’s blog post: A new book has been released by editors Gary Chartier and Charles Johnson, Markets Not Capitalism, that may be of interest to some here, especially as they heroically...
View ArticleCorporate Personhood, Limited Liability, and Double Taxation
I have a long, fairly detailed and systematic blog post up at The Libertarian Standard discussing the demands of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement for an end to “corporate personhood,” and a host...
View ArticleThis Week in Law discusses Patent Reform, OWS
Last week I was a Guest panelist on This Week in Law, Episode 133, entitled “Beyonce, Bad Laws, and Breastaurants.” The two hosts and fellow guest panelist were all lawyers. We had a wide-ranging...
View ArticleACTA, Executive Agreements, and the Bricker Amendment
For months now we’ve warned that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was on its way to being approved. This agreement is intended to strengthen international patent and copyright protection...
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The American Invents Act and Patent Reform: The Good, the Meh, and the Ugly
It’s widely recognized that the American patent system is “broken” and needs to be “fixed.” ((See Chorus Of Mainstream Press Saying The Patent System Is Broken Gets Louder; Bill Gates’ 1991 Comments on...
View ArticleTaiwan’s Defensive “Patent Bank”
In my post The Patent Defense League and Defensive Patent Pooling, I suggested that some companies or industries might be able to form a “patent defense league” where patents are pooled and made...
View ArticleClassifying Patent and Copyright Law as “Property”: So What?
In recent papers, two pro-intellectual property libertarians, Richard Epstein and Objectivist Adam Mossoff, try to defend IP by arguing that it “can” be treated like property by a legal system. In...
View ArticleThe relation between the non-aggression principle and property rights: a...
There was an interesting exchange recently between a left-libertarian (I think that’s what he is) who goes by Divide by Zer0, and anarcho-libertarian Stefan Molyneaux. “dbzer0″ argued against property...
View ArticleUpdate: Austrian economics program denied at Loyola New Orleans
In Austrian economics program denied at Loyola New Orleans, I noted that an attempt by Austrian professors at Loyola New Orleans to establish an Austrian economics master’s program had been rejected by...
View ArticleIs Amazon’s Silk Browser a Copyright Pirate?
Amazon introduced a new tablet today, the Kindle Fire, which uses the “Silk” browser, which is discussed here, and in the video below. One smart thing Silk does to speed up web browsing as seen by the...
View ArticleControls breed controls, Monopolies breed monopolies
As Mises explained, controls breed controls. ((“interventionism cannot work as a permanent system of society’s economic organization. The various measures recommended must necessarily bring about...
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Salerno: “Varieties of Austrian Price Theory: Rothbard Reviews Kirzner”
The following article was published yesterday in Libertarian Papers: 25. “Varieties of Austrian Price Theory: Rothbard Reviews Kirzner” by Joseph T. Salerno Abstract: The root of any system of economic...
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Why should the government be limited?
In Sheldon Richman’s excellent Freeman column Elizabeth Warren’s Non Sequitur, he rightly criticizes the abysmal logic expressed by Elizabeth Warren, the demonrat who’s running for the U.S. Senate in...
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