Abolish Intellectual Property: Collected Essays

Abolish Intellectual Property: Collected Essays (forthcoming late 2021). An edited selection of my own articles on IP, including:

• Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society, Libertarian Papers 5 (1) (2013): 1-44
• Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright, Economic Notes No. 113 (Libertarian Alliance, Jan. 18, 2011)
• Goods, Scarce and Nonscarce (with Jeffrey A. Tucker)
• “The Great IP Debate of 1983,” Mises Daily (July 18, 2011)
• “How to Slow Economic Progress,” Mises Daily (June 1, 2011)
• “Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright,” Economic Notes No. 113 (Libertarian Alliance, Jan. 18, 2011) (also published as “Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright,” The Libertarian Standard, Jan. 19, 2011) [Mises.org version]
• “Absurd Arguments for IP” (Dec. 10, 2010)
• “The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (July 28, 2010) [Mises blog comments archived — some here, some here]
• “Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property: or, How Libertarians Went Wrong,” Mises Daily (Nov. 23, 2010)
• “Goods, Scarce and Nonscarce,” Mises Daily (with Jeff Tucker, Aug. 25, 2010)
• “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (Nov. 17, 2009)
• “Radical Patent Reform Is Not on the Way,” Mises Daily (Oct. 1, 2009)
• “Reducing the Cost of IP Law,” Mises Daily (Jan. 10, 2010)
• “There’s No Such Thing as a Free Patent,” Mises Daily (Mar. 7, 2005)
• Kinsella, Against Intellectual Property (including Selected Supplementary Material)
• ——, A Selection of my Best Articles and Speeches on IP
• —–, “The Case Against IP: A Concise Guide“
• ——, How Intellectual Property Hampers the Free Market
• —–, Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics (Mises Academy course)
• —–, Do Business Without Intellectual Property (Liberty.me, 2014) (PDF)
• Boldrin & Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly
• —–, Boldrin and Levine: The Case Against Patents
• —–, The Economics of Musical Copyright
• Sheldon Richman, “Patent Nonsense“
• Kinsella, “Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society,” Libertarian Papers 5 (1) (2013): 1-44
• —–, The Patent, Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secret Horror Files
• Jacob H. Huebert, “The Fight against Intellectual Property“
• Tucker, “Ideas, Free and Unfree: A Book Commentary” (commentaries on Boldrin and Levine’s Against Intellectual Monopoly)
• Intellectual Property (MisesWiki)
• Without Intellectual Property (MisesWiki) (“How would the world look like without Intellectual Property? What are the current success stories and possible alternatives if some or all forms of IP were repealed (or became unenforceable)?”)
• “Why Intellectual Property is not Genuine Property,” edited transcript of speech delivered at 3^rd Adam Smith Forum, Moscow, Russia (Nov. 12, 2011)
• “The Great IP Debate of 1983,” Mises Daily (July 18, 2011)
• “How to Slow Economic Progress”
• “Rethinking IP”
• “Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright”
• “Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property: or, How Libertarians Went Wrong“
• “Goods, Scarce and Nonscarce” (with Tucker)
• “The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism”
• “Reducing the Cost of IP Law”
• “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism”
• “Radical Patent Reform Is Not on the Way”
• “The Case Against IP: A Concise Guide”
• “How Intellectual Property Hampers the Free Market“
• In Defense of Napster and Against the Second Homesteading Rule, September 4, 2000, LewRockwell.com
• There’s No Such Thing as a Free Patent, Mises Daily (Mar. 7, 2005)
• “The Case Against IP: A Concise Guide,” Mises Daily (Sep. 4, 2009)
• Sheldon Richman, “Patent Nonsense,” The American Conservative (Jan. 1, 2012)
• Jacob H. Huebert, “The Fight against Intellectual Property,” from Libertarianism Today (Praeger, 2010).
• “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (Nov. 17, 2009)
• Jeff Tucker, “Ideas, Free and Unfree: A Book Commentary,” Mises Daily (March 18, 2011) (commentaries on Boldrin and Levine’s Against Intellectual Monopoly)
• Introduction to Against Intellectual Property, Laissez Faire Books (2012) (files linked above)
• A Selection of my Best Articles and Speeches on IP (Nov. 30, 2015)
• The “If you own something, that implies that you can sell it; if you sell something, that implies you must own it first” Fallacies, StephanKinsella.com (June 2, 2018)
• Rothbard on the Main Fallacy of our Time: Marx’s Labor Theory of Value (Dec. 26, 2016)
• Independent Institute on The “Benefits” of Intellectual Property Protection (Feb 16, 2016)
• Classical Liberals and Anarchists on Intellectual Property, Oct. 6, 2015
• Locke’s Big Mistake: How the Labor Theory of Property Ruined Political Theory: Transcript
• “Oh yeah? How would like it if I copy and publish your book under my name?!”: On IP Hypocrisy and Calling the Smartasses’ Bluffs,” Jan. 3, 2013
• “Legal Scholars: Thumbs Down on Patent and Copyright” (Oct. 23, 2012)
• “The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright” (Oct. 23, 2012)
• Intellectual Nonsense: Fallacious Arguments for IP (Libertopia 2012) (Oct. 13, 2012)