The Anti-IP Reader: Free Market Perspectives on Intellectual Property

(See also The Anti-IP Reader: Free Market Perspectives on Intellectual Property (Papinian Press, forthcoming; co-editor, with David Koepsell and Gary Chartier). And see also The Intellectual Property and Liberty Reader: A Skeletal Ebook )

A forthcoming book including a selection of writings in the libertarian, free-market, or liberal tradition, arguing against IP, including:

• Stephan Kinsella, Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society, Libertarian Papers 5 (1) (2013): 1-44
• Stephan Kinsella, Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright, Economic Notes No. 113 (Libertarian Alliance, Jan. 18, 2011)
• Michele Boldrin & David Levine, patent article
• “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 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)
• Cordato and Kirzner on Intellectual Property (April 21, 2011)
• Boldrin, levine “Does Intellectual Monopoly Help Innovation”
• Boldrin and Levine: The Case Against Patents
• Julio Cole, “Patents and Copyrights: Do the Benefits Exceed the Costs?”
• “Would the Absence of Copyright Laws Significantly Affect the Quality and Quantity of Literary Output?“
• Karl Fogel, The Surprising History of Copyright and The Promise of a Post-Copyright World
• David Koepsell, “Revising Intellectual Property: Liberating Intellectual Capital,”  Innovation, Sustainability, and Development: A New Manifesto
• Roderick Long, Owning Ideas Means Owning People
• The Libertarian Case Against Intellectual Property Rights
• Mike Masnick, “The Case For Patents Harming Innovation“
• Wendy McElroy, The Last Gasp of Copyright Dies Within Me
• On the Subject of Intellectual Property
• Copyright and Patent in Benjamin Tucker’s periodical Liberty
• Contra Copyright, Again
• Musical Condoms: Make Mine Whistle “Dixie”
• Patently Absurd
• Sheldon Richman on Intellectual Property versus Liberty
• Sheldon Richman, Intellectual “Property” Versus Real Property: What Are Copyrights and What Do They Mean for Liberty?, The Freeman (12 June 2009)
• ———, “Patent Nonsense,” The American Conservative (Jan. 1, 2012)
• ———, “Slave Labor and Intellectual Property: On a misplaced analogy,” The Freeman Online (June 3, 2011)
• Jeff Tucker “Violating Rights in the Name of Property“
• John Perry Barlow, “The Economy of Ideas: A framework for patents and copyrights in the Digital Age,” Wired (1994)
• Tom W. Bell, Intellectual Privilege: Copyright, Common Law, and the Common Good (draft)
• ———, The Great Debate on Intellectual Property, in Cato Policy Report (January/February 2002)
• ———, other copyright writing
• Böhm-Bawerk on Patent and Copyright
• Boudewijn Bouckaert, “What Is Property?”
• Kevin Carson, Intellectual Property — A Libertarian Critique
• Pierre Desrochers, On the Abuse of Patents as Economic Indicators, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics (Winter 1998)
• ———, “Excludability, Creativity and the Case Against the Patent System,” Economic Affairs, vol. 20, no. 3 (September 2000), pp. 14-16
• Doug French, “The Intellectual Revolution Is in Process“
• Hayek: see Hayek’s Views on Intellectual Property; also Tucker, “Misesian vs. Marxian vs. IP Views of Innovation“; Tucker, “Hayek on Patents and Copyrights“; Salerno, Hayek Contra Copyright Laws
• Charles Johnson (RadGeek), “Patents Kill” (I) and “Patents Kill” (II);
• ———, “Libertarians for Protectionism” (1, 2, 3)
• Samuel Edward Konkin III, “Copywrongs,” The Voluntaryist (July 1986) (archived LRC version)
• Daniel Krawisz, The Fallacy of Intellectual Property, Mises Daily (Aug. 25, 2009)
• Francois Leveque & Yann Meniere, The Economics of Patents and Copyrights
• Fritz Machlup, U.S. Senate Subcommittee On Patents, Trademarks & Copyrights, An Economic Review of the Patent System, 85th Cong., 2nd Session, 1958, Study No. 15 (text excerpt) [“Report to the US congress from 1958, which also extensively narrates the history of the patent movement and of earlier economic research on this subject. Machlup, a renowned American economist of Austrian origin, is the first author of a large treatise on knowledge economics and other treatises which belong to the teaching repertoire of economics departments in universities. His report cites a wealth of historical and economic evidence to refute most of the reasoning used by lawyers to legitimate the patent system.”]
• Fritz Machlup & Edith Penrose, “The Patent Controversy in the Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Economic History 10 (1950), p. 1
• Ludwig von Mises, Human Action 3rd rev. ed. Chicago: Henry Regnery (1966), chap. 23, section 6, pp. 661–62; see also pp. 128, 364
• Re Mises, see also Kinsella, “Mises on Intellectual Property“
• Gary North, Don’t Invest in Copyright-Protected Companies (Nov. 5, 2003)
• Tom Palmer, “Intellectual Property: A Non-Posnerian Law and Economics Approach“
• ———, “Are Patents and Copyrights Morally Justified? The Philosophy of Property Rights and Ideal Objects“
• Arnold Plant, “The Economic Theory Concerning Patents for Inventions,” Economica, New Series, 1, no. 1 (Feb., 1934)
• Leonard Read, “On Plagiarism” (1972), reprinted in Kinsella, “Leonard Read on Copyright and the Role of Ideas“
• George Reisman, Capitalism, pp. 388-89 & 417-20; also 40, 96, 187, 216, 233
• Murray N. Rothbard, Knowledge, True and False
• ———, Man, Economy, and State and Power and Market, Scholars Edition, pp. liv, 745-54, 1133-38, 1181-86