Intellectual Property

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Patent Attorney: Intellectual Property Is “Evil”—And Businesspeople Should Oppose It

2013-10-24 • Magazine Article Stephan Kinsella

In my view, patent and copyright should be abolished, for a number of reasons. First, most advocates of IP admit that they are temporary monopoly privileges, that these laws are deviations from the free market, from a private property system. But the

Inventions

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Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist

2012-09-28 • Magazine Article Stephan Kinsella

There have always been criticisms of existing IP laws and policies and many calls for "reform." But I became opposed not just to "ridiculous" patents and "outrageous" IP lawsuits, but to patent and copyright per se. Patent and copyright law should be