Ep. 2145 Does Intellectual Property Exist?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible that we've been snookered into believing in a nonsensical concept? Is it possible to "own" an idea? Stephan Kinsella walks us through copyright, patent, trademarks, and trade secrets from a libertarian perspective, and also considers the utilitarian arguments for intellectual property.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Wood Show, Episode 2145. |
| 0:03.5 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.0 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here. |
| 0:11.6 | The Tom Wood Show. |
| 0:14.5 | Folks, I don't know about you, but I am running into a lot of progressive saying, |
| 0:17.9 | look, police, fire, schools, these are all great examples of socialism. |
| 0:22.8 | Well, let's focus on that school example. |
| 0:24.9 | I've got a free ebook called Education Without the State |
| 0:28.4 | that makes a pretty darn good case for a stateless approach to education. |
| 0:33.6 | Pick it up at nostateeducation.com. |
| 0:37.4 | Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:38.7 | We are doing a systematic episode, finally, on the subject of intellectual property. |
| 0:44.4 | And we're doing it with our old friend, Stefan Kinsella. |
| 0:48.4 | Kinsella is the author of a book from many years ago called Against Intellectual Property. |
| 0:55.3 | And we're going to go through what his arguments are and you make up your own minds. |
| 1:01.3 | Kinsella has a very significant background in legal publishing as well. |
| 1:06.1 | Most recently, international investment, political risk, and dispute resolution, |
| 1:10.6 | a practitioner's guide, published by Oxford. |
| 1:13.3 | You can get his full bio at his website, Stefan Kinsella. |
| 1:17.7 | That's STEPHAN. |
| 1:20.4 | StefanKinsella.com. |
| 1:22.3 | Stefan, welcome back. |
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