Per Jeff Tucker’s request, since he gets frequent requests from readers for IP-related resources–listed below are links to several IP-related articles, including those available on LewRockwell.com, Mises.org and selected others:
Property/Rights-based Arguments
- Against Intellectual Property, Spring 2001, Vol. 15, no. 2 Journal of Libertarian Studies, Stephan Kinsella
- In Defense of Napster and Against the Second Homesteading Rule, September 4, 2000, LewRockwell.com, Stephan Kinsella (summary version of some of the arguments presented in “Against Intellectual Property”)
- The Morality of Acquiring and Enforcing Patents, Stephan Kinsella
- Murray N. Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State and Power and Market, Scholars Edition, liv, 745-54, 1133-38, 1181-86
- Murray N. Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty, pp. 123–24
- Contra Copyright, Wendy McElroy, The Voluntaryist, June 1985
- The Libertarian Case Against Intellectual Property Rights, Roderick T. Long, Formulations 3, no. 1 (Autumn 1995)
- Intellectual Property: Copyright and Patent in Liberty (from The Debates of Liberty, Wendy McElroy
Utilitarian Considerations
- Patents and Copyrights: Do the Benefits Exceed the Costs?, Fall 2001, Vol. 15 Num. 4 Journal of Libertarian Studies, Julio H. Cole
- On the Abuse of Patents as Economic Indicators, Winter 1998, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Pierre Desrochers
- Ludwig von Mises, Human Action 3rd rev. ed. Chicago: Henry Regnery (1966), chap. 23, section 6, pp. 661–62; see also pp. 128, 364
- The Case Against the Patent System, Pierre Desrochers, Le Québécois Libre, Sept. 2, 2000
- George Reisman, Capitalism, pp. 388-89 & 417-20; also 40, 96, 187, 216, 233
Mises Daily
- Rethinking Patent Law, July 18, 2000, Mises.org, Gene Callahan,
- Patent Wrongs, March 29, 2001, Mises.org, Ilana Mercer
- Cipro Shortage: An Invented Scarcity, October 25, 2001, Mises.org, Ilana Mercer
LewRockwell.com
- Letter to an Anonymous Patent Attorney, Stephan Kinsella
- Patently Absurd, Wendy McElroy
- Of Patents and Pooper-Scoopers, Karen De Coster
- My Un-PC Views on ‘Intellectual Property’, Jeremy Sapienza
- The Fraud of ‘Intellectual Property’
- The Government Copyright System Is Dying, Gary North
Further reading
- Links to other IP articles, pro and con, can be found at www.StephanKinsella.com/ip
