Yesterday I had a chance to participate in a debate on whether we should abolish copyrights and patents at Whittier Law School. For those who are interested, here’s the audio. I only had 15 minutes to make my case, and I wouldn’t expect to persuade anyone to the anti-IP position in such a short time. But perhaps I provoked some people to at least begin to reconsider whether we need government to grant these monopoly privileges — and to check out the important work on this subject by Stephan Kinsella and economists Michele Boldrin and David Levine. For an introduction, … Continue reading Let’s Abolish Copyrights and Patents