I was on The Peter Mac Show on May 12, 2010, with my fellow Libertarian Standard co-blogger Rob Wicks. We discussed a variety of matters, including whether libertarians should use the word “capitalism,” also anarchy, IP and other topics. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hju3PzLOMh8
Original podcast and additional notes available at http://www.stephankinsella.com/kinsella-on-liberty-podcast
Albert Lu interviewed me for his Power and Market podcast, posted July 29, 2014. Unlike most interviews, we talked about education, career choices, and related matters. This is an edited version of a longer interview. The longer one can be obtained by requesting access here.
Lu’s description for the longer interview (which will be posted anon):
Interview Highlights
In this interview, Stephan speaks directly to prospective law students, internet entrepreneurs, and technology capitalists about the practice of law and the dangerous world of intellectual property.
We also took time to discuss his own academic career and his multiple transitions from engineering student, to lawyer, to proprietor and independent scholar.
This was a fun interview and reminds me of reason I began this project in the first place.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APSe1pnsxhQ
Kinsella on Liberty podcast. Original version: http://www.stephankinsella.com/paf-podcast/kol253-berkeley-law-federalist-society-a-libertarians-case-against-intellectual-property/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRAzbAZQV0o
Original podcast and additional notes available at http://www.stephankinsella.com/kinsella-on-liberty-podcast
I was a guest today on the Peter Schiff Show (guest host Stefan Molyneux), discussing:
ObamaCare’s Next Legal Hurdle.
Stephan Kinsella, patent attorney & director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, on how ObamaCare still fails any reasonable legal test, whether anything constructive may come from the Apple/Samsung battle, and why entrepreneurs needn’t worry about their intellectual property.
Links to issues discussed:
Oklahoma lawsuit to derail Obamacare?
House passes Innovation Act by vote of 325-91: a small solution to a big patent problem
See also Another Problem with Legislation: James Carter v. the Field Codes: From an 1884 paperby James C. Carter, The Proposed Codification of Our Common Law: A Paper Prepared at the Request of The Committee of the Bar Association of the City of New York, Appointed to Oppose the Measure, defending New York’s common law from David Dudley Field’s attempt to (legislatively) codify it:
At present, when any doubt arises in any particular case as to what the true rule of the unwritten [i.e., judge-found, common-law developed] law is, it is at once assumed that the rule most in accordance with justice and sound policy is the one which must be declared to be the law. The search is for that rule. The appeal is squarely made to the highest considerations of morality and justice. These are the rallying points of the struggle. The contention is ennobling and beneficial to the advocates, to the judges, to the parties, to the auditors, and so indirectly to the whole community. The decision then made records another step in the advance of human reason towards that perfection after which it forever aspires. But when the law is conceded to be written down in a statute, and the only question is what the statute means, a contention unspeakably inferior is substituted. The dispute is about words. The question of what is right or wrong, just or unjust, is irrelevant and out of place. The only question is what has been written. What a wretched exchange for the manly encounter upon the elevated plane of principle!
For more on problems of legislation, and discussion of legal codes and codification efforts, see myLegislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society; and the articles collected here; also my posts Book Recommendations: Private, International, and Common Law; Legal Theory and The UN, International Law, and Nuclear Weapons. In particular, for further related commentary, see my Legislation and the Discovery of Law in a Free Society, e.g., note 78 and related text.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dER9iPvEls
Stephan Kinsella discusses his new Mises Academy course, Rethinking Intellectual Property. More information available at http://academy.mises.org/courses/ip-reconsidered-intellectual-property-austrian-economics-and-libertarian-theory/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4UcfXYGKLo
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 427.
More at https://www.stephankinsella.com/paf-podcast/kol427-lewis-clark-ip-imperialism/
Yesterday (April 10, 2024) I participated in Strings Attached: Tracing the Global Systems that Bind, 62nd Annual International Affairs Symposium, Lewis & Clark College, Portland Oregon, Debate 5: Pirates and Patents. Debate Topic: Is international intellectual property regulation a necessary protection for innovators or a form of modern imperialism?
My opponent was Pieter Cleppe. My notes are appended below. Official audio/video from the college should be provided shortly. In the meantime I will post here my own iphone recording of the debate. The audio for my remarks should be clear, but may be muffled for Cleppe and audience questions, until I get the official AV file from the college.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_cpqc-oHd0
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 399.
https://www.stephankinsella.com/paf-podcast/kol399-cryptovoices-ukraine-and-liberalism/
This is my appearance on the CryptoVoices podcast, Episode 138, interviewed by host Matthew Mežinskis.
Update: To be clear, in my off the cuff comments about some “antiwar” types and Israel and Russia, I had in mind some particular individuals, some private conversations and some others online, but did not mean the good folks at Antiwar.com–I’ve long been and remain a supporter, financial and otherwise, of Antiwar.com. I should have been clearer with my language.
Shownotes:
Matthew interviews Stephan Kinsella, lawyer and author, and anti-IP advocate.
Stephan covers a lot of ground on how to increase liberalism and reduce war, through the lens of the unjust and terrible war being waged by Russia in Ukraine.
Though there are a variety of views on NATO, nukes, and strategies for minimizing this and all state wars, the focus on this show is to philosophize and center our arguments on freedom and liberalism and private property, with the important caveat that we live in 2022, not in an anarcho-capitalistic world.
Listen on to learn more.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFdUF3jc9B8