Stephan Kinsella was our guest to talk about "intellectual property," the concept that an individual's ideas belong to them and should be protected from free use by others through law. Stephan is a patent attorney and libertarian writer in Houston whose book Against Intellectual Property is the seminal work on this subject. We discussed why intellectual property is not really property, why it places an undue burden on society, and how it inhibits the free exchange of culture and ideas.

Stephan can be found at www.stephankinsella.com, at the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, and on X/Twitter @NSKinsella

Resources mentioned in this episode:
Stephan Kinsella’s book, Against Intellectual Property – on Amazon and Free from the Mises Institute
Stephan’s Soho forum debate, Abolish Copyrights and Patents?
RiP: A Remix Manifesto – Amazon Video and Free on YouTube
Richard Stallman’s book, Free Software, Free Society

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