Kinsella On Liberty

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 170. Episode 325 of the Tom Woods Show: Are Corporations Un-Libertarian? From Tom's show notes (with a few additions from me): Corporations aren’t people, say protestors. Corporations are creatures of the state, say some libertarians. Is there any merit to these complaints? Should libertarians support the corporate form or not? That’s the topic of discussion on today’s episode, with guest Stephan Kinsella. Related Writing by the Guest “Corporate Personhood, Limited Liability, and Double Taxation” “In Defense of the Corporation” “Legitimizing the Corporation” “Causation and Aggression” (with Patrick Tinsley) [See also: KOL115 | Mises Canada Austrian AV Club—Kinsella and the Corporation on Trial (2012) KOL100 | The Role of the Corporation and Limited Liability In a Free Society (PFS 2013) KOL 026 | FreeDomain Radio with Stefan Molyneux discussing Corporations and Limited Liability Left-Libertarianism on Corporations and Limited Liability Rothbard on Corporations and Limited Liability for Tort Comment on Knapp’s Big Government, Big Business — Conjoined Twins Pilon on Corporations: A Discussion with Kevin Carson This Reminds Me of Some Left-Libertarian Criticisms of “Big Business” Defending Corporations: Block and Huebert Run! Run! It’s a Business in a Box! Legitimizing the Corporation and Other Posts ] Book by the Guest Against Intellectual Property Book Mentioned Robert Hessen, In Defense of the Corporation

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 169. I was interviewed today by Daniel Rothschild for his "Live Free, Die Old" Youtube channel. We discussed primarily the fallacious argument that Lockean-libertarian-based property titles are flawed if they are based on conquest or cannot be traced back to the first homesteader. Background material: Rothbard on the “Original Sin” in Land Titles: 1969 vs. 1974 Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe on the “Original Sin” in the Distribution of Property Rights Justice and Property Rights: Rothbard on Scarcity, Property, Contracts… Property Title Records and Insurance in a Free Society

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 168. Jeffrey Tucker Interviews Stephan Kinsella on Samsung-Apple trial, Laissez-Faire Club (Aug. 27, 2012). Video below.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 167. I was a guest in July 2012 on the Liberty Minded show Speaking on Liberty, discussing intellectual property. The hosts, Kyle Platt, Jason Lee Byas, and Grayson English, were very good and asked excellent questions. The show is here, and the video is embedded below.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 166. I was a guest back on June 6, 2012 on the Peter Schiff Show (guest host Jeff Tucker), discussing problems with patent law. The original audio file for the full show is here; my segment was from 1:00:55 to the end (about 20 minutes total). For the podcast feed I have included only my segment.

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 165. This is my Austrian AV Club Interview by Redmond Weissenberger, [RIP] Director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, back from May 3, 2012. We had a long-ranging discussion of intellectual property and libertarian theory, including a discussion about exactly how Ayn Rand and other libertarians got off track on this issue, in part because of flaws regarding "labor" and "creationism" in Locke's original homesteading argument; inconsistencies between Rand's support for IP and her recognition that production means rearranging existing property; and also the different roles of scarce means and knowledge in the praxeological structure of human action. (For more on these issues, see my blog posts Locke on IP; Mises, Rothbard, and Rand on Creation, Production, and ‘Rearranging’, Hume on Intellectual Property and the Problematic “Labor” Metaphor, Rand on IP, Owning “Values”, and ‘Rearrangement Rights’, and The Patent Defense League and Defensive Patent Pooling, and my article "Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright.") The video is below as well. (Trivia: I used my iPad, running the Skype app, for this interview. More stable and better camera than a MacBook.)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 164. Friday, Sep. 23, 2011, I conducted a Mises Academy Webinar discussing the America Invents Act, signed into law Sept. 16 2011 by President Obama. I discussed the webinar in a Mises Daily article, Obama’s Patent Reform: Improvement or Continuing Calamity? (archived comments) and discussed the AIA in further detail in The American Invents Act and Patent Reform: The Good, the Meh, and the Ugly. In the webinar, I: summarized the basic problem with patent law from a free-market perspective; presented a series of real patent reforms that could make significant improvement in patent law (short of abolition); explained and critiqued the relevant changes made by the America Invents Act; briefly summarized other imminent IP legislation and treaties on the horizon; and responded to questions from attendees. The slides used in the webinar are provided below. Video Slides:

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 163. I was interviewed yesterday by James Sirois of the Critical Thinking is Required podcast, episode 27. The shownotes are below: Released: December 2, 2014      By: James In CTIR Interview 27: Stephan Kinsella (Intellectual Property), I interview Stephan Kinsella about intellectual property. Specifically, we discuss copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secret law. Additionally, we analyze how these various types of law stifle innovation and competition. Critical Thinking is Required is a political and educational podcast for individuals with endless curiosity. Thank you for listening to CTIR. If you enjoyed the show, please share it with your friends. http://criticalthinkingisrequired.com Thank you Mevio’s Music Alley for providing license free music. The intro and outro song is titled "Power Within Me" by Junga World. Sources: https://stephankinsella.com/ http://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0 http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/12/argument-preview-justices-will-use-rare-look-at-trademark-law-to-consider-broad-and-narrow-conceptions-of-trademarks/

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 162. Interview on IP and libertarianism by Fabrizio Sitzia, LibertariaNation.org (Italy) (April 15, 2012; recorded Feb. 23, 2012) I was interviewed Feb. 23, 2012, by Fabrizio Sitzia of the Italian libertarian group LibertariaNation.org. It was posted on YouTube. We discussed intellectual property and related issues such as SOPA, plagiarism, IP-by-contract, and other libertarian issues such as prospects for liberty in the future; the importance of technology, the Internet, and globalism; Ron Paul and electoral politics; and libertarian sentiments and receptiveness among today’s young people. (See also Italian Libertarian IP Debate.) More info at the LibertariaNation post Intervista a Stephan Kinsella (English translation from Google translate).

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 161. This was my (remotely delivered) presentation at the 6th Adam Smith Forum, Moscow, Russia (Nov. 2, 2014): From the programme: "Entitled "Argumentation Ethics, Estoppel, and Libertarian Rights," Kinsella discusses the nature and definition of libertarianism and surveys different arguments and theories for its particular conception of rights and politics, including natural rights, consequentialist, and utilitarian approaches. He concludes with an overview of two more recent and unique approaches to justifying libertarian rights, the "argumentation ethics" approach of Austrian economist and political philosopher Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Kinsella's own "estoppel" theory of rights." This is my second speech at the Adam Smith Forum; the first was “Why Intellectual Property is not Genuine Property,” 3rd Adam Smith Forum, Moscow, Russia (Nov. 12, 2011), also via remote video. I did not prepare a new powerpoint but I drew heavily on the one linked here, and included below. Here is the transcript. The main resources I drew on, which I mentioned in the lecture, include: New Rationalist Directions in Libertarian Rights Theory Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide Defending Argumentation Ethics: Reply to Murphy & Callahan A Libertarian Theory of Punishment and Rights How We Come To Own Ourselves [Update: See also: Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide,” Mises Daily (May 27, 2011) (includes “Discourse Ethics and Liberty: A Skeletal Ebook”), including: Hans Hermann Hoppe, “On The Ethics of Argumentation” (PFS 2016) The A priori of Argumention, video introduction by Hoppe Lecture 3 of my 2011 Mises Academy course, “The Social Theory of Hoppe” (slides here) Lecture 2 of my 2011 Mises Academy course, “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society” (slides here) my “Dialogical Arguments for Libertarian Rights,” in The Dialectics of Liberty (Lexington Books, 2019) Kinsella, The Genesis of Estoppel: My Libertarian Rights Theory, StephanKinsella.com (March 22, 2016) ————, Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethics and Its Critics, StephanKinsella.com (Aug. 11, 2015) ] These issued were also discussed in further detail in previous Mises Academy courses: KOL155 | “The Social Theory of Hoppe: Lecture 3: Libertarian Rights and Argumentation Ethics” (the slides for this lecture are appended below; links for“suggested readings” for the course are included in the podcast post for the first lecture, episode 153) KOL108 | “Why ‘Intellectual Property’ is not Genuine Property,” Adam Smith Forum, Moscow (2011) SLIDES FOR THE SOCIAL THEORY OF HOPPE: LECTURE 3: LIBERTARIAN RIGHTS AND ARGUMENTATION ETHICS Update: As noted here, This talk is from 2014. I was invited to Moscow for the Adam Smith Forum. I decided it would be prudent to deliver my talk remotely. Didn't want to pull a Brittney Griner. Oddly, I was invited a second time to Russia that year, all-expense and paid trip to St. Petersburg & Moscow, to speak for a lecture series by Russian Esquire Magazine in conjunction with http://InLiberty.ru, a Russian NGO. The InLiberty person told me that "unlike its American and British cousins," Russian Esquire magazine "evolved from a men's fashion and lifestyle magazine into more of a public policy and social observer, very libertarian in its editorial policies..." I was skeptical and leery, so ran this by my Adam Smith Institute Moscow contact and he assured me it was legitimate. Still, I let discretion be the better part of valor and declined. I've traveled enough around the world that I have little inclination to go somewhere to "check it off the list," have never had any interest in visiting Asia, the Middle East, Africa, or former commie shitholes. So I declined.