Author Interview: Stephan Kinsella on Against Intellectual Property




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Summary: An interview with Stephan Kinsella about his book "Against Intellectual Property, recorded in March 2010. The book is available for free at http://mises.org/books/against.pdf. Stephan Kinsella is a registered patent attorney, a libertarian theorist and lecturer, Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF), and Editor of Libertarian Papers. "I finally came to the conclusion that the reason I was having trouble finding a justification for IP was that Rand was just wrong, there is no justification for IP. Once I thought about it that way a lot of pieces fell into place and the whole system made a lot more sense..." Stephan Kinsella Podcast Episode