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What do you think of "Intellectual Property" rights? I changed my mind after reading some of Stephan Kinsella's work.

Resource scarcity is the foundational principle underpinning the social construct of property rights. Kinsella states that there are no property rights in situations where there is no resource scarcity.

From that perspective, this young man is not being prosecuted, he is being persecuted.

Anarcho-libertarian attorney Stephan Kinsella discusses intellectual property on This Week in Law.

A BBS user describes how Stephan Kinsella changed his mind about the compatibility of corporations with libertarianism.

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Anyone proponent of copyright, trademark or patents don't understand that it can not be done unless one kills all innovation. And no I do not call it intellectual property, the laws are civil laws and intellectual property is a newspeak expression invented by the big-media in order to for them to be able to claim theft when there is none.

I have been reading up on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a legislation powerhouse responsible for laws such as the Voter ID legislation that we are dealing with here in PA. They claim to be proponents of the free market, federalism, and limited government, but this whole group is just really creeping me out. Seems to support of transition of power, rather than a lessening of regulation. And then I saw this article supporting intellectual property rights.

Mises scholar, Dr. Robert P. Murphy, has officially thrown down the gauntlet; challenging Paul Krugman to a public debate (Keynesian vs Austrian business cycle theory) moderated by a person of mutual choosing. The challenge was issued by Murphy on October 20, 2010 on The Point.

It has become fashionable to toss copyright, patents, and trademarks—three separate and different entities involving three separate and different sets of laws—plus a dozen other laws into one pot and call it “intellectual property”. The distorting and confusing term did not become common by accident. Companies that gain from the confusion promoted it. The clearest way out of the confusion is to reject the term entirely.

Interesting private arbitration on the internet. Arbitrators include Stephan Kinsella and Jacob Huebert. This is a preview of how private justice could work in a free world.