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  1. “Claude lets train run over granny so he can protect Justin Bieber’s “Baby” copyright and avoid reciting the song LYRICS!”

  2. Proponents of intellectual property frequently mix together distinct concepts: the different types of IP (patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret), along with fraud, plagiarism, stealing, piracy, contract breach, lying, dishonesty, attribution, and cre…

  3. Good!

  4. Mentioned in Wojtowicz, Libertarianizm in Polish: Stanislaw Wojtowicz, “Infoanarchizm,” libertarianizm (Jan. 22, 2016).

  5. [Property and Freedom Blog cross-post] It’s not only patents that kill; copyright kills art.

  6. PFS Cross-Post Related Economic Freedom of the World Rankings and Intellectual Property: The United States’ Bad Ranking is Even Worse Than Reported USPTO/Commerce Dept.

  7. [PFS Blog cross-post] Per Bylund called to my attention a concise anti-IP article at the Mises Institute’s Power and Market blog.

  8. [PFS Blog cross-post] I have occasionally corresponded with Deirdre McCloskey, and met the good doctor in person at FreedomFest in Rapid City, South Dakota (with my buddy Juan Carpio) in July 2021.

  9. See A Lawyer Named Atticus v.

  10. Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics, Christoph Luetge and Marianne Thejls Ziegler, eds.

  11. See: KOL497 | Debate: “Should Free Cities Protect Intellectual Property?”

  12. [PFS cross-post] Excellent recent column: Adam Haman, “Copyright’s Dirty Secret: It Was Born in the Inquisition,” Haman Nature (Jul 30, 2026).

  13. [Cross-posted at PFS] In Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged there is a famous scene when a series of irrational mistakes lead to the Taggart Comet disaster.

  14. [From my Webnote series] Ported here from Kinsella, “The Patent, Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secret Horror Files,” StephanKinsella.com (Feb. 3, 2010) As noted here, “Ayn Rand’s newsletters used to end with a “Horror File” of monstrous but true quotati…

  15. Jeffrey A.

  16. Nicholas Snow “The Three Stages of Invention,” Mises Daily (07/20/2006).

  17. Kinsella, “Revolutionary Television Design Killed by Patents,” Mises Economics Blog (5/29/2007).

  18. Jeffrey A.

  19. Interesting piece by Len D.

  20. I have pointed out before that patent and copyright law have only gotten worse over time, almost never better, except by some occasional judicial interpretations of the patent and copyright statutes,1 which is inevitable since these so-called “IP” laws gr…

  21. From PFS Blog: Fhoer: The Death of Physical Media: The Digital Panopticon and the Attack on Property From @Fhoer_here, “The Death of Physical Media,” Fhoer’s Substack (July 16, 2026): “The Digital Panopticon and the Attack on Property.”

  22. Max C.

  23. The Supreme Court just told the copyright cartels that your ISP isn’t liable when you pirate something, because the ISP didn’t tell you to do it.

  24. Per Bylund, “Intellectual Property versus the Unrealized,” Mises Wire (06/25/2026) (below).

  25. Related KOL234 | Vin Armani Show: Live from London: Kinsella vs.

  26. From Duke University Libraries blog.

  27. Just came across this old post from bionic mosquito (whose name is apparently Jonathan Goodwin, according to Danny Ajamian;1 I am not really sure) about IP and my then-upcoming debate with Werewolf Wenzel.

  28. Wojciech Gamrot, “Labor as the Basis for Intellectual Property Rights: Against Cwik,” Philosophy of Management (2026; pdf).

  29. [Cross-posted at PFS Blog] Congrats, pro-IP libertarians.

  30. Related (All by Kinsella), “Patents, Pharma, Government: The Unholy Alliance,” Brownstone Institute (April 1, 2024) The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright Tabarrok and Murphy: Why Are US Drug Prices So High?

  31. [From my Webnote series] Related The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright “Legal Scholars: Thumbs Down on Patent and Copyright” Intellectual Property’s Great Fallacy; Mark Lemley: The Very Basis Of Our Patent System… Is A Myth IP Law a…

  32. Related Kinsella, “Defamation as a Type of Intellectual Property,” in A Life in Liberty: Liber Amicorum in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, edited by Jörg Guido Hülsmann & Stephan Kinsella (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2024) The Patent, Copyright, Tradema…

  33. [From my Webnote series] Related Classificationism, Legislation, Copyright Federal Judges Aren’t Real Judges Another Problem with Legislation: James Carter v. the Field Codes The Non-Aggression Principle as a Limit on Action, Not on Property Rights; Indiv…

  34. Related Legal Scholars: Thumbs Down on Patent and Copyright Texas A&M (formerly Tulane) law professor Glynn Lunney Glynn S.

  35. Andrea Togni, “The Multiple-Homesteading Theory and the Metaphysics of Ideas and Information,” Journal of Libertarian Studies 30, no. 1 (2026): 64–86.

  36. Related: IP is Not “Not Property” It is impossible to own ideas Another way to explain the problem with IP: Resources v.

  37. In comments I suggested: IP is Not “Not Property” Intellectual Property Rights as Negative Servitudes “Conversation with an author about copyright and publishing in a free society” IP: The Property That Isn’t February 15, 2026 From “Exit7” or Exit Now (?)

  38. Gamrot, A Critique of Moore’s Intellectual Property Theory Related: Speaking at APEE IP Panel in Guatemala: as well as a pro-IP paper by Adam Moore, “Five Arguments for Intellectual Property,” who has written fairly in assessing both anti- and pro-IP argu…