KOL022 | “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society, Lecture 5: Intellectual Property and Related” (Mises Academy, 2011)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 022. This is lecture 5 (of 6) of my 2011 Mises Academy course “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society.” I'll release the remaining lectures here in the podcast in upcoming days. This lecture's topic is "Intellectual Property and Related," and discusses: Overview of types of IP Origins of IP The nature of property rights, role of scarcity, and the function of the market. Pro-IP arguments: utilitarian and deontological Defamation Free Speech and Property Rights (Rothbard) Proposed Reforms Imagining a post-IP world