KOL173 | “Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics: Lecture 2: Overview of Justifications for IP; Property, Scarcity, and Ideas” (Mises Academy, 2011)
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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 173. This is the second of six lectures of my 2011 Mises Academy course "Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics" (originally presented Tuesdays, Mar. 22-April 26, 2011). The first lecture may be found in KOL172. Youtube and slides for this lecture are provided below. The course and other matters are discussed in further detail at KOL172. The “suggested readings” for the entire course are provided in the notes for KOL172. Transcript below. Lecture 2: OVERVIEW OF JUSTIFICATIONS FOR IP; PROPERTY, SCARCITY, AND IDEAS SUGGESTED READING MATERIAL: See the notes for KOL172. ❧ Transcript Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics—Lecture 2: Overview of Justifications for IP; Property, Scarcity, and Ideas Stephan Kinsella Mises Academy, March 29, 2011 00:00:01 STEPHAN KINSELLA: … check today. If there are any that I’ve missed, please alert me, and we can talk about them later, or I’ll answer them after the class. Okay, so I think my name is showing up correctly now because I’m just another panelist with you guys, and Danny is Mises Institute. So Danny, can you hear me? Are we good to go? Okay, I uploaded the slide myself. That worked okay. 00:00:29 Okay, good evening everybody, glad to be back, and let’s resume with the talk, and we’re going to pick up where we left off if I can find – there we go. Okay, so this week I’m going to do something I did last class, which worked out pretty good. I mean I have this blog at – it’s C4SIF. Let me see if I can turn on the laser pointer actually. I had trouble last time. It’s not going to let me do it. Never mind. I have a blog or a site called C4SIF.org, and I post regularly various IP-related items. 00:01:12 There’s probably one about every maybe two or three a day. There’s so many things to blog about, so that’s a good way to keep up with what’s going on. And so in the beginning of each class, I have an Outrages of the Week, and I just kind of go through quickly some of the things I posted in the last week or two of the course actually. It’s hard to keep up because there’s so many things going on. So anyway, like I said, it’s C4SIF.org, which is a think tank I started, or really just kind of a private research foundation I started last year. It means Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom. But basically it’s about getting rid of IP law so we have innovative freedom. 00:01:54 The New Grave Robbers – I’ll just go through a few of these right here. The New Grave Robbers is about – let me see if I can turn on this laser pointer somehow. It’s not letting me do it. I’m not sure where it is on here. Anyway, so the New Grave Robbers is about a type of IP right called the right of publicity, which is – it’s called grave robbers because it’s lasting past the death of the famous person in some American states. And it’s being used more and more. It’s called a right of publicity or an identity right, and one recent case is the Tolkien estate. It’s trying to block a novel that uses Tolkien as a character. So this could threaten historical fiction, so this is an example of one type of IP law can actually restrict free speech and free expression. 00:02:52 Here’s a blog post about recent IP cartel advances. This was – a lot of these are reposts of other people’s blogs. But this is about how in Europe there’s steam for motion against agitation for changing the law and adding new IP rights and strengthening IP law even in Sweden and in Italy and in France. So you can browse that later. We have a lot to go through, so I’m just going to go through some of these quickly. You can read these blogs. These are all linked,