Against Intellectual Property + Supplementary Material

My monograph Against Intellectual Property (AIP) was first published as a long article in the Journal of Libertarian Studies in 2001. It was based on “The Legitimacy of Intellectual Property,” a paper presented at the Law and Economics panel, Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama (March 25, 2000). It was awarded the Mises Institute‘s O.P. Alford III Prize (2) for scholarly article published during 2001–2002 that best advances libertarian scholarship, at the Mises Institute’s Eighth Austrian Scholars Conference, March 16, 2002, in Auburn, Alabama. It was published as a monograph by the Mises Institute in 2008 and again by Laissez Faire Books in 2012. AIP has also been translated into at least ten languages.

Note: A streamlined version of the arguments in AIP may be found in “Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society,”¹ and additional arguments based on writing published after AIP are found in “Against Intellectual Property After Twenty Years: Looking Back and Looking Forward.”² My forthcoming chapter “The Problem with Intellectual Property” is the most recent and comprehensive presentation of my case against IP. I plan a future comprehensive treatment of this topic in my a future book, Copy This Book: The Case for Abolishing Intellectual Property (forthcoming 2027).

Files

• LFB Edition 2012
  • Introduction and Jeff Tucker’s Editorial Preface, and also his Column introducing the book
  • epub | mobi | pdf
• Mises Edition 2008
  • Amazon (kindle and paper)
  • HTML | large print version | PDF | epub | Scribd | Mises.org files
• JLS Version 2001: N. Stephan Kinsella, “Against Intellectual Property,” J. Libertarian Stud. 15, no. 2 (Spring 2001): 1–53
• Translations into other languages, including Czech, French, Georgian, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and Persian (forthcoming)
  • Roberta Modugno’s Preface for the Italian edition
  • Marchetti: Against Intellectual Property: An Enlightening Essay (French edition)
  • Foreword (Prólogo) by Mariano Bas Uribe (Spanish edition)
• Audio versions

In the Introduction to the LFB edition, I link to the selected supplementary material contained on this page. As the  Introduction explains:

Since I wrote in AIP in 2001, I and others have written a good deal more on the topic of so-called intellectual property law, as it has become a greater and more apparent threat to property rights, freedom of expression, and the Internet. I am in the process of writing a new book on IP, tentatively entitled Copy This Book, taking into account more recent arguments, evidence, and examples. In the meantime, readers of AIP may find useful the list of selected writings and talks that supplement the arguments made in AIP, which I have compiled in my C4SIF blogpost “Selected Supplementary Material for Against Intellectual Property” (March 1, 2012), and which will be updated from time to time. For further information see various works linked at www.c4sif.org/resources and material posted going forward at www.c4sif.org.

Review: (from Twitter)

Sebastian Wang, “Review of Against Intellectual Property by N. Stephan Kinsella,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (March 25, 2025):

Stephan Kinsella’s Against Intellectual Property is one of those books that makes you wonder why you ever thought copyright and patents made sense in the first place. It’s a short, no-nonsense attack on the entire idea of intellectual property (IP), and it doesn’t just poke holes in the arguments for it—it shreds them.

Most people, even hardcore free-market types, assume IP is just part of capitalism. It protects creators, rewards innovation, and keeps the economy moving, right? Kinsella’s answer is a firm no. IP, he argues, isn’t about protecting property at all. It’s just another government-backed monopoly that benefits the already powerful and gets in the way of real innovation.

The book’s main argument is simple but powerful: property rights exist to deal with scarcity. Land, food, and cars are scarce—if one person takes them, someone else goes without. But ideas? Ideas aren’t scarce at all. If I copy your invention or your book, I haven’t taken anything from you—you still have it.

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For a critical review, see J.C. Lester: “Against Against Intellectual Property: A Short Refutation of Meme Communism”.

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Links to the supplementary material and readings are provided below. Material below is by me unless indicated otherwise.

Selected Supplementary Material for Against Intellectual Property

 Introductory Works

• Kinsella, “The Problem with Intellectual Property“
• Kinsella, You Can’t Own Ideas: Essays on Intellectual Property (Papinian Press, 2023)
• Kinsella, ed., The Anti-IP Reader: Free Market Critiques of Intellectual Property (Papinian Press, 2023)
• “The Case Against IP: A Concise Guide,” Mises Daily (Sep. 4, 2009)
• Sheldon Richman, “Patent Nonsense,” The American Conservative (Jan. 1, 2012)
• Jacob H. Huebert, “The Fight against Intellectual Property,” from Libertarianism Today (Praeger, 2010).
• “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (Nov. 17, 2009)
• Jeff Tucker, “Ideas, Free and Unfree: A Book Commentary,” Mises Daily (March 18, 2011) (commentaries on Boldrin and Levine’s Against Intellectual Monopoly)
• Introduction to Against Intellectual Property, Laissez Faire Books (2012) (files linked above)
• A Selection of my Best Articles and Speeches on IP (Nov. 30, 2015)
• Hello! You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Intellectual Property 

Media

• “Why Intellectual Property is not Genuine Property,” 3^rd Adam Smith Forum, Moscow, Russia (Nov. 12, 2011) (edited transcript)
• “Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics,” Mises Academy course (March-April, 2011)
• Lecture 5 on “Intellectual Property,” “Libertarian Legal Theory,” Mises Academy course (Jan.-March 2011)
• “Intellectual Property and Economic Development,” Mises University 2011 (July 27, 2011)
• “Obama’s Patent Reform: Improvement or Continuing Calamity?,” Mises Academy webinar (Sep. 23, 2011)
• “SOPA, Piracy, Censorship and the End of the Internet? Kinsella and Stefan Molyneux on Freedomain Radio” (Dec. 21, 2011)
• “Intellectual Property Law and Policy,” Symposium: “Plain Meaning in Context: Can Law Survive its Own Language?”, New York University School of Law/Journal of Law and Liberty (February 18, 2011; video online here)
• “How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism,” Mises Institute Supporters’ Summit 2010 (Oct. 9 2010)
• “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” Mises University 2009 (July 30, 2009)
• “The Intellectual Property Quagmire, or, The Perils of Libertarian Creationism,” Austrian Scholars Conference 2008 (March 13, 2008)

Books and Articles

• Michele Boldrin and David Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly (2008)
• “Defamation Law and Reputation Rights as a Type of Intellectual Property” (Sept. 21, 2024)
• “The Great IP Debate of 1983,” Mises Daily (July 18, 2011)
• “How to Slow Economic Progress,” Mises Daily (June 1, 2011)
• “Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright,” Economic Notes No. 113 (Libertarian Alliance, Jan. 18, 2011)
• “Absurd Arguments for IP” (Dec. 10, 2010)
• “The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (July 28, 2010)
• “Ideas are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property: or, How Libertarians Went Wrong,” Mises Daily (Nov. 23, 2010)
• “Goods, Scarce and Nonscarce,” Mises Daily (with Jeff Tucker, Aug. 25, 2010)
• “Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” Mises Daily (Nov. 17, 2009)
• “Radical Patent Reform Is Not on the Way,” Mises Daily (Oct. 1, 2009)
• “Reducing the Cost of IP Law,” Mises Daily (Jan. 10, 2010)
• “There’s No Such Thing as a Free Patent,” Mises Daily (Mar. 7, 2005)

Blog Posts (from C4SIF or StephanKinsella.com unless specified otherwise)

• Intellectual Property versus Intellectual Property Rights (Jan. 11, 2025)
• “KOL421 | The Local Maximum with Max Sklar: Ep. 297 – The Fallacy of Intellectual Property” (Oct. 26, 2023) (on why trade secret law should also be abolished)
• “Patents and Pharmaceuticals” (May 17, 2023)
• FDA and Patent Reform: A Modest Proposal (May 5, 2023)
• A Recurring Fallacy: ‘IP is a Purer Form of Property than Material Resources’” (Aug. 7, 2022)
• “Dean Baker: Patents Cost Almost $1 Trillion A Year” (July 12, 2022)
• “Benjamin Tucker and the Great Nineteenth Century IP Debates in Liberty Magazine” (July 11, 2022)
• “How Copyright Law Suppressed Innovation” (July 5, 2022)
• “Madison Lied about Patent and Copyright” (July 4, 2022)
• “IP Law and “Market Failure”” (June 28, 2022)
• Anti-IP Youtube Videos: A Selection (June 27, 2022)
• IP Answer Man: Death Toll of Patent Law (April 11, 2022)
• On Conflictability and Conflictable Resources, StephanKinsella.com (Jan. 31, 2022)
• Boldrin & Levine on Covid-19, Vaccines, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and Patents (Dec. 17, 2021)
• Tabarrok, Cowen, and Douglass North on Patents (March 11, 2021)
• First Amendment Defense Act of 2021 (Jan. 17, 2021)
• No, Libertarians, We Should NOT Abolish the CDA §230 and DMCA Safe Harbors!
• Amend the LP Platform to Abolish IP! (Dec. 22, 2020)
• The “If you own something, that implies that you can sell it; if you sell something, that implies you must own it first” Fallacies, StephanKinsella.com (June 2, 2018)
• Rothbard on the Main Fallacy of our Time: Marx’s Labor Theory of Value (Dec. 26, 2016)
• Independent Institute on The “Benefits” of Intellectual Property Protection (Feb 16, 2016)
• Classical Liberals, Libertarians, Anarchists and Others on Intellectual Property (Oct. 6, 2015)
• Pro-IP “Anarchists” and anti-IP Patent Attorneys (April 14, 2015)
• The Difficulty and Complexity of Patent Law (July 24, 2014)
• Molinari (and Tucker, and Mutualists) on IP (April 8, 2014)
• Are Patents and Copyrights “Monopolies”? (Aug. 13, 2013)
• Locke’s Big Mistake: How the Labor Theory of Property Ruined Political Theory: Transcript (April 13, 2013)
• Trademark Ain’t So Hot Either…; Trademark and Fraud; Discussion with George Reisman (Jan. 13, 2013)
• “Oh yeah? How would like it if I copy and publish your book under my name?!”: On IP Hypocrisy and Calling the Smartasses’ Bluffs” (Jan. 3, 2013)
• Mike Masnick, “RIAA Lawyers Trying To Rewrite History Of Copyright Clause Through Shoddy Scholarship And Selective Quotation,” Techdirt (Dec. 20, 2012)
• Copyright Shill’s Defense of the Status Quo (Nov. 20, 2012)
• Heroic and Radical Republican Study Committee Copyright Reform Proposal Retracted under Pressure from MPAA and RIAA (Nov. 18, 2012)
• “Legal Scholars: Thumbs Down on Patent and Copyright” (Oct. 23, 2012)
• “The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright” (Oct. 23, 2012)
• Intellectual Nonsense: Fallacious Arguments for IP (Libertopia 2012) (Oct. 13, 2012)
• “Copyright is very sticky!” (Oct. 3, 2012)
• “Tabarrok: Patent Policy on the Back of a Napkin” (Sept. 20, 2012)
• Does Cato’s New Objectivist CEO John Allison Presage Retrogression on IP? (Aug. 27, 2012)
• Mossoff: Patent Law Really Is as Straightforward as Real Estate Law (Aug. 17, 2012)
• Libertarian Sci-Fi Authors and Copyright versus Libertarian IP Abolitionists
  (June 14, 2012)
• USPTO/Commerce Dept. Distortions: “IP Contributes $5 Trillion and 40 Million Jobs to Economy” (April 20, 2012)
• Patent Lawyers Who Don’t Toe the Line Should Be Punished! (April 12, 2012)
• “Copyright and Free Trade; Patents and Censorship” (Feb. 29, 2012)
• Rothbard on Lawyers, Accountants, Locks and Safes–and patent lawyers? (Feb. 29, 2012)
• Are Creative Commons Licenses Even Enforceable? (Feb. 12, 2012)
• “The Surprising History of Copyright: Karl Fogel at Google Tech Talks” (Feb. 7, 2012)
• Yet another Randian recants on IP (Feb. 1, 2012)
• “Death by Copyright-IP Fascist Police State Acronym” (Jan. 30, 2012)
• “SOPA is the Symptom, Copyright is the Disease: The SOPA Wakeup Call to Abolish Copyright,” The Libertarian Standard (Jan. 24, 2012)
• “Conversation with an author about copyright and publishing in a free society” (Jan. 23, 2012)
• “Where does IP Rank Among the Worst State Laws?” (Jan. 20, 2012)
• Stop calling patent and copyright “property”; stop calling copying “theft” and “piracy” (Jan. 9, 2012)
• The “Productivity” of Patent Brainstorming (Jan. 4, 2012)
• “Should Copyright Be Allowed to Override Speech Rights?” (Dec. 20, 2011)
• Thomas Jefferson’s Proposal to Limit the Length of Patent and Copyright in the Bill of Rights (Dec. 1, 2011)
• “Copyright is Unconstitutional” (Nov. 27, 2011)
• “Patent vs. Copyright: Which is Worse?” (Nov. 5, 2011)
• Was the most fervent believer in intellectual property rights an IP thief? (Christian Science Monitor, 2011) (Oct. 28, 2011)
• “Classificationism, Legislation, Copyright” (Oct. 25, 2011)
• “Abolish antitrust law and the real monopoly: the state,” StephanKinsella.com Blog (Oct. 23, 2011)
• “The relation between the non-aggression principle and property rights: a response to Division by Zer0,” Mises Economics Blog (Oct. 4, 2011)
• “The Microsoft-Apple Gesture Oligopoly” (Oct. 4, 2011)
• “Classifying Patent and Copyright Law as ‘Property’: So What?” (Oct. 4, 2011)
• “Controls breed controls, Monopolies breed monopolies” (Sep. 28, 2011)
• “Patent Trolls Cost The Economy Half A Trillion Dollars since 1990” (Sep. 20, 2011)
• “Ayn Rand Finally Right about the First-to-File US Patent System” (Sep. 9, 2011)
• “Copyright Censorship versus Free Speech and Human Rights; Excessive Fines and the Eighth Amendment” (Sep. 6, 2011)
• Rothbard on Mercantilism and State “Patents of Monopoly” (Aug. 29, 2011)
• Ayn Rand’s Anti Dog-Eat-Dog Rule and Intellectual Property (Aug. 24, 2011)
• We are all copyright criminals: John Tehranian’s “Infringement Nation” (Aug. 22, 2011)
• “The Patent Defense League and Defensive Patent Pooling” (Aug. 18, 2011)
• Mark Lemley: The Very Basis Of Our Patent System… Is A Myth (July 29, 2011)
• “Intellectual Property Advocates Hate Competition”  (July 19, 2011)
• Tom Bell: Copyright Erodes Property?  (July 15, 2011)
• “Price Controls, Antitrust, and Patents” (July 10, 2011)
• Milton Friedman (and Rothbard) on the Distorting and Skewing Effect of Patents (July 3, 2011)
• “Are Patents Needed to Make Up for FDA Kneecapping?” (July 2, 2011)
• Intellectual Property Rights as Negative Servitudes (June 23, 2011)
• “Apple vs. Microsoft: Which Benefits more from Intellectual Property?” (June 21, 2011)
• On Patents, Hoover Sucks (June 16, 2011)
• Optimal Patent and Copyright Term Length (June 16, 2011)
• “Patent Cross-Licensing Creates Barriers to Entry” (June 14, 2011)
• “Antitrust vs. Trademark Law” (June 13, 2011)
• The Evil of Patenting Food and Seeds (June 13, 2011)
• On the Danger of Metaphors in Scientific Discourse, StephanKinsella.com (June 12, 2011)
• “Masnick on the Horrible PROTECT IP Act: The Coming IPolice State” (June 2, 2011)
• “Copyright and the End of Internet Freedom” (May 10, 2011)
• The Economist on the American Patent System (May 8, 2011)
• Are anti-IP patent attorneys hypocrites? (April 22, 2011)
• Cordato and Kirzner on Intellectual Property (April 21, 2011)
• “Objectivist Law Prof Mossoff on Copyright; or, the Misuse of Labor, Value, and Creation Metaphors,” Mises Economics Blog (April 19, 2011)
• “The Four Historical Phases of IP Abolitionism”(April 13, 2011)
• “Let’s Make Copyright Opt-OUT” (April 12, 2011)
• “Hume on Intellectual Property and the Problematic “Labor” Metaphor” (April 9, 2011)
• Where did the patent term come from? (April 4, 2011)
• “Prior User Rights and Patent Reform” (April 1, 2011)
• “The Origins of Libertarian IP Abolitionism” (April 1, 2011)
• “Patent Reform is Here! O Joy!” (Mar. 23, 2011)
• “The Velvet Elvis and Other Trademark Absurdities” (Mar. 20, 2011)
• “Types of Intellectual Property” (March 4, 2011)
• Nina Paley on This Week in Law: Problems with Copyright (Feb. 14, 2011)
• “Defensive Patent Publishing” (Feb. 4, 2011)
• Patent Lawyers Who Oppose Patent Law (Feb. 3, 2011)
• Intellectual Property’s Great Fallacy (Feb. 2, 2011)
• “How to Improve Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Law” (Feb. 1, 2011)
• Objectivist Greg Perkins on Intellectual Property (Jan. 12, 2011)
• Query for Schulman on Patents and Logorights (Jan. 12, 2011)
• Intellectual Poverty (Jan. 6, 2011)
• Patent Shills want to make patents “incontestable” (Dec. 30, 2010)
• Knowledge is Power (Dec. 28, 2010)
• “Against Net Neutrality” (Dec. 20, 2010)
• Renaming Intellectual Property (Dec. 14, 2010)
• Spiers: Why no Intellectual Property Rights–China and Business (Dec. 10, 2010)
• A “Patent Stimulus” to End the Recession? (Dec. 10, 2010)
• Patent Lawyers Who Don’t Toe the Line Should Be Punished! (Dec. 10, 2010)
• “The Forgotten Costs of the Patent System” (Dec. 6, 2010)
• “Intellectual Properganda” (Dec. 6, 2010)
• “‘The’ Purpose of Patent Law” (Dec. 6, 2010)
• “IP Rights as Monopolistic Grants to Overcome the Public Goods Problem” (Dec. 4, 2010)
• “Funding for Creation and Innovation in an IP-Free World,” Mises Economics Blog (Dec. 1, 2010)
• The Effects of Patent and Copyright on Hollywood Movies, Mises blog (Nov. 28, 2010)
• Are Patents “Monopolies”? (Nov. 27, 2010)
• “The Mountain of IP Legislation” (Nov. 24, 2010)
• “State Antitrust (anti-monopoly) law versus state IP (pro-monopoly) law,” Mises Economics Blog (Nov. 12, 2010)
• Hsieh and Mossoff on IP and Sewing Machines, Mises Economics Blog (Oct. 31, 2010)
• Intellectual Property as Socialistic “Human Rights,” Mises blog (Oct. 25, 2010)
• “Costs of the Patent System Revisited,” Mises Economics Blog (Sep. 29, 2010)
• Locke on IP; Mises, Rothbard, and Rand on Creation, Production, and ‘Rearranging’, C4SIF (Sep. 29, 2010) (with links to Mises version)
• Succinct Criticism of Utilitarianism and Libertarian Creationism, StephanKinsella.com (Sep. 27, 2010)
• Trademark and Goats-on-the-Roof Bans (Sep. 17, 2010)
• The Superiority of the Roman Law: Scarcity, Property, Locke and Libertarianism (Mises, Aug. 17, 2010)
• Reply to Adam Thierer on Net Neutrality and IP (Aug. 15, 2010)
• “Innovations that Thrive without IP,” StephanKinsella.com (Aug. 9, 2010)
• “Leveraging IP,” Mises Economics Blog (Aug. 1, 2010)
• “Examples of Ways Content Creators Can Profit Without Intellectual Property,” StephanKinsella.com (July 28, 2010)
• “The Creator-Endorsed Mark as an Alternative to Copyright,” Mises Economics Blog (July 15, 2010)
• Locke, Smith, Marx; the Labor Theory of Property and the Labor Theory of Value; and Rothbard, Gordon, and Intellectual Property (June 23, 2010)
• IP Means you MUST Buy that iPhone (April 26, 2010)
• Gene Patent Absurdity (April 13, 2010)
• An Objectivist IP Argument for Taxation, StephanKinsella.com (Feb. 24, 2010)
• “The Patent, Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secret Horror Files” (Feb. 3, 2010)
• Shughart’s Defense of IP (Jan. 29, 2010)
• “Libertarian Patent Lawyer Defends Patent Law” (Jan. 23, 2010)
• “The Non-Aggression Principle as a Limit on Action, Not on Property Rights,” StephanKinsella.com Blog (Jan. 22, 2010)
• “IP and Aggression as Limits on Property Rights: How They Differ,” StephanKinsella.com Blog (Jan. 22, 2010)
• “The “Productivity” of Patent Brainstorming,” StephanKinsella.com Blog (Jan. 7, 2010)
• Intellectual Property and the Structure of Human Action, StephanKinsella.com (Jan. 6, 2010)
• IP: The Objectivists Strike Back! (Dec. 27, 2009)
• Cato on Drug Reimportation; Cato Tugs Stray Back Onto the Reservation; and Other Posts (Dec. 23, 2009)
• “Aggression” versus “Harm” in Libertarianism, Mises Blog (Dec. 16, 2009)
• Tom Paine, Copyright Statist (Dec. 11, 2009)
• Objectivists: “All Property is Intellectual Property” (Dec. 9, 2009)
• Copyright Reincarnation (Dec. 7, 2009)
• An Objectivist Recants on IP (Dec. 4, 2009)
• “IP and Artificial Scarcity,” Mises Blog (Dec. 3, 2009)
• “Common Misconceptions about Plagiarism and Patents: A Call for an Independent Inventor Defense,” Mises Economics Blog (Nov. 21, 2009)
• Leftist Attacks on the Google Book Settlement (Nov. 20, 2009)
• “Rand on IP, Owning “Values”, and ‘Rearrangement Rights’,” Mises Economics Blog (Nov. 16, 2009)
• Thick and Thin Libertarians on IP and Open Source (Oct. 23, 2009)
• Eben Moglen and Leftist Opposition to Intellectual Property, StephanKinsella.com (Oct. 10, 2009)
• Is It So Crazy For A Patent Attorney To Think Patents Harm Innovation? (Oct. 1, 2009)
• Patent Lawyers Who Don’t Toe the Line Should Be Punished! (Sep. 29, 2009)
• Patents: Horizontal vs Vertical Innovation (Aug. 24, 2009)
• The Most Libertarian Patent Work (July 14, 2009)
• Why Objectivists Hate Anarchy (Hint: IP)  (Aug. 17, 2009)
• “Are Patents ‘Monopolies’?,” Mises Economics Blog (July 13, 2009)
• An Anti-Patent Patent Attorney? Oh my Gawd (July 12, 2009)
• On J. Neil Schulman’s Logorights (July 2, 2009)
• “Yet Another Study Finds Patents Do Not Encourage Innovation” (July 2, 2009)
• Reason [and Cathy Young]: Copyright Should Last Half A Century (June 25, 2009)
• Stallman: An Internet-Connectivity Tax to Compensate Artists and Authors
  (June 19, 2011)
• Imagining the Fate of Copyright in a Future World (May 20, 2009)
• My EETimes Letter on Protecting the Patent System (April 29, 2009)
• “There are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property” (Feb. 24, 2009)
• “Trademark versus Copyright and Patent, or: Is All IP Evil?“, Mises Economics Blog (Feb. 11, 2009)
• Hayek, IP, and Knowledge (Jan. 16, 2009)
• , Mises Economics Blog (Dec. 19, 2008)
• Masnick: Creation Does Not Equal Ownership, Techdirt (Dec. 2, 2008)
• $30 Billion Taxfunded Innovation Contracts: The ‘Progressive-Libertarian’ Solution,” Against Monopoly (Nov. 23, 2008)
• Cory Doctorow on Giving Away Free E-Books and the Morality of “Copying” (Sep. 16, 2008)
• Libertarian Favors $80 Billion Annual Tax-Funded “Medical Innovation Prize Fund”, Mises Blog (Aug. 12, 2008)
• Inventors are Like Unto …. GODS….. (Aug. 7, 2008)
• An Open Letter to Leftist Opponents of Intellectual Property: On IP and the Support of the State, Mises Blog (Aug. 4, 2008)
• Regret: The Glory of State Law (July 31, 2008)
• “When Antitrust and Patents Collide (Rambus v. FTC),” Mises Economics Blog (June 15, 2008)
• Libertarian Creationism (April 4, 2008)
• Live by the Sword…, Mises Blog (Dec. 18, 2007)
• “Trademark and Fraud,” Mises Economics Blog (Nov. 7, 2007)
• Pilon on Patents, Mises Blog (Sep. 28, 2007)
• What are the Costs of the Patent System? (Mises, 2007) (Sep. 27, 2007)
• Epson, Ink, Patents (April 9, 2007)
• Re: Patents and Utilitarian Thinking Redux: Stiglitz on using Prizes to Stimulate Innovation, Mises Blog (Dec. 28, 2006)
• Patent Attorney Admission (Dec. 22, 2006)
• Owning Thoughts and Labor [Rothbard and Hoppe on 1988 Panel], Mises Blog (Dec. 11, 2006)
• Intellectual Property and Think Tank Corruption (Oct. 17, 2006)
• Richard Epstein on “The Structural Unity of Real and Intellectual Property”, Mises (Oct. 4, 2006)
• Patents and Utilitarian Thinking Redux: Stiglitz on using Prizes to Stimulate Innovation (Sept. 19, 2006)
• Miracle–An Honest Patent Attorney! (Sep. 7, 2006)
• Patent Trolls and Empirical Thinking (Sep. 7, 2006)
• “The Schizo Feds: Patent Monopolies and the FTC,” Mises Economics Blog (Aug. 27, 2006)
• Hoppe and Intellectual Property: On Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (July 31, 2006)
• “A Patent Success Story” (June 26, 2006) [Archive version–to convert]
• Patent and Penicillin, Mises Blog (June 22, 2006)
• Rand and Marx (June 19, 2006)
• Drug Patents and Welfare (May 31, 2006)
• “Thoughts on Intellectual Property, Scarcity, Labor-ownership, Metaphors, and Lockean Homesteading” (May 26, 2006)
• Objectivists on IP (May 3, 2006)
• The Schizophrenic State (Jan. 13, 2006)
• “IP vs. Antitrust,” Mises Economics Blog (Sep. 8, 2005)
• Rothbard and Galambosians, LewRockwell.com (March 8, 2005)
• Patents and Utilitarian Thinking, Mises blog (Feb. 25, 2005)
• Cato, Lessig, and Intellectual Property (Jan. 31, 2005)
• “The Morality of Acquiring and Enforcing Patents” (Oct. 1, 2003)
• Cato Tugs Stray Back Onto the Reservation (July 29, 2003)
• Letter to an Anonymous Patent Attorney  (Jan 25, 2002)
• “Letter on Intellectual Property Rights,” IOS Journal 5, no. 2 (June 1995), pp. 12-13

1. Kinsella, “Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society,” in You Can’t Own Ideas: Essays on Intellectual Property (Papinian Press, 2023); also included in Kinsella, Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023). [↩]
2. Also in You Can’t Own Ideas and Legal Foundations of a Free Society. [↩]