Intellectual Property: A First Principles Debate [POLICYbrief]

Why does the government protect patents, copyrights, and trademarks? Should it? Kristen Osenga, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, and Stephan Kinsella, author of Against Intellectual Property, explore the concept of intellectual property and debate its effect on society as a whole.

Learn more about Kristen Osenga: https://law.richmond.edu/faculty/kosenga/

Learn more about Stephan Kinsella: http://www.stephankinsella.com/
Follow Stephan Kinsella: https://twitter.com/NSKinsella
@NSKinsella

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Differing Views:

Libertarianism.org: Libertarian Views of Intellectual Property
https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/libertarian-views-intellectual-property-rothbard-tucker-spooner-rand

A 21st Century Copyright Office: The Conservative Case for Reform
https://judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Center-for-the-Economics-of-the-Internet-at-the-Hudson-Institute.pdf

Mises Institute: The Case Against IP
https://mises.org/library/case-against-ip-concise-guide

Law and Liberty: Why Intellectual Property Rights? A Lockean Justification
http://www.libertylawsite.org/liberty-forum/why-intellectual-property-rights-a-lockean-justification/

The Constitutional Foundations of Intellectual Property
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2302869

Harvard Law: Theories of Intellectual Property
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/tfisher/iptheory.html

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