Rethinking Intellectual Property - Mises Academy

RETHINKING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: HISTORY, THEORY, AND ECONOMICS with Stephan Kinsella Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 5 Lecture 6 Download Audios Main Texts Kinsella, Against Intellectual Property (AIP) PDF Boldrin & Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly (AIM) 1 November - 7 November WEEK 1 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN HISTORY LIVE SESSION RESOURCES Questions for the Professor 1 Forum Slides: Lecture 1 Resource Video Recording: Lecture 1 Media Player Audio Recording: Lecture 1 sound file Chat Transcript: Lecture 1 Resource SUGGESTED READINGS Legal Background: AIP, pp. 9-14 Optional Copyright Basics (US Copyright Office) PDF document Copyright overview (LII/Cornell) file Patent law overview (LII/Cornell) file Patent introductory information (Ladas & Parry) file US Patent law information (USPTO) file History: AIM, ch. 2, pp. 33-35 ("World Before Copyright" section); ch. 3, pp. 48-51 ("World Without Patent" section). AIP, pp. 9-14 Statute of Anne (Wikipedia) file Stationers' Company (Wikipedia) file History of patent law (Wikipedia) file Letters Patent (Wikipedia) file Statute of Monopolies 1624 (Wikipedia) file Optional Krummenacker, Are "Intellectual Property Rights" Justified? (Historical Origins section) file Palmer, Intellectual Property: A Non-Posnerian Law and Economics Approach (pp. 264-71) PDF document A Brief History of the Patent Law of the United States (Ladas & Parry) 8 November - 14 November WEEK 2 PROPERTY, SCARCITY, AND IDEAS LIVE SESSION RESOURCES Questions for the Professor 2 Forum Slides: Lecture 2 Resource Video Recording: Lecture 2 Media Player Audio Recording: Lecture 2 sound file Chat Transcript: Lecture 2 Resource SUGGESTED READINGS Law Defamation (Wikipedia)--beginning to Section 5 only file Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy file History Machlup, "An Economic Review of the Patent System" [pp. 2-5] PDF document Optional Machlup & Penrose, “The Patent Controversy in the Nineteenth Century” [pp. 2-6, et pass.] PDF document Frumkin, "The Origin of Patents" file Economic and Utilitarian Arguments AIP, pp. 19-23 Optional AIM, ch. 7, esp. pp. 176-201 Kinsella, There’s No Such Thing as a Free Patent file Machlup, "An Economic Review of the Patent System" [pp. 19-26 et seq., et pass.] PDF document Machlup & Edith Penrose, “The Patent Controversy in the Nineteenth Century,” pp. 7-28 PDF document Hurt & Schuchman, "The Economic Rationale of Copyright" file Deontological/Natural Rights-Based Arguments AIP, pp. 23-28 Ayn Rand Lexicon-Patents and Copyrights file Ayn Rand Lexicon-Production file Optional Dale Halling, Ayn Rand on Intellectual Property file Kinsella, Comment to "Galambos and Other Nuts" file Machlup & Edith Penrose, “The Patent Controversy in the Nineteenth Century,” pp. 7-28 PDF document Greg Perkins, Don’t Steal This Article! file Kinsella, Objectivists: “All Property is Intellectual Property” file Kinsella, Inventors are Like Unto ... GODS ... file Hurt & Schuchman, "The Economic Rationale of Copyright" file Property, Scarcity, Ideas Tucker & Kinsella, "Goods, Scarce and Nonscarce" file AIP, pp. 28-42 Optional Kinsella, "Intellectual Property and the Structure of Human Action" file Boudewijn Bouckaert, “What Is Property?" PDF document Hoppe, A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism, chs. 1 & 2 (esp. pp. 13-15, 18-30); p. 158 & p. 158n120, et pass. 15 November - 21 November WEEK 3 EXAMINING THE UTILITARIAN CASE FOR IP LIVE SESSION RESOURCES Questions for the Professor 3 Forum Slides: Lecture 3 Resource Video Recording: Lecture 3 Media Player Audio Recording: Lecture 3 sound file Chat Transcript: Lecture 3 Resource SUGGESTED READINGS ***Note: Use same readings as for Lecture 2 starting with "History"--PLUS the new material re patent trolls linked below*** Law Patent Troll email response file Patent Trolls and Empirical Thinking file Facebook Threatened by a Non-Patent Troll file OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK Once Again, the Copyright/Trademark Tail Tries to Wag the Internet Dog file Midterm Exam (DETAILS TBA) Resource Mid-Term 22 November - 28 November HOLIDAY BREAK HAPPY THANKSGIVING! 29 November - 5 December WEEK 4 RIGHTS-BASED ARGUMENTS FOR IP: CREATION AS A SOURCE OF RIGHTS LIVE SESSION RESOURCES Questions for the Professor 4 Forum Slides: Lecture 4 Resource Video Recording: Lecture 4 Media Player Audio Recording: Lecture 4 sound file Chat Transcript: Lecture 4 Resource SUGGESTED READINGS ***Note: Use same readings as for Lecture 2 starting with "Economic and Utilitarian Arguments"--PLUS the new material linked below*** Recent News & Outrages Outrages: See following recent C4SIF entries: Hershey Claims Ownership of Orange, Brown and Tan Candy Wrappings; UK High Court Ruling Implies Headlines Are Copyright; Universities attacking high schools over trademarks; EFF rescues ASL Ally’s sign-languag file Law Photography and the law file Key IP Statutes and Treaties 6 December - 12 December WEEK 5 INTEGRATING IP THEORY WITH AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS AND LIBERTARIAN THEORY LIVE SESSION RESOURCES Questions for the Professor 5 Forum Slides: Lecture 5 Resource Chat Transcript: Lecture 5 Resource Video Recording: Lecture 5 Media Player Audio Recording: Lecture 5 sound file SUGGESTED READINGS ***read the material from Week 2 starting with "Deontological/Natural Rights-Based Arguments"*** 13 December - 19 December THE FUTURE PROPOSED REFORMS; IMAGINING A POST-IP WORLD; THE FUTURE OF OPEN VS. CLOSED LIVE SESSION RESOURCES Questions for the Professor 6 Forum Slides: Lecture 6 Resource Video Recording: Lecture 6 Media Player Audio Recording: Lecture 6 sound file Chat Transcript: Lecture 6 Resource Final Exam (DETAILS TBA) Resource SUGGESTED READINGS Outrages of the Week/Recent News See recent postings on C4SIF.org (since Dec. 8) file Austrian Economics and IP Kinsella, “Mises on Intellectual Property“ file Hayek and Rothbard references in "Other Publications and Resources" section file Libertarianism and IP A Libertarian Theory of Contract: Title Transfer, Binding Promises, and Inalienability, pp. 30-33 PDF document Kinsella, "Locke on IP; Mises, Rothbard, and Rand on Creation, Production, and “Rearranging”" file IP as Contract AIP, pp. 45-55 (IP as Contract) Reputation, Trademark, and Communication Kinsella, “Reply to Van Dun: Non-Aggression and Title Transfer,” pp. 59-63 PDF document Proposed Reforms Kinsella, “Reducing the Cost of IP Law,” file Innovation in a Post-IP World Kinsella, "Innovations that Thrive without IP file Kinsella, "Funding for Creation and Innovation in an IP-Free World " file Kinsella, "The Creator-Endorsed Mark as an Alternative to Copyright" file OPTIONAL Property Title Records and Insurance in a Free Society file Final Exam