Comments on: Bye-Bye for IP

By: Roderick

Roderick — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:51:04 +0000

Great is Diana of the Ephesians! Or so I hear.

By: Stephan Kinsella

Stephan Kinsella — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:42:44 +0000

Going to Bodrum for Hoppe’s PFS — http://www.Propertyandfreedom.org meeting. While there I will go to Ephesus, see Temple of Artemis etc, and also to the Greek Island of Kos, and see Hippocrates’ “Plane” tree.

By: Roderick

Roderick — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:27:21 +0000

Oh great! Another friend was just emailing me from a trip through Spain, seeing Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Granada, Cordoba, and Seville. And now you!

What are you seeing?

By: Stephan Kinsella

Stephan Kinsella — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:42:26 +0000

I’m going to Greece in about 10 days.

Jealous?

By: Roderick

Roderick — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:38:37 +0000

Roderick, I think we tied.

Too bad I didn’t make it to the patent office first.

By: Stephan Kinsella

Stephan Kinsella — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:18:02 +0000

Roderick, I think we tied. I think my first published piece against IP was in 1995 as well– in IOS Journal: http://www.stephankinsella.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/IOS_IP.pdf . There may have been something earlier, not sure; the next thing was 1998 for a bar journal — http://www.stephankinsella.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/kinsella_ip-legit-2000.pdf

The 1995 publication followed on the heels of my taking the patent bar in 1994. I had been thinking about IP for a long time, since 1987 or so at least, since Rand’s defense of IP bugged me. I started thinking about it harder in 1992 or so, when I started practicing IP law.

Good times.

By: Rad Geek

Rad Geek — Sun, 23 May 2010 06:22:00 +0000

Roderick, Thanks for the plug! I actually make roughly the same point in the specific context of Intellectual Monopoly laws in Counter-Economic Optimism.

By: Roderick

Roderick — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:30:25 +0000

Legislatively we may be farther away, but agorically we're arguably closer. See Charles's similar point about immigration policy here (at the section beginning "When anarchists participate in compromise efforts").

By: ivan

ivan — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:44:36 +0000

You are right of course, but the point is, that policy is tending in the direction of strengthening intellectual monopoly rights. The piece dates from 1995 and fifteen years later we appear to be further away from the goal of abolishing IPR’s. Many still seem to believe that patents and copyrights are worthwhile, both economically and ethically. It’s all a question about tactics now: we know we are right, but how in earth are we going to win this battle?

By: Roderick

Roderick — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:07:42 +0000

No, I talk about that here.