Abolish Copyrights and Patents? A Soho Forum Debate

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it as a substantive debate on intellectual property from two libertarian angles, with Kinsella as the abolitionist voice.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

ReasonTV

Topic

intellectual property law

Format

interview

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• Anything by Stephan Kinsella is worth watching: [VIDEO] > ignore the current economic system and wellbeing of the authors and artists who produce work. I'm not ignoring it, I will freely admit that I do not care about preserving the wealth of Atherton and Beverly …

• Here is a debate on IP with two different libertarian perspective: [VIDEO] `Abolish the IP laws` side provides some pointers to related research and empirical evidence against IP.

• I thought this was a decent debate on the subject: "Abolish Copyrights and Patents? A Soho Forum Debate" ( [VIDEO] ) One thing that struck me was that both sides in that debate agreed that the current copyright/patent system was not in very good shape. …