Against intellectual property? – a placeholder post

I’ve been reading Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine’s Against Intellectual Property. They identify the excesses of IP and provide a transition pathway towards a system that both rewards inventors/ writers and minimises harm.

This is a placeholder post for relevant information. I’ll form my views after further analysis.

My current (tentative) view is that 1) patents are highly problematic; 2) copyrights etc. are OK for a very few years (not more than 2 years).

==READING/ VIEWING MATERIAL===

ADDENDUM 13 MAY 2025

(VIA Stephan Kinsella)

1. https://c4sif.org/2015/11/a-selection-of-my-best-articles-and-speeches-on-ip/

2. https://c4sif.org/2012/10/the-overwhelming-empirical-case-against-patent-and-copyright/

3. https://c4sif.org/2012/10/legal-scholars-thumbs-down-on-patent-and-copyright/

4. https://c4sif.org/2012/09/boldrin-and-levine-the-case-against-patents/

5. https://mises.org/mises-daily/fight-against-intellectual-property

ADDENDUM 12  MAY 2025

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===ORIGINAL===

1. AGAINST INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 

The Case Against Intellectual Property by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine [PDF]

Ideas Are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property

The Libertarian Case Against Intellectual Property Rights by Roderick T. Long

Against intellectual property

Our Intellectual Property Laws Are Out of Control

Intellectual Property Law Works, Until It Is Stretched

2. IN FAVOUR OF IP

The Morality of Intellectual Property Rights

GENERAL