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Patent Attorney Stephan Kinsella Presents On Why We Need To Rethink Intellectual Property

Posted on May 09, 2008

If you've got a spare 40 minutes to an hour, it's worth watching patent attorney Stephan Kinsella's presentation: Rethinking Intellectual Property Completely, as given in March. The video is embedded below, and it fits in nicely with my ongoing (yes, there's still plenty more) series of posts on intellectual property. It's pretty rare to see a patent attorney explain so lucidly the problems with patents (and copyrights): He does a very nice job ripping apart the property rights arguments that some, especially some libertarians, use in favor of patents, explaining why that doesn't make sens...

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