Opdateret: Linket virker tilsyneladende ikke, men hos mig er videoen embedded her på 180grader.dk. Anyway, her er et link, der meget gerne skulle virke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQeaVBIMnoI
Stephan Kinsella, libertarianer og jurist, er nok kendt af mange liberale for sin argumentation imod immaterielle rettigheder. Denne tale fra november om netop det præsenterer han selv således:
In this talk I provide an overview of the nature of patent and copyright, followed by a discussion of the nature and purpose of law and property rights in a world of scarcity. I argue that property rights apply to scarce resources only, to permit such resources to be used peacefully, productively, and cooperatively as a means of action. However, property rights make no sense are in fact perverse and undermine genuine property rights when the law attempt to apply them to information, ideas, and knowledge. Property rights must be granted in scarce resources and only in scarce resources if we are to have prosperity, freedom, and progress in science.
In fact, state IP rights are not genuine property rights, but are instead neo-mercantilist monopoly grants of privilege that protect favored recipients from competition. This enriches the patentees and copyright holders, and the state, but at the expense of consumers and competitors.
I also provide an overview of the history of opposition to IP law, identifying four key historical phases beginning around 1850.
I conclude the talk by observing that IP reform cannot work; the only solution is complete abolition of patent and copyright.
