KOL172 | “Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics: Lecture 1: History and Law” (Mises Academy, 2011)

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 172. This is the first of 6 lectures of my 2011 Mises Academy course "Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics" (Tuesdays, Mar. 22-April 26, 2011; discussed on the Mises Blog in Study with Kinsella Online and in Rethinking Intellectual Property: Kinsella’s Mises Academy Online Course). I’ll release the remaining lectures here in the podcast feed in upcoming days. The slides for the first lecture of this course are provided below, as are the “suggested readings” for the course. The course and other matters are discussed in further detail here. I also include in this first of the 6 podcasts for this series an introductory video for the course followed by the audio and slides for all 6 lectures. The "suggested readings" for each lecture are appended to the end of this post. I'll include individual audio and slides for the following podcasts in this series. Introductory video from the Mises Blog post Kinsella Can Be Your Professor: Lecture 1: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN HISTORY Lecture 2: OVERVIEW OF JUSTIFICATIONS FOR IP; PROPERTY, SCARCITY, AND IDEAS Lecture 3: EXAMINING THE UTILITARIAN CASE FOR IP Lecture 4: IP STATUTES AND TREATIES; OVERVIEW OF JUSTIFICTIONS FOR IP; PROPERTY, SCARCITY AND IDEAS; RIGHTS-BASED ARGUMENTS FOR IP: CREATION AS A SOURCE OF RIGHTS Lecture 5: PROPERTY, SCARCITY, AND IDEAS; EXAMINING RIGHTS-BASED ARGUMENTS FOR IP Lecture 6: THE FUTURE; INTEGRATING IP THEORY WITH AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS AND LIBERTARIAN THEORY; PROPOSED REFORMS; IMAGINING A POST-IP WORLD; THE FUTURE OF OPEN VS. CLOSED   SUGGESTED READING MATERIAL The "suggested readings" for each lecture are appended below. The links were internal Mises Academy links so would not work here, and I had no time to add individual links for all of them, but until I find time to code in the links, most of these materials can be found on stephankinsella.com/publications, c4sif.org/resources, mises.org, hanshoppe.com/publications, or on Wikipedia or by google search. (If there is a particular link you cannot find online, email me or add to the comments, and I'll try to find it and update the post with that link.) Main Texts Kinsella, Against Intellectual Property (AIP) Boldrin & Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly (AIM) LECTURE 1: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN HISTORY SUGGESTED READINGS Legal Background: AIP, pp. 9-14 Optional Copyright Basics (US Copyright Office) URL Copyright overview (LII/Cornell) URL Patent law overview (LII/Cornell) URL Patent introductory information (Ladas & Parry) URL US Patent law information (USPTO) URL History: AIM, ch. 2, pp. 33-35 ("World Before Copyright" section); ch. 3, pp. 48-51 ("World Without Patent" section). AIP, pp. 9-14 Statute of Anne (Wikipedia) URL Stationers' Company (Wikipedia) URL History of patent law (Wikipedia) URL Letters Patent (Wikipedia) URL Statute of Monopolies 1624 (Wikipedia) URL Optional Krummenacker, Are "Intellectual Property Rights" Justified? (Historical Origins section) Palmer, Intellectual Property: A Non-Posnerian Law and Economics Approach (pp. 264-71) A Brief History of the Patent Law of the United States (Ladas & Parry) LECTURE 2: OVERVIEW OF JUSTIFICATIONS FOR IP; PROPERTY, SCARCITY, AND IDEAS SUGGESTED READINGS Law Defamation (Wikipedia)--beginning to Section 5 only Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy History Machlup, "An Economic Review of the Patent System" [pp. 2-5] Optional Machlup & Penrose, “The Patent Controversy in the Nineteenth Century,” [pp. 2-6, et pass.] Frumkin,