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Abolish Copyrights and Patents? A Soho Forum Debate

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What it is

A Soho Forum debate in which patent lawyer Stephan Kinsella argues for abolishing copyright and patents against law professor Richard Epstein. Both come from libertarian perspectives.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Anything by Stephan Kinsella is worth watching”

    Kinsella argues for abolishing IP

    breck, 2023-04 · Strong recommendation · in “'Delete Act' seeks to give Californians more power to block data tracking”

  2. “Here is a debate on IP with two different libertarian perspective”

    Debate on IP from two libertarian perspectives with research against IP

    aaa_aaa, 2022-10 · Recommendation · in “Vectis IP Announces Call for Patents Essential to the Opus codec”

  3. “I thought this was a decent debate on the subject”

    Both sides agree current copyright and patent system is in poor shape

    interroboink, 2023-05 · Recommendation · in “Supreme Court Rules Andy Warhol’s Prince Art Is Copyright Infringement”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: copyright, patents, libertarianism, stephan kinsella, richard epstein

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