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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 238. At Libertopia Oct. 12, 2012, I participated in an hour-long IP panel with Charles Johnson, moderated by Butler Shaffer. Transcript below. For my other presentation, and for more details, see KOL236 | Intellectual Nonsense: Fallacious Arguments for IP (Libertopia 2012). Youtube: https://youtu.be/lTWjqn16fGk Libertopia 2012 IP Panel Stephan Kinsella, Charles Johnson, and Butler Shaffer Oct. 12, 2012 Transcript M: Butler, Shaffer with his Gandalf stick [indiscernible_ STEPHAN KINSELLA: No. Charles Johnson. M: Charles? Check. M: Charles. M: Charles Johnson [indiscernible_ STEPHAN KINSELLA: I think we need a third chair. M: Did you want to – are we just going to use the podium? M: Oh, I see. M: We can bring out three chairs if you’d like. M: I think three chairs is – that’s what we did yesterday. I think everyone sat down, and remember the first three rows must heckle. That is the rule. You must heckle and, in fact, under your seat a bucket of fruit, fairly old, and [indiscernible_ STEPHAN KINSELLA: Sorry. M: No problem. It just comes with the territory. M: All right, Mr. Butler, if you’d like to take it away I will have a seat [indiscernible_ BUTLER SHAFFER: Are we all set? STEPHAN KINSELLA: We’re set. BUTLER SHAFFER: Is this all turned on? I assume. All right. Our panel has to do with the personal significance of intellectual property [indiscernible_ STEPHAN KINSELLA: Charles, do you want to start since I had a shot at this yesterday? CHARLES JOHNSON: Sure. So my position is no, there’s not going to be copyright or patent protections that look anything like the bundle of legal protections that go along with those today. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Of course I agree. I actually think there wouldn’t be trademark, trade secret, or any other type of IP as well. BUTLER SHAFFER: We’re set. Why don’t we go home? [laughter] BUTLER SHAFFER: The reason I ask that and the reason I ask it in the form of a question for which yes or no might not be a complete answer is here we see a problem with copyright or patent arising out of contract between tw...