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Origitent: Why Original Content Is Property
"Those of us interested in libertarian ideas about justice and property rights, and innovation and creativity, should applaud Neil for providing to the public, in accessible form, his sincere and interesting thoughts about these matters."
--Stephan Kinsella, from his introduction
Novelist/Filmmaker/Journalist, J. Neil Schulman, began his arguments in favor of what his newest-nonfiction book calls “origitent” in a 1983 public debate with one of the highest-profile voices in the modern libertarian movement, fellow author Wendy McElroy.
Back then Schulman tagged his new paradigm for property rights in original content “logorights.”
A few decades later Schulman called the concept "MCP" – Media Carried Property.
It’s only in this new book that he’s created an original word to replace what has variously been called “Intellectual Property” – “IP” – or variously “copyright,” “patents,” and “trademarks” – to argue that in spite of claims that these are solely artifacts of statism the core concept is solidly grounded in libertarian natural-law/natural rights theory.
Schulman believes in arguing through dialectic so instead of hoping his readers never see the case made from the other side he takes on the opposition in continued open debate, not only by including the full text of Wendy McElroy’s own 30-year-later update but including crossed-swords arguments with Schulman’s own mentor, Samuel Edward Konkin III, and Schulman’s main nemesis on this subject, Stephan Kinsella, to whom the book is dedicated, with Kinsella writing the book's introduction, and providing a transcript of Schulman’s appearance on Kinsella’s own podcast, Kinsella on Liberty.
Whatever a reader ultimately decides about these challenging issues which are at the center of Global Trade controversies, this book provides the best of both sides’ foundations against and for the questions “What is property?” and “Do what authors, artists, musicians, and other creators make deserve the protections afforded to physical property?”
--Stephan Kinsella, from his introduction
Novelist/Filmmaker/Journalist, J. Neil Schulman, began his arguments in favor of what his newest-nonfiction book calls “origitent” in a 1983 public debate with one of the highest-profile voices in the modern libertarian movement, fellow author Wendy McElroy.
Back then Schulman tagged his new paradigm for property rights in original content “logorights.”
A few decades later Schulman called the concept "MCP" – Media Carried Property.
It’s only in this new book that he’s created an original word to replace what has variously been called “Intellectual Property” – “IP” – or variously “copyright,” “patents,” and “trademarks” – to argue that in spite of claims that these are solely artifacts of statism the core concept is solidly grounded in libertarian natural-law/natural rights theory.
Schulman believes in arguing through dialectic so instead of hoping his readers never see the case made from the other side he takes on the opposition in continued open debate, not only by including the full text of Wendy McElroy’s own 30-year-later update but including crossed-swords arguments with Schulman’s own mentor, Samuel Edward Konkin III, and Schulman’s main nemesis on this subject, Stephan Kinsella, to whom the book is dedicated, with Kinsella writing the book's introduction, and providing a transcript of Schulman’s appearance on Kinsella’s own podcast, Kinsella on Liberty.
Whatever a reader ultimately decides about these challenging issues which are at the center of Global Trade controversies, this book provides the best of both sides’ foundations against and for the questions “What is property?” and “Do what authors, artists, musicians, and other creators make deserve the protections afforded to physical property?”
188 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 13, 2018
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