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Tom W. Bell joins Aaron and Trevor for a discussion on intellectual property, specifically copyright law in the United States.
Tom W. Bell joins Aaron and Trevor for a discussion on intellectual property, specifically copyright law in the United States. Is there one libertarian stance on intellectual property?
What’s wrong with copyright law in America today? Should we even have copyright at all? And if we should, how can we make it better than it is now?
Show Notes and Further Reading
Tom W. Bell, Intellectual Privilege (book)
Prof. Tom W. Bell teaches at Chapman University School of Law, where he specializes in intellectual property and high-tech law. Prior to Chapman, Bell served as Director of Telecommunications and Technology Studies at the Cato Institute.
Aaron Powell founded Libertarianism.org. He is now the host of (Re)Imagining Liberty, a podcast about the case for radical freedom.
Trevor Burrus was a research fellow in the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. His research interests include constitutional law, civil and criminal law, legal and political philosophy, legal history, and the interface between science and public policy.
He is the editor of A Conspiracy against Obamacare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Deep Commitments: The Past, Present, and Future of Religious Liberty (Cato, 2017). Burrus holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a JD from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He also contributed a chapter to Libertarianism.org’s Visions of Liberty.