Engelberg Center Live!: Recent Episodes
Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
This season of Engelberg Center Live! is devoted to the Kickstarter Union Oral History. Featuring insights from Kickstarter employees and organizers, the Kickstarter Union Oral History brings you inside the first unionization of a modern internet company.
Past seasons of Engelberg Center Live! contain audio from live events hosted by the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU Law. Events are focused on the intersection of Intellectual Property, Privacy, Antitrust, and Technology Law. You can learn more about the Engelberg Center by visiting Engelberg.Center.
This episode is audio from METRO's Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York community event, featuring a presentation by Kaitlin Thaney, Executive Director, Invest in Open Infrastructure. It was recorded on April 8, 2026.
This episode is audio from METRO's Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York community event, featuring a presentation by Tara Hart, Head Archivist of the Whitney Museum of American Art. It was recorded on April 8, 2026.
This episode is audio from METRO's Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York community event, featuring a presentation by Rob Christiansen, Director of Broadcast Applications, New York Public Radio. It was recorded on April 8, 2026.
This episode is audio from METRO's Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York community event, featuring a presentation by Henry Felix Raine, Director of the Library Digital Program at the New York Historical. It was recorded on April 8, 2026.
This episode is audio from the book launch for Move Slow and Upgrade, featuring co-author Albert Fox Cahn in conversation with Washington Post technology reporter Shira Ovide. It was recorded on March 4, 2026.
This episode is audio from Nancy Mahon's keynote address to the Engelberg Center's Conspicuous Consumers Symposium. It was recorded on October 16 , 2025.
- Daniel Francis, NYU School of Law
- Doha Mekki, UC Berkeley Law
- Eric Posner, University of Chicago Law School
- Scott Hemphill, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law (moderator)
- Erich Andersen, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law
- Kristelia García, Georgetown Law
- Katrina Geddes, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
- Guy Rub, Temple University Beasley School of Law
- Chris Sprigman, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law
- Mala Chatterjee, Columbia Law School
- Deven Desai, Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business
- Aaron Perzanowski, University of Michigan Law School
- Jason Schultz, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law (moderator)
- Chris Cotropia, George Washington University Law School
- Mark McKenna, UCLA School of Law
- Jacob Noti-Victor, Cardozo Law
- Rebecca Tushnet, Harvard Law School
- Jeanne Fromer, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law (moderator)
- Charles Duan, American University Washington College of Law
- Hilary Koch, Advocate for people living with diabetes
- Fran Visco, National Breast Cancer Coalition
- Steve Woloshin, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
- Chris Morten, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law (moderator)
- Maggie Chon, Seattle University School of Law
- Aaron Perzanowski, University of Michigan Law School
- Jessica Silbey, Boston University School of Law
- Anna Tischner, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
- Rochelle Dreyfuss, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law (moderator)
Public pharma is an alternative to our current profit-driven pharmaceutical system. Public pharma uses the public sector to research, develop, manufacture, and distribute drugs.
“Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York” is a critical discussion that will illuminate the transformative potential of publicly owned, manufactured, and distributed pharmaceuticals as we confront an industry that has prioritized profits over patients for too long, leaving patients without access to the medications they need to survive.
The discussion was organized by T1International, the NY #insulin4all Chapter, NYU Law’s Science, Health, and Information Clinic, and The Health and Political Economy Project of the New School's Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy, and hosted by the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. Speakers included New York State Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar, former New York City Health Commissioner Dave Chokshi, and Yale School of Medicine Professor Kasia Lipska.
More information: https://www.nyuengelberg.org/events/fixing-a-broken-system-the-path-to-public-pharma-in-new-york/
- Timeline
- How Much Does Obama's Summer Reading List Cost Your Library?
- E-Books for Us
- DPLA Introduces E-Books Libraries Can Own
- BRIET
- Readers First, an organization “dedicated to ensuring access to free and easy-to-use eBook content”
- For more on how publishers have tried to control library access to information, see The Publisher Play Book: A Timeline
- Robin Hastings
- References
- Timeline
- Why DRM Doesn’t Work, or How to Download an Audiobook from the Cleveland Public Library
- Ereaders, Overdrive Compatibility, Libraries as Digital Ghost Towns by Rochelle Hartman
- Robin Hastings
- Michael Blackwell
- References
- Timeline
- Overlooked No More: Ángela Ruiz Robles, Inventor of an Early E-Reader - The New York Times
- Dorothea Salo
- References
The Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, Library Futures, Theater of the Apes, and the Information Law Institute bring you this very special Public Domain Day presentation of Necromancers of the Public Domain.
Performers skilled in the art of necromancy transformed the book An Hour With The Movies And The Talkies (plucked from the shelves of the New York Society Library's public domain class of 2025) into a one-night-only variety show. We also featured performers from WNYC's Public Song Project.
WNYC Public Song Project Players include:
Nikhil Dasgupta
Hammer County
Kat Lewis
Sibyl (Chloe and Lily Holgate)
Kal Teaux
Necromancers include:
Emilio Cuesta (I Am Nobody / QUESTA)
Jordan Feit
Connor Kalista (The Neo-Futurists / Independent Film Editor)
Pearl Rhein
Necromancers lead by Ayun Halliday (Creative, Not Famous / The East Village Inky)
With Special Guest:
Saw Lady a.k.a. Natalia Paruz
Event photos: https://www.nyuengelberg.org/events/public-domain-celebration-with-necromancers-and-friends/
Donald Beers, Office of Chief Counsel of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (retired)
Alfred B. Engelberg
Abbe Gluck, Yale Law School
Arti Rai, Duke University School of Law
Ameet Sarpatwari, Harvard Medical School
Michael Weinberg, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law (moderator)
David J. Kappos, Cravath, Swaine, & Moore LLP
Aaron Kesselheim, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Rochelle Dreyfuss, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law (moderator)
Richard Epstein, NYU School of Law
Erika Lietzan, University of Missouri School of Law
Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Stanford Law School
Steve Pearson, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER)
Rachel Sachs, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
Daniel Hemel, NYU School of Law (moderator)
Rebecca Eisenberg, The University of Michigan Law School
Richard F. Kingham, Covington & Burling LLP
Reshma Ramachandran, Yale School of Medicine
Chris Morten, Columbia Law School (moderator)
Anisha Dasgupta, Federal Trade Commission
Henry Hadad, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Steve Shadowen, Hilliard Shadowen LLP
Eric Stock, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Scott Hemphill, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law (moderator)
Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Federal Trade Commission
Daniel Francis, NYU School of Law
Michael Frakes, Duke University School of Law
Emily Marden, Sidley Austin LLP
Nicholson Price, The University of Michigan Law School
S. Sean Tu, West Virginia University College of Law
Melissa Wasserman, The University of Texas School of Law
Bruce Wexler, Paul Hastings LLP (moderator)
Scott Hemphill, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law
Bhaven Sampat, Arizona State University
Margaret K. Kyle, MINES ParisTech (Ecole des Mines) (commentator)
Bob Armitage, Intellectual Property Consultant
Alfred B. Engelberg
Katherine Strandburg, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law (moderator)
Feminist Cyberlaw reimagines the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens, bringing together emerging and established scholars and practitioners to explore how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersections of these identities affect cyberspace and the laws that govern it. It is available as a free, open-access volume.
Panel Four: Solutions and Alternative Paths
Michael Weinberg (moderator), Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
Dave Kappos, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Arti Rai, The Center for Innovation Policy - Duke Law School
Michael Frakes, Duke Law School & Melissa Wasserman, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Panel Three: IPR Today
Rochelle Dreyfuss (moderator), NYU School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
Gabrielle Higgins, Desmarais LLP
Scott McKeown, Wolf Greenfield
Naveen Modi, Paul Hastings
Panel Two: Incentives Shaping the Current Prosecution Process
Bruce Wexler (moderator), Paul Hastings and NYU School of Law
Bob Stoll, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Mark Vallone, IBM
Panel One: The State of Play in District Courts
John Desmarais (moderator), Desmarais LLP
Judge Raymond Chen, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Nicholas Groombridge, Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP
Judge Maryellen Noreika, U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Cardozo Law
This episode is audio of Judge Raymond Chen's introductory remarks from the Engelberg Center's Rethinking Patent Prosecution, Review, and Litigation event. It was recorded on March 28, 2024.
Theater of the Apes, Library Futures, and the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy bring you this very special Public Domain Day presentation of Necromancers of the Public Domain.
Performers skilled in the art of necromancy will transform the book Broadway Racketeers (plucked from the shelves of the New York Society Library's public domain class of 2024) into a one-night-only variety show. The necromancers will be joined by music from Miss Maybell and the Jazz Age Artistes and updates on efforts to establish a National Public Domain Day.
Necromancers include:
Nick Balaban (Hello, Cruel World / Blues Clues)
Ellia Bisker & Heather Cole (Charming Disaster / Funkrust Brass Band)
Bryce Edwards (The Bryce Edwards Frivolity Hour)
Dejen Tesfagiorgis (Deja Deja Comedy)
Hosted by Ayun Halliday (Creative, Not Famous / The East Village Inky)
Brett Max Kaufman (moderator), American Civil Liberties Union
Patrick Holvey, U.S. Department of Justice
Santana Jackson, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Dillon Reisman, American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey
Charlotte Slaiman, Public Knowledge
Jake Karr (moderator), Technology Law and Policy Clinic
Ava McAlpin, Lincoln Center for Performing Arts
Samanatha Fink Hedrick, FullStory
Florina Yezril, Gibson Dunn
Ethan Lin, Brown Rudnick
Melodi Dincer (moderator), Technology Law and Policy Clinic
Kiana Boroumand, Technology Law and Policy Clinic
Batya Kemper, Technology Law and Policy Clinic
Talya Nevins, Technology Law and Policy Clinic
Talya Whyte, Technology Law and Policy Clinic
Jason Schultz (moderator), New York University School of Law, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, and Technology Law and Policy Clinic
Megan Graham, Samuelson Law Technology & Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law
Brett Max Kaufman, American Civil Liberties Union
Amanda Levendowski, Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic at Georgetown Law
Peter Steffensen, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
- Michael Weinberg (moderator), New York University School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
- Mehtab Khan, Yale Law School
- Michelle Wu, Formerly Georgetown University Law Center
- Jennie Rose Halperin (moderator), Library Futures
- Micah May, Digital Public Library of America
- Carmi Parker, Whatcom County Library System
- Kathleen Riegelhaupt, New York Public Library
- Claire Woodcock (moderator), Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
- Emily Hamilton, University of Minnesota Press
- Dennis Johnson, Melville House
- Claire Kelley, Seven Stories Press
- Talya Cooper (moderator), New York University Libraries
- Sam Biddle, The Intercept
- Annalee Hickman Pierson, Brigham Young University Law School
- Melanie Walsh, Information School at the University of Washington
- Michael Weinberg (moderator), New York University School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
- Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Library Pass
- Michael Tamblyn, Rakuten Kobo
Music Used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Dirty Wallpaper,” “Valentis,” “Pulse,” “Mill Wyrm,” “Cloud Line,” “Pall Canyon,” “A Common Pause,” “Dialtone 11"
Citations:
Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring"
John Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci," read by Michael Sheen
Siegfried Sassoon, “Everyone Sang,” read by Garrison Keillor
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Copley Beat,” “Plate Glass,” “Flashing Runner,” “Fifteen Street,” “Silver Lanyard,” “Greylock,” “Cornicob,” “Nine Count,” “Tall Journey”
The Blue Dot Session, “Greylock," "Lumber Down," "Turning on the Lights," "The Big Ten," "Dance of Felt," "Angel Tooth," "Dear Myrtle," "Children of Lemuel," “Rafter”
Music used:
The Blue Dot Sessions, “Drone Birch,” “Song at the End of Times,” “Trek VX"
Introducing Knowing Machines, a podcast companion to the Knowing Machines project. In this podcast, we're going to look at the data that's used to train artificial intelligence. The building blocks of these systems offer us a powerful way to understand how these systems see the world, how they interpret it, as well as what they don't see, and what they might be getting wrong. So we're here to discuss what that material is and why it matters. The season brings together computer scientists, engineers, social scientists, humanists, and also artists and journalists, a whole range of different interdisciplinary stakeholders in the same room to demystify this moment in artificial intelligence. Episodes will drop weekly. We look forward to have you listen with us.
It features:
- Harry First (Honoree), New York University School of Law
- Elinor Hoffmann, Antitrust Bureau, New York State Attorney General
- Doug Melamed, Stanford Law School and USC Gould School of Law
- Howard Shelanski, Georgetown University Law Center and Davis Polk & Wardwell
- Spencer Weber Waller, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- Daniel Francis (Moderator), New York University School of Law
It features:
- Dan Rubinfeld (Honoree), New York University School of Law
- Jennifer Milici, WilmerHale
- Aviv Nevo, U.S. Federal Trade Commission and University of Pennsylvania
- Nancy Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Chris Sprigman (Moderator), New York University School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
It features:
- Eleanor Fox (Honoree), New York University School of Law
- Daniel Crane, University of Michigan Law School
- Rohan Pai, U.S. Federal Trade Commission
- Phil Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado
- Scott Hemphill (Moderator), New York University School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
Scott Sholder (CDAS) moderating a conversation with Kayvan Ghaffari (MakersPlace), Jennie Rose Halperin (Library Futures), and Heather Timm (Artist)
Nitcha Tothong (eleklekha artist collective) moderating a conversation with Sasha Stiles (Artist), Max Sills (Midjourney), and Sarvesh Mahajan (Crowell & Moring)
Matthew Allen (BRIC Arts) moderating a conversation with Allison Sherrick (METRO), Kengchakaj (elekhlekha artist collective), and Jocelyn Miyara (Creative Commons)
Marta Belcher (Filecoin Foundation) moderating a conversation with Aviya Skowron (EleutherAI), Dave Hansen (Authors Alliance), Rebekah Tweed (All Tech Is Human), and Eryk Salvaggio (Siegel Family Endowment)
Ami Bhatt (McKinsey & Co) moderating a conversation with Justin Haan (Morrison Foerster), Wade Wallerstein (Grey Area), karen darricades (CC Canada), and Carla Gannis (NYU)
Brigitte Vézina (Creative Commons) moderating a conversation with Yacine Jernite (Hugging Face), Stacey Lantagne (Western New England University), and Nicholas Garcia (Public Knowledge)
Mike Kemezis (Connecticut Humanities) moderating a conversation with Mike Trizna (Smithsonian Institution), Garvita Kapur (The New York Public Library), Abbey Potter (Library of Congress), and Amanda Figueroa (Curationist)
Scott Hemphill (Moderator), New York University School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
Paul R. Gugliuzza, Temple University Beasley School of Law
Nathan Kelley, Perkins Coie
Erin Mehta, Northrop Grumman
Laura Sheridan (Moderator), Google
Isabella Fu, Microsoft
David J. Kappos, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Natalie S. Richer, Lerner David
Bruce Wexler (Moderator), Paul Hastings
Henry Hadad, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Amy Nelson, Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
E. Joshua Rosenkranz, Orrick
John Desmarais (Moderator), Desmarais LLP
Judge Kathleen O'Malley, Irell and Manella LLP
Lisa Pensabene, O'Melveny & Myers
Jonathan E. Singer, Fish and Richardson
Margaret Chon (Moderator), Seattle University School of Law
Barton Beebe, New York University School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
Barbara Lauriat, The George Washington University School of Law
Chris Sprigman, New York University School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
Jeanne Fromer (Moderator), New York University School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
Judge Raymond Chen, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
John M. Desmarais, Desmarais LLP
Marketa Trimble, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law
Melissa Feeney Wasserman, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Katherine J. Strandburg (Moderator), New York University School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation, Law, and Policy
David Levine, Elon University School of Law
Orly Lobel, University of San Diego School of Law
Christopher Morten, Columbia Law School
Sharon K. Sandeen, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Michael Burstein (Moderator), Cardozo Law
Margo A. Bagley, Emory University School of Law
Patricia A. Martone, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
Rebecca S. Eisenberg, The University of Michigan Law School
Ryan Vacca, University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law
Graeme B. Dinwoodie (Moderator), Chicago-Kent College of Law
Susy Frankel (Moderator), Victoria University of Wellington
Christine Haight Farley, American University Washington College of Law
Justin Hughes, Loyola Law School
Ruth L. Okediji, Harvard Law School
Ana Santos Rutschman, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Peter K. Yu, Texas A&M University School of Law
Welcome to Engelberg Center Live, a collection of audio from events held by the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU Law. Today's episode is a FUNTIME BOOK PARTY presentation by Professor Orly Lobel. Professor Lobel discusses her new book The Equality Machine. The discussion is lead by Professor Jeanne Frommer. The episode was recorded on March 23, 2023.
In today's episode, Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow discussion their new book Chokepoint Capitalism with The Verge Editor in Chief Nilay Patel. It was recorded on September 23, 2022.
On today's episode, Engelberg Center Fellow and CUNY Law Professor Sarah Lamdan discusses her new book Data Cartels with MarketWatch Enterprise Reporter Shoshana Wodinsky. It was recorded on November 10, 2022.
In the aftermath of the leaked Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, warnings to period tracking app users went viral. The message? Ditch them immediately. Weeks later, a New York Times headline countered, “Deleting Your Period Tracker Won’t Protect You.” Join us for a panel discussion with academic, innovation, and advocacy experts who will explore how exactly such data is already or could be used – and misused. What privacy laws or legislation can be leveraged to protect FemTech users? And why does menstrual literacy – with or without tech tools – matter more than ever in our post-Dobbs reality?
Moderator: Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Panelists:
- Dr. Caitlin Gerdts, Vice President of Research, Ibis Reproductive Health;
- Ambreen Molitor, National Director of Innovation, Planned Parenthood Federation of America;
- Salomé Viljoen, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School;
- Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Executive Director of the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network at NYU Law
On today's episode, Jessica Silbey and Rebecca Giblin discuss their new books "Against Progress" and "Chokepoint Capitalism" with Engelberg Center Faculty Co-Director Jason Schultz. It was recorded on October 13, 2022.
Fireside Chat: John Belcaster, General Counsel of MSCHF, John Belcaster, General Counsel of MSCHF, John Belcaster, General Counsel of MSCHF, and Megan Bannigan, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton, in conversation with Jeanne Fromer, NYU School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy.
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Kate Klonick, St. John's University School of Law
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Nathaniel Persily, Stanford Law School
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Judge Robert D. Sack, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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Jessica Silbey, Boston University School of Law
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Katherine Strandburg, NYU School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy (moderator)
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Brian Frye, University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law
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Rebecca Giblin, Melbourne Law School
- Scott Hemphill, NYU School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
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Stephen Lee, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Target Corporation
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Jason Schultz, NYU School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy (moderator)
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Amy Adler, NYU School of Law
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Winnie Wong, University of California, Berkeley
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Barton Beebe, NYU School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy (moderator)
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Christine Haight Farley, American University Washington College of Law
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Sari Mazzurco, Yale Law School
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Mark McKenna, UCLA School of Law
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Julie Zerbo, The Fashion Law
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Christopher Sprigman, NYU School of Law and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy (moderator)
Panelists:
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Chris Lewis, Public Knowledge
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Michael Livermore, University of Virginia School of Law
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Andrea Matwyshyn, Penn State Law
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Michael Weinberg, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU School of Law (moderator)
Today's episode is the framing discussion that served as an introduction to the Fake Symposium. It features Engelberg Center Faculty Co-Directors Jeanne Fromer and Christopher Sprigman, as well as Executive Director Michael Weinberg. It was recorded on September 22, 2022.
Today's episode is Siva Vaidhyanathan's keynote speech from the Fake Symposium. It was recorded on September 22, 2022.
Engelberg Center Live! is back! Today's event is a conversation with Internet Archive Founder Brewster Kahle. Engelberg Center Faculty Co-Director Jason Schultz discussed the nature of ownership in a digital world, and how this connects with ebooks shared by the Internet Archive.The event was held on September 20, 2022.
In the final episode of the Kickstarter United Oral History, the union works through the COVID-19 pandemic as organizers reflect on their experiences forming the union.
Leadership’s anti union strategy slows organizing to a stop and organizers begin to lose hope.
We’re a little over half way through the oral history of Kickstarter’s Union. This is just a quick announcement about our winter holiday release schedule. For the rest of the year, we’re taking two weeks off. One week is this week, so the final part of chapter 5 will drop on Tuesday the 8th. The next break we’re planning to take is the last week in December. Hopefully this gives you time to catch up on any episodes you missed or even share this project with another organizer. As always, thanks so much for supporting this deep dive into the Kickstarter organizing effort and solidarity forever.
Hey folks! You’ve all been amazing, just stellar. Thank so much to everyone sending in notes of support. All of your messages, words of encouragement, and chef kiss emojis have meant so much to me and everyone who contributed to this oral history.
Along with a giant heartfelt thank you, this is a quick announcement that we’re changing up the cadence for releasing episodes. We’re getting into what might be the juiciest part of the story - when the union drive becomes an intense race between workers and management. From here on out each episode will be jam packed with events and activity from both management and union organizers. There will be a lot to get through and a lot to digest. So you can look forward to a fresh episode every two weeks. It’s worth the wait.
Feel free to reach out and let us know what you think of the oral history so far and, of course, I encourage you to share the brilliant voices of my fellow organizers far and wide. We’re all in this together and this story is about to really heat up.
Kickstarter Union Oral History Chapter 2: The specific events that led to the first utterance of “union.”
Why are tech workers forming unions? Hear directly from employees who built Kickstarter’s Union about why they thought a union was the structural change their tech campaign needed.
This oral history centers the first hand accounts of organizers and uses documentation to deepen the narrative. Together we’ll hear corroboration from multiple sources, leaked audio from inside Kickstarter, and written communication between employees and management.
This oral history is a chorus of unique voices and perspectives. Together we’ll hear how workers and organizers speak to one another and how they learn from each other.
This September, the Engelberg Center brings you a ten part series chronicling the formation of the first tech company union in US history.
On today’s episode we discuss the range of questions that the Copyright Directive raises. While the possibility of global contagion of the EU Directive remains uncertain, we speculate on the (im)possibility of transplanting the licensing mandate of the Directive in the US context.
As filters are promoted as a silver bullet to copyright enforcement, we ask whether they even work, and who they work against. We discuss the particular impacts on users and individual content creators that lose out most in this negotiation between institutional copyright holders and large UGC platforms.
Our guests for this episode:
Kat Geddes, PhD candidate NYU Law
Jamie Greenberg, Corporate counsel, Wattpad
Meredith Rose, Public Knowledge
This episode - along with other episodes in the series - has been approved for one CLE credit in the Area of Professional Practice category. The credit is appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys. Please email engelberg.center@nyu.edu to obtain CLE credit and for an accessible version of the transcript that includes CLE codes.
On today’s episode we focus on what the final text of Article 17 requires in terms of its two-fold licensing and filtering mandate. The text has a series of broad progressive safeguards and exceptions, leaving a lot of room for interpretation. We discuss mixed signals (“a law that’s trying to be everything to everybody”), and the inevitable complexity of mandating automated tools within established jurisprudence around privacy and intermediary liability safe harbors.
Will this directive hold up against legal challenges before the Court of Justice? As member states of the European Union implement this Directive, will they interpret the safeguards boldy? Or simply replicate the same ambiguities?
Our guests share their views:
Christina Angelopoulos, Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge and a member of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL)
Martin Husovec, Assistant Professor in Law at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), formerly Tilburg University, Netherlands
This episode - along with other episodes in the series - has been approved for one CLE credit in the Area of Professional Practice category. The credit is appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys. Please email engelberg.center@nyu.edu to obtain CLE credit and for an accessible version of the transcript that includes CLE codes.
Today's episode is an audio postcard from the world of IP litigation in the middle of a pandemic. Over the past few weeks we have collected conversations with law firm litigators, judges, and in-house counsel about how COVID is impacting IP litigation. They talked about how they used to see the world, how things have changed, and how those things may remain changed after the pandemic passes.
We think of this episode as a time capsule. It captures a moment in the late spring and early summer of 2020 where things have been different long enough to understand some of the changes, but not long enough to fully appreciate the impacts of those differences.
Special thanks to our guests:
- Mark Abate, Goodwin Procter LLP
- Erin Mehta, Hulu
- Chris Noyes, WilmerHale
- Ashok Ramani, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
- Claudia Ray, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
- Chief Judge Leonard Stark, U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
- Bruce Wexler, Paul Hastings LLP
The episode is hosted by Engelberg Center Executive Director Michael Weinberg and features the two other co-creators of Glam3D.org, Sketchfab Cultural Heritage Lead Thomas Flynn and Engelberg Center Fellow Neal Stimler.
Unlike most Engelberg Center Live! episodes, which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license, this episode is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. This variation allows the episode licensing to match the licensing for Glam3D.org.
The theme music for this episode is by Jessica Batke. The modified version of the Engelberg Center Live! theme that appears on this episode is also licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps was originally held on May 1, 2020 to discuss the privacy implications of technology-based contract tracing applications. The event was co-hosted by Marc Canellas and Rights Over Tech, the Engelberg Center, the Information Law Institute, and the NYU Center for Cybersecurity. The discussion features:
-- Rachel Levinson-Waldman, Senior Counsel, Liberty and National Security, NYU Brennan Center for Justice (Moderator).
-- Lorna Thorpe, Professor of Epidemiology, Director of the Division of Epidemiology, NYU Langone School of Medicine.
-- Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.
-- Ed Amoroso, Distinguished Research Professor, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; CEO, TAG Cyber LLC.
Co-hosted by the Engelberg Center and R Street, this panel discussion focused on innovation during the COVID-19 crisis.
Moderator: Chales Duan, Director of Technology and Innovation, R St. Panelists: Michael Weinberg, Executive Director, Engelberg Center; Alicia Gibb, Executive Director, Open Source Hardware Association; Matt Lane, Executive Director, Coalition Against Patent Abuse; Ana Santos Rutschman, Professor, St. Louis University School of Law. This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 license.
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Christina Cyr (dtoor), Lenore M. Edman (Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories), Nadya Peek (University of Washington), Carl Richell (System76), and Glenn Samala (SparkFun) join moderator Ayah Bdeir for a lively debate on the state of open source hardware at the 2020 Open Hardware Summit. More information about the Summit is available at 2020.oshwa.org.