Stay ConnectedThis season of Engelberg Center Live! contains audio from Engelberg Center events.
Previous seasons of Engelberg Center Live! included a history of ebooks from Library Futures, a deep dive into the datasets used to train AI with Knowing Machines, an oral history of the unionization effort at Kickstarter, and (of course) audio from a range of Engelberg Center events.
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Management discovers the union and begins to implement a strategy.
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.
Workers help each other through retaliation and resolve to build a union.
Kickstarter Union Oral History Chapter 2: The specific events that led to the first utterance of “union.”
A window into how Kickstarter’s culture encouraged collective action.
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.
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