Engelberg Center Live!
by Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
This 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. To learn more about the Engelberg Center, please visit https://www.nyuengelberg.org/
Episodes
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Pharma Monopoly: The Battle for the Future of Medicines
Tahir Amin discusses his new book on how to change the pharmaceutical industry for the better. Tahir Amin and Rohit Malpani, two leading figures in the access to medicines movement, examine the origins of this system of rules that champions monopolies and innovation over the public interest and...
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Public Pharma, Public Power: Taking Back Control of the Medicine Supply
Access to affordable medicine is a human right. Yet across the United States, drug prices remain out of reach for millions, with the heaviest burdens falling on Black, Latino, Indigenous, and other communities long excluded from equitable care. At the same time, a profit-driven pharmaceutical...
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Open @ UNGA 81: Open Data
During July’s UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, Secretary-General Guterres mentioned not letting “the digital divide harden into an AI divide.” This panel will explore the space between “open everything” and “close everything,” asking what meaningful access, governance, and participation…
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Open @ UNGA 81: Open Source Software
Open source has repeatedly reshaped technology markets by lowering barriers to entry, reducing rent extraction, and enabling innovation beyond what proprietary licensing allows. But open source code alone doesn’t guarantee competition, “sovereingnty,” or decentralization. A project can also be…
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Open @ UNGA 81: Open Infrastructure
As AI grows, so does dependence on the companies and institutions that control the infrastructure on which it runs. “Public” infrastructure can mean government-built systems or open, cross-border infrastructure maintained by nonprofit, research, commercial, or volunteer communities. This panel…
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Open @ UNGA 81: Open Hardware
Open hardware can help make AI systems more inspectable, adaptable, repairable, and interoperable. This lightning talk situates open hardware as one layer of a broader sovereignty strategy: a tool for expanding technical choice and auditability, not a promise that every country or community can...
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Open @ UNGA 81: Open Collaboration & Open Sovereignty
Digital sovereignty in the AI era cannot be realized through isolation or full-stack self-sufficiency. The cost of compute, hardware, and sovereign AI architectures makes it structurally impossible to own and control every layer of the stack independently. True digital agency instead comes…
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Book Event: Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry
This episode features audio from the book event Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry. It features a discussion with the book's authors J.S. Tan and Clarissa Redwine, moderated by Nikhil Singh.
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Community Forum on HIV Care & Prevention
In response to rising HIV cases in New York City, PrEP4All and the Save HIV Funding Campaign will convene a Community Forum in partnership with NYU Law’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. Once a national leader in ending the HIV epidemic, New York now faces stalled progress and...
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Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York: Kaitlin Thaney
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.
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Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York: Tara Hart
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.
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Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York: Rob Christiansen
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.
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Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York: Henry Felix Raine
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.
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Book Event: Move Slow and Upgrade
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.
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Conspicuous Consumers: Keynote of Nancy Mahon
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.
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Conspicuous Consumers: What’s Special About Consumers When It Comes to Competition?
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)
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Conspicuous Consumers: How Do We Understand the Consumer When We Assess the Prospect of Competition in Fair Use?
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
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Conspicuous Consumers: Keynote of Lisa Bonner
Lisa Bonner, Esq. Bonner Law, A Professional Corporation
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Conspicuous Consumers: How AI Impacts Consumption
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)
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Conspicuous Consumers: IP Rights as a Signal to Consumers
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)
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Conspicuous Consumers: The Consumer Scientist
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)
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Conspicuous Consumers: Sustainability in the Eye of the Beholder
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)
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Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York
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...
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Bad Landlords And The Movement To Take Back Our Rights
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…
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Ebooks, Meet Libraries; Libraries, Meet Ebooks
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
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So What Is An Ebook, Anyway?
Timeline Overlooked No More: Ángela Ruiz Robles, Inventor of an Early E-Reader - The New York Times Dorothea Salo References
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Trailer: Introducing A Podcast About Ebooks from Library Futures
Timeline How to Destroy the Book, by Cory Doctorow – The Varsity
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Public Domain Cabaret: WNYC Public Song Project Players & Necromancers of the Public Domain
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…
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Health Care at Reasonable Cost: What’s Next?
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…
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Health Care at Reasonable Cost: March-in Rights and § 1498
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)
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Health Care at Reasonable Cost: Drug Price Negotiations
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...
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Health Care at Reasonable Cost: The Neglected Hatch-Waxman Act Goal of Data Transparency
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)
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Health Care at Reasonable Cost: Protecting the Hatch-Waxman Act from Anticompetitive Gaming
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)
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Health Care at Reasonable Cost: Commissioner Slaughter Fireside Chat
Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Federal Trade Commission Daniel Francis, NYU School of Law
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Health Care at Reasonable Cost: Extending the Hatch-Waxman Act Model
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)
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Health Care at Reasonable Cost: An Empirical Evaluation of the Hatch-Waxman Act
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)
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Health Care at Reasonable Cost: The Goals of the Hatch-Waxman Act as Seen from 2024
Bob Armitage, Intellectual Property Consultant Alfred B. Engelberg Katherine Strandburg, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law (moderator)
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FUNTIME BOOK PARTY: Feminist Cyberlaw
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…
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Rethinking Patent Prosecution: Solutions and Alternative Paths
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...
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Rethinking Patent Prosecution: IPR Today
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
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Rethinking Patent Prosecution: Incentives Shaping the Current Prosecution Process
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
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Rethinking Patent Prosecution: State of Play in District Courts
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...
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Rethinking Patent Prosecution: Judge Chen Introduction
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.
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Necromancers of the Public Domain: Broadway Racketeers
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...
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Exploring the Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy: Copyright Law and Digital Ownership
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
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Exploring the Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy: How Libraries Handle Ebooks
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
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Exploring the Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy: Publishers Who Sell Ebooks
Claire Woodcock (moderator), Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy Emily Hamilton, University of Minnesota Press Dennis Johnson, Melville House Claire Kelley, Seven Stories Press
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Exploring the Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy: Publisher-Platform Data Relationships
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
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Exploring the Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy: Economics of Ebook Publisher/Platform Workflows
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
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Art vs. AI: The Salon
Music used: The Blue Dot Sessions, “Delicates,” “Gran PKL,” “Sorry Linus"
About this show
This 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. To learn more about the Engelberg Center, please visit https://www.nyuengelberg.org/
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