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

• Timeline
• How to Destroy the Book, by Cory Doctorow – The Varsity

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)