Cory Doctorow
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525 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's when all the workers in a sector bargain with all the bosses in the sector.
You know, if you had sectoral bargaining, every cab driver, every Uber driver, every other driver for hire could be in one union and they could bargain with everyone who supplied service to them.
It wouldn't matter if they were 1099 or W2, a contractor or an employee.
They would be bargaining for the same contract.
The Hollywood guilds were carved out.
And that meant that all the writers were able to be in one union that bargained against all the employers.
And they won.
That's right.
And the fact that a bunch of them were freelancers didn't matter.
Because remember, one of the things that AI lets you do is convert employees who have rights into contractors who don't.
It doesn't matter if you have sectoral bargaining.
You know, the writers who write for Warners aren't Warners employees.
They got a 1099 like an Uber driver, right?
But they're in a union that Warner has to respect, right?
And here's an amazing thing, because a lot of creative workers, and you know, that's my gig too, I've been a fiction writer since I was 17 years old.
I've written more than 30 books.
And a lot of my colleagues, they think the way that we resolve this is by creating a new copyright that bans scraping the internet,
making mathematical models of the things that you recover from it, and then publishing those models as software.
I look at this and I'm baffled for two reasons.
One is that those are super beneficial activities, like scraping the Internet and then interrogating the database that you find.
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