By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026This approach rarely works, and when it does, it works badly. 50 years of more copyright, richer bosses, *and* poorer artists put the lie to the "LLC with an MFA" approach. 29/ 1211
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026If we're workers, then we derive our power from *labor* rights. The Writers Guild - the only creative workers in world history to have comprehensively beaten AI in their workplace - won their AI fight with a *strike*: pluralistic.net/2023/10/01/h... 30/pluralistic.netHow the Writers Guild sunk AI’s ship – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1316
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026The Hollywood guilds are able to pursue a limited form of "sectoral bargaining" (where all the workers in a field bargain with all its bosses) called "multi-employer bargaining." Bosses *hate* sectoral bargaining, and in 1947 they got it banned outright through the Taft-Hartley Act. 31/ 1235
