Chokepoint Capitalism
how big tech and big content captured creative labour markets, and how we'll win them back
$31.49
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2022
Summary
‘Chokepoint Capitalism tells us how the vampires crashed the party, and provides protective garlic.’ - Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale
A call to action for the creative class and labour movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media.
Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsoni…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761380075 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1761380079 |
| Author: | Rebecca Giblin |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 428g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 154mm x 232mm |
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Rebecca Giblin
Rebecca Giblin
Rebecca Giblin is an ARC Future Fellow and professor at Melbourne Law School, where she leads interdisciplinary teams researching issues around creators’ rights, access to knowledge, and the regulation of technology and culture. She is director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA), and heads up the Author’s Interest and eLending projects, as well as Untapped: the Australian Literary Heritage Project.
Chokepoint Capitalism is her latest book. She also wrote Code Wars and co-edited What if we could reimagine copyright?
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a bestselling science fiction writer and activist. He is a special adviser to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, with whom he has worked for 20 years. He is also a visiting professor of computer science at the Open University (UK) and of library science at the University of North Carolina. He is also a MIT Media Lab research affiliate. He co-founded the UK Open Rights Group and co-owns the website Boing Boing.
He is the author of more than 20 books, including novels for adults and young adults, graphic novels for middle-grade readers, picture books, nonfiction books on technology and politics, and collections of essays.
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