{"product_id":"chokepoint-capitalism-how-big-tech-and-big-content-captured-creative-labor-markets-and-how-well-win-them-back-hardcover","title":"Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebecca Giblin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCory Doctorow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCorporate 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 monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)--or both. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChokepoint Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, scholar Rebecca Giblin and writer and activist Cory Doctorow argue we're in a new era of \"chokepoint capitalism,\" with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others. All workers are weakened by this, but the problem is especially well-illustrated by the plight of creative workers. From Amazon's use of digital rights management and bundling to radically change the economics of book publishing, to Google and Facebook's siphoning away of ad revenues from news media, and the Big Three record labels' use of inordinately long contracts to up their own margins at the cost of artists, chokepoints are \u003ci\u003eeverywhere\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy analyzing book publishing and news, live music and music streaming, screenwriting, radio and more, Giblin and Doctorow deftly show how powerful corporations construct \"anti-competitive flywheels\" designed to lock in users and suppliers, make their markets hostile to new entrants, and then force workers and suppliers to accept unfairly low prices. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the book's second half, Giblin and Doctorow then explain how to batter through those chokepoints, with tools ranging from transparency rights to collective action and ownership, radical interoperability, contract terminations, job guarantees, and minimum wages for creative work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eChokepoint Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e is a call to workers of all sectors to unite to help smash these chokepoints and take back the power and profit that's being heisted away--before it's too late.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Giblin\u003c\/b\u003e (she\/her) 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 (authorsinterest.org; elendingproject.org), as well as Untapped: the Australian Literary Heritage Project (untapped.org.au). \u003ci\u003eChokepoint Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e is her latest book. She also wrote \u003ci\u003eCode War\u003c\/i\u003es and co-edited \u003ci\u003eWhat if we could reimagine copyright?\u003c\/i\u003e. Follow her on Twitter (@rgibli) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCory Doctorow\u003c\/b\u003e is a bestselling science fiction writer and activist. He is a special advisor 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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