Chokepoint Capitalism
How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
Published on 27. September 2022
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-8070-0706-8 (ISBN)
Description
"People are feeling squeezed because of chokepoint capitalism: exploitative businesses creating barriers to competition that let them take over markets and extract an unfair share of value. This book teaches how to spot those chokepoints, and what we can do to blow them up"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston, MA
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
593 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8070-0706-8 (9780807007068)
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Person
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
Content
PART 1: CULTURE HAS BEEN CAPTURED
CHAPTER 1
Big Business Captured Culture
CHAPTER 2
How Amazon Took Over Books
CHAPTER 3
How News Got Broken
CHAPTER 4
Why Prince Changed His Name
CHAPTER 5
Why Streaming Doesn’t Pay
CHAPTER 6
Why Spotify Wants You to Rely on Playlists
CHAPTER 7
What the US Shares with Rwanda, Iran, and North Korea
CHAPTER 8
How Live Nation Chickenized Live Music
CHAPTER 9
Why Seven Thousand Hollywood Writers Fired Their Agents
CHAPTER 10
Why Fortnite Sued Apple
CHAPTER 11
YouTube: Baking Chokepoints In
PART 2: BRAKING ANTICOMPETITIVE FLYWHEELS
CHAPTER 12
Ideas Lying Around
CHAPTER 13
Transparency Rights
CHAPTER 14
Collective Action
CHAPTER 15
Time Limits on Copyright Contracts
CHAPTER 16
Radical Interoperability
CHAPTER 17
Minimum Wages for Creative Work
CHAPTER 18
Collective Ownership
CHAPTER 19
Uniting Against Chokepoint Capitalism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
CHAPTER 1
Big Business Captured Culture
CHAPTER 2
How Amazon Took Over Books
CHAPTER 3
How News Got Broken
CHAPTER 4
Why Prince Changed His Name
CHAPTER 5
Why Streaming Doesn’t Pay
CHAPTER 6
Why Spotify Wants You to Rely on Playlists
CHAPTER 7
What the US Shares with Rwanda, Iran, and North Korea
CHAPTER 8
How Live Nation Chickenized Live Music
CHAPTER 9
Why Seven Thousand Hollywood Writers Fired Their Agents
CHAPTER 10
Why Fortnite Sued Apple
CHAPTER 11
YouTube: Baking Chokepoints In
PART 2: BRAKING ANTICOMPETITIVE FLYWHEELS
CHAPTER 12
Ideas Lying Around
CHAPTER 13
Transparency Rights
CHAPTER 14
Collective Action
CHAPTER 15
Time Limits on Copyright Contracts
CHAPTER 16
Radical Interoperability
CHAPTER 17
Minimum Wages for Creative Work
CHAPTER 18
Collective Ownership
CHAPTER 19
Uniting Against Chokepoint Capitalism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index