Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow

Chokepoint Capitalism (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A call to action for the creative class and labor 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 monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)-or both.

In Chokepoint Capitalism, 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 everywhere.

By 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.

In 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.

Chokepoint Capitalism 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807007075
• Artikelnr.: 63259432

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Giblin (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). Chokepoint Capitalism is her latest book. She also wrote Code Wars and co-edited What if we could reimagine copyright?. Follow her on Twitter (@rgibli) Cory Doctorow 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. Follow him on Twitter (@doctorow).

Inhaltsangabe

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