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Chokepoint capitalism : how big tech and big content captured creative labor markets and how we'll win them back  Cover Image Book Book

Chokepoint capitalism : how big tech and big content captured creative labor markets and how we'll win them back / Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow.

Giblin, Rebecca, (author.). Doctorow, Cory, (author.).

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780807007068 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects.
Cultural industries.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 1 current hold with 1 total copy.
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Cookstown Branch 338.477 Gib 31681010293868 NONFIC Available -

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).


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