Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back

Tracklist

• 1
  Opening
  1:16
• 2
  Chapter 1: Big Business Captured Culture
  50:37
• 3
  Chapter 3: How News Got Broken
  35:10
• 4
  Chapter 4: Why Prince Changed His Name
  37:43
• 5
  Chapter 5: Why Streaming Doesn’t Pay
  34:49
• 6
  Chapter 6: Why Spotify Wants You to Rely on Playlists
  30:30
• 7
  Chapter 7: What the US Shares with Rwanda, Iran, and North Korea
  17:25
• 8
  Chapter 8: How Live Nation Chickenized Live Music
  21:34
• 9
  Chapter 9: Why Seven Thousand Hollywood Writers Fired Their Agents
  20:02
• 10
  Chapter 10: Why Fortnite Sued Apple
  33:08
• 11
  Chapter 11: YouTube: Baking Chokepoints In
  46:51
• 12
  Chapter 12: Ideas Lying Around
  33:55
• 13
  Chapter 13: Transparency Rights
  38:40
• 14
  Chapter 14: Collective Action
  32:06
• 15
  Chapter 15: Time Limits on Copyright Contracts
  45:02
• 16
  Chapter 16: Radical Interoperability
  44:39
• 17
  Chapter 17: Minimum Wages for Creative Work
  46:57
• 18
  Chapter 18: Collective Ownership
  44:55
• 19
  Chapter 19: Uniting Against Chokepoint Capitalism
  44:14
• 20
  Chapter 19: Uniting Against Chokepoint Capitalism
  1:33
• 21
  End credits
  1:33

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  Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back

  Digital Media
  27 September 2022