What is Chokepoint Capitalism?

Why copyright alone can’t unrig creative labor markets.

Cory Doctorow
8 min readAug 21, 2022

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Chokepoint Capitalism is my next book, co-written with the brilliant copyright scholar Rebecca Giblin. It’s a book about how the markets for creative labor were rigged, and how artists, fans, tinkerers, regulators and lawmakers can unrig them.

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