By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/10/2026When copyright's term expanded from "life plus 50 years" to "life plus 70 years," our bosses simply demanded the entirety of the new term, and didn't offer us a dime more. 1343
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/10/2026This is the thesis of *Chokepoint Capitalism*, the book on Big Tech, Big Media, and creative labor markets Rebecca Giblin and I published in 2022: www.beacon.org/Chokepoint-C...beacon.org Beacon Press: Chokepoint Capitalism 1293
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/10/2026*Chokepoint Capitalism* is broken into two parts: the first half of the book is a series of pitiless, plain-language dissections of the baroque scams that media companies have used to make themselves richer from our work, from Spotify to Amazon to Livenation and beyond. 1264
