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Rebecca Giblin is a professor at Melbourne Law School, where she researches at the intersection of law and culture. Her three books take new lenses to cultural challenges, using them to disentangle seemingly intractable problems.

'CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM' (with Cory Doctorow, 2022), deconstructs the playbook used by Big Business (like Amazon!) to capture creative labor markets - and then sets out an extensive series of detailed, shovel-ready solutions for taking them back, to get artists paid.

'What if we could reimagine copyright?' (ed, with Professor Kimberlee Weatherall, 2017) poses a radical thought experiment: what if we could start with a blank slate, and write ourselves a brand new copyright system? What if we could design a law, from sc Rebecca Giblin is a professor at Melbourne Law School, where she researches at the intersection of law and culture. Her three books take new lenses to cultural challenges, using them to disentangle seemingly intractable problems.

'CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM' (with Cory Doctorow, 2022), deconstructs the playbook used by Big Business (like Amazon!) to capture creative labor markets - and then sets out an extensive series of detailed, shovel-ready solutions for taking them back, to get artists paid.

'What if we could reimagine copyright?' (ed, with Professor Kimberlee Weatherall, 2017) poses a radical thought experiment: what if we could start with a blank slate, and write ourselves a brand new copyright system? What if we could design a law, from scratch, unconstrained by existing treaty obligations, business models and questions of political feasibility? Would we opt for radical overhaul, or would we keep our current fundamentals? Which parts of the system would we jettison? Which would we keep? In short, what might a copyright system designed to further the public interest in the current legal and sociological environment actually look like? By asking these questions, a team of experts from around the world shine new light on problems with the existing system - and highlight new possibilities for achievable reform.

'Code Wars' (2011) develops a compelling new theory to explain why a decade of ostensibly successful litigation failed to reduce the number, variety or availability of P2P file sharing applications – and highlights ways the law might need to change if it is to have any meaningful effect in future. (Please don't pay the outrageous academic publishing rate for a physical copy - it's available on most ebook platforms for a fraction of the price, and many college libraries hold the hardback.)

Rebecca (she/her) lives mostly in Melbourne, Australia, on unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nations. She's passionate about promoting artists' rights and access to knowledge and culture. Outside of that you can usually find her talking, dancing, hiking, running, cooking, doing yoga, talking intensely to all kinds of people about all kinds of things, or reveling in all things ridiculous.
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	Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back by Rebecca Giblin (Goodreads Author), Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 1,386 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Code Wars: 10 Years of P2P Software Litigation 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	"Transparency Rights" - Chapter 13 of Chokepoint Capitalism: A Kindle/Audible Exclusive by Rebecca Giblin (Goodreads Author), Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What if We Could Reimagine Copyright? by Rebecca Giblin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kimberlee Weatherall (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Copyright Reversion: Reclaiming Lost Culture and Getting Creators Paid by Joshua Yuvaraj, Rebecca Giblin (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“As William Deresiewicz points out in The Death of the Artist, “If you can only sell your product to a single entity, it’s not your customer; it’s your boss.”29”
― Rebecca Giblin, Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

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“Business schools teach baby MBAs the same lessons: to avoid industries with high competition, to do what it takes to keep potential competitors out, and, if all else fails, to buy them up.17 Warren Buffett explains that, in business, he looks “for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats,”18 because “the products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors.”19 That”
― Rebecca Giblin, Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

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“The more you look, the more it seems that everything in the ad-tech stack is fraudulent: fake audiences firing fake clicks at fake videos on fake sites that suck real dollars out of advertisers’ accounts.”
― Rebecca Giblin, Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

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