Keynote: Cory Doctorow, Science Fiction Author, Activist, and Journalist
summary
Argues that interoperability mandates like the EU Digital Markets Act and the proposed U.S. Access Act are necessary but brittle unless paired with legal and technical protection for adversarial interoperability so third parties can legally reverse‑engineer, scrape and build bridges. Cites Facebook shutting APIs and suing projects (ad observer, Power Ventures) to raise switching costs; cites Massachusetts right‑to‑repair (2012 → 2020) as a decade‑long fight and a hypothetical $4 gadget sold for $100 that would have fixed the market. Notes DMCA, CFAA and contracts as blockers and proposes procurement and settlement oversight to enforce com-com.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:05From five websites to tech giants
- 3:54Switching costs and artificial barriers
- 7:45Adversarial interoperability explained
- 11:56Combining mandates and comcom
- 15:05Legal barriers to interoperability
- 17:30Conclusion and call to action
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