Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British
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ger,
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, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog
Boing BoingBoing Boing is a publishing entity, first established as a magazine, later becoming a group blog.-History:...
. He is an activist in favour of liberalising
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laws and a proponent of the
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organization, using some of their licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include
digital rights managementDigital rights management is a class of access control technologies that are used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals with the intent to limit the use of digital content and devices after sale. DRM is any technology that inhibits uses of digital content that...
,
file sharingFile sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia , documents, or electronic books. It may be implemented through a variety of ways...
, and "
post-scarcityPost scarcity is a hypothetical form of economy or society, in which things such as goods, services and information are free, or practically free...
" economics.
Life and career
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to
TrotskyistTrotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky considered himself an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, arguing for the establishment of a vanguard party of the working-class...
teachers, Doctorow was raised in a
Jewish activistThe term "Jewish left" describes Jews who identify with or support left wing, occasionally liberal causes, consciously as Jews, either as individuals or through organizations. There is no one organization or movement which constitutes the "Jewish left," however...
household. His father was born in a refugee camp in
AzerbaijanAzerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
and Doctorow became involved in the
nuclear disarmamentNuclear disarmament refers to both the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons and to the end state of a nuclear-free world, in which nuclear weapons are completely eliminated....
movement and as a
GreenpeaceGreenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...
campaigner as a child. He received his
high school diplomaThe Ontario Academic Credit or OAC was part of the curriculum codified by the Ontario Ministry of Education in Ontario Schools: Intermediate and Senior and its revisions. In common parlance, the term is used to describe the fifth high school year that used to exist in the province of...
from SEED School, an anarchistic "free school" in Toronto, and attended four universities without attaining a degree.
He later served on the
board of directorsA board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. Other names include board of governors, board of managers, board of regents, board of trustees, and board of visitors...
for the Grindstone Island Co-operative in
Big Rideau LakeThe Big Rideau Lake is a lake situated in the province of Ontario , Canada. The lake is located to the southwest of Ottawa, Canada's capital city. It is long and is wide. The lake is much narrower at its northeastern end than at its southwestern end. The lake forms part of the Rideau Waterway,...
in Ontario.
In 1992 Doctorow went on a volunteer trip to Costa Rica with
Youth Challenge International (YCI)Youth Challenge International is a youth-centred, non-profit, non-religious, non-governmental organization focused on international development issues. It aims to equip developing country youth with skills and resources to contribute positively to their communities as well as engage Canadian youth...
, which he found "profoundly good and profoundly enriching".
In June 1999, he co-founded the
free softwareFree software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
P2PPeer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads among peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application...
company
OpencolaOpenCola was a Toronto-based software company founded in 1999 by Grad Conn, Cory Doctorow and John Henson to create "collaboration object lookup architecture" software, and sold in 2003. The software and specifications produced were all released as open source...
with John Henson and Grad Conn. The company was sold to the
Open Text CorporationOpenText Corporation Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. As Canada's largest software company, it produces and distributes computer software applications designed to enable Enterprise content management solutions for large corporations across all industries....
of
WaterlooWaterloo is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is the smallest of the three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, and is adjacent to the city of Kitchener....
, Ontario in the summer of 2003.
Doctorow moved to
LondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
and worked as European Affairs Coordinator for the
Electronic Frontier FoundationThe Electronic Frontier Foundation is an international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization based in the United States...
for four years, helping to establish the
Open Rights GroupThe Open Rights Group is a UK-based organisation that works to preserve digital rights and freedoms by campaigning on digital rights issues, acting as a media clearinghouse service putting journalists in touch with experts, and by fostering a community of grassroots activists...
, before quitting to pursue writing full-time in January 2006. Upon his departure, Doctorow was named a Fellow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
He was named the 2006-2007 Canadian Fulbright Chair for
Public DiplomacyIn international relations, public diplomacy or people's diplomacy, broadly speaking, is the communication with foreign publics to establish a dialogue designed to inform and influence. There is no one definition of Public Diplomacy, and may be easier described than easily defined as definitions...
at the
USC Center on Public DiplomacyThe University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy is a joint academic research, teaching and training center created and run jointly by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences' School of International Relations.Center leadership is...
, sponsored jointly by the Royal Fulbright Commission, the
Integrated Media Systems CenterThe Integrated Media Systems Center is on the campus of the University of Southern California, USA. It was founded using a grant from the US National Science Foundation in 1996 for the study of Integrated Media Systems ....
, and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. The professorship included a one year writing and teaching residency at the
University of Southern CaliforniaThe University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
in
Los AngelesLos Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
.
He then returned to London. He is a frequent public speaker on copyright issues.
In 2009, Doctorow became the first Independent Studies Scholar in Virtual Residence at the
University of WaterlooThe University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff...
in Ontario, Canada. He was formerly a student in the program in 1993-94, but quit without completing a thesis.
Doctorow is married to Alice Taylor, and together they have one daughter, named Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow, who was born in 2008. Cory Doctorow and Alice Taylor married on Sunday, October 26, 2008. Cory became a British citizen by naturalisation on 12 August 2011.
Other work and fellowships
He served as Canadian Regional Director of the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of AmericaScience Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, or SFWA is a nonprofit association of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. It was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight under the name Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc. and it retains the acronym SFWA after a very brief use of the SFFWA...
in 1999.
Together with Austrian art group
monochrommonochrom is an international art-technology-philosophy group, founded in 1993. Its offices are located at Museumsquartier/Vienna ....
he initiated the Instant Blitz Copy Fight project, for which people from all over the world are asked to take flash pictures of copyright warnings in movie theaters.
At the 2003 Torcon 3 World Science Fiction Convention, Doctorow was a featured guest.
On October 31, 2005, Doctorow was involved in a controversy concerning
digital rights managementDigital rights management is a class of access control technologies that are used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals with the intent to limit the use of digital content and devices after sale. DRM is any technology that inhibits uses of digital content that...
with Sony-BMG, as told in
WikinomicsWikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything is a book by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, first published in December 2006. It explores how some companies in the early 21st century have used mass collaboration and open-source technology, such as wikis, to be successful...
.
Doctorow is a regular contributor to the TVOntario podcast
Search EngineSearch Engine was a weekly Canadian radio show that aired on CBC Radio One, then a dedicated podcast available on CBC.ca, and now a podcast on TVOntario's website, tvo.org. It is hosted by Jesse Brown, who also co-produces the show with Geoff Siskind and Andrew Parker. Cory Doctorow, novelist and...
, formerly on CBC.
Fiction
Doctorow began selling fiction when he was 17 years old and sold several stories followed by publication of "Craphound" in 1998.
Down and Out in the Magic KingdomDown and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a 2003 science fiction book, the first novel by Canadian author and digital-rights activist Cory Doctorow...
, Doctorow's first novel, was published in January 2003, and was the first novel released under one of the Creative Commons licences, allowing readers to circulate the electronic edition as long as they neither made money from it nor used it to create derived works. The electronic edition was released simultaneously with the print edition.
In March 2003, it was re-released under a different Creative Commons licence that allowed derivative works such as
fan fictionFan fiction is a broadly-defined term for fan labor regarding stories about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creator...
, but still prohibited commercial usage. It was nominated for a
Nebula AwardThe Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year...
, and won the
Locus AwardThe Locus Award is a literary award established in 1971 and presented to winners of Locus magazine's annual readers' poll. Currently, the Locus Awards are presented at an annual banquet...
for Best First Novel in 2004. A semi-sequel short story called
Truncat was published on
Salon.comSalon.com, part of Salon Media Group , often just called Salon, is an online liberal magazine, with content updated each weekday. Salon was founded by David Talbot and launched on November 20, 1995. It was the internet's first online-only commercial publication. The magazine focuses on U.S...
in August 2003.
Doctorow's other novels have been released with Creative Commons licences that allow derived works and prohibit commercial usage, and he has used the model of making digital versions available, without charge, at the same time that print versions are published.
His
Sunburst AwardThe Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual award given for a speculative fiction novel or a book-length collection.-History:The name of the award comes from the title of the first novel by Phyllis Gotlieb, Sunburst ....
-winning short story collection
A Place So Foreign and Eight MoreA Place So Foreign and Eight More is a collection of short stories by Cory Doctorow. Six of these stories were released electronically under a Creative Commons license. A paperback edition was issued in New York by publisher Four Walls Eight Windows in 2003 with ISBN 1-56858-286-2...
, was also published in 2004: "0wnz0red" from this collection was nominated for the 2004
Nebula AwardThe Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year...
for Best Novelette.
Doctorow released the bestselling novel
Little BrotherLittle Brother is a novel by Cory Doctorow, published by Tor Books. It was released on April 29, 2008. The novel is about several teenagers in San Francisco who, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge and BART system, defend themselves against the...
in 2008 under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike licence. It was nominated for a 2009
Hugo AwardThe Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...
, and won the 2009
Prometheus AwardThe Prometheus Award is an award for libertarian science fiction novels given annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society, which also publishes a quarterly journal Prometheus. L. Neil Smith established the award in 1979, but it was not awarded regularly until the newly founded Libertarian Futurist...
, Sunburst Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
MakersMakers is a novel by Cory Doctorow. It was released in October 2009. The novel is available free on the author's website, as a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA download...
was released in October 2009, and is being serialized for free on the
Tor BooksTor Books is one of two imprints of Tom Doherty Associates LLC, based in New York City. It is noted for its science fiction and fantasy titles. Tom Doherty Associates also publishes mainstream fiction, mystery, and occasional military history titles under its Forge imprint. The company was founded...
website.
Doctorow's newest young adult novel,
For The WinFor The Win is the second young adult science fiction novel by Canadian author Cory Doctorow. It was released in May 2010. The novel is available free on the author's website as a Creative Commons download, and is also published in traditional paper form by Tor Books.The book is centered around...
, was released in May 2010. The novel is available free on the author's website as a Creative Commons download, and is also published in traditional paper format by Tor Books. The book concerns massively multiplayer online role-playing games.
Doctorow's short story collection "With a Little Help" was released in printed format on May 3, 2011. It is a project to demonstrate the profitability of Doctorow's method of releasing his books in print and subsequently for free under Creative Commons. There is a post-publication progress report which can be viewed on Doctorow's website.
Nonfiction and other writings
Doctorow's nonfiction works include his first book,
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science FictionThe Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction was written by Cory Doctorow and Karl Schroeder and published as part of The Complete Idiot's Guide series of non-fiction manuals by Alpha Books -Description:...
(co-written with
Karl SchroederKarl Schroeder is an award-winning Canadian science fiction author. His novels present far-future speculations on topics such as nanotechnology, terraforming, augmented reality and interstellar travel, and have a deeply philosophical streak...
and published in 2000), and his contributions to
Boing BoingBoing Boing is a publishing entity, first established as a magazine, later becoming a group blog.-History:...
, the weblog he co-edits, as well as regular columns in the magazines
Popular SciencePopular Science is an American monthly magazine founded in 1872 carrying articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects. Popular Science has won over 58 awards, including the ASME awards for its journalistic excellence in both 2003 and 2004...
and
MakeMake is an American quarterly magazine published by O'Reilly Media which focuses on do it yourself and/or DIWO projects involving computers, electronics, robotics, metalworking, woodworking and other disciplines...
. He is a Contributing Writer to
Wired magazine, and contributes occasionally to other magazines and newspapers such as the
New York Times Sunday Magazine, the
Globe and Mail,
Asimov's Science FictionAsimov's Science Fiction is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy and perpetuates the name of author and biochemist Isaac Asimov...
magazine, and the
Boston Globe. In 2004, he wrote an essay on Wikipedia included in
The Anthology at the End of the Universe, comparing Internet attempts at Hitchhiker's Guide-type resources, including a discussion of the Wikipedia article about himself.
Doctorow contributed the foreword to
Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a.
DJ SpookyPaul D. Miller , known by his stage name DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called by critics or his fans as "illbient" or "trip hop". He is a turntablist, a producer, a philosopher, and an author...
. He also was a contributing writer for the book
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century.
He popularized the term "
metacrapMetacrap is a portmanteau drawn from metadata and crap. The origin of the word is unknown, but it was popularized by Cory Doctorow in a 2001 essay titled "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia."...
" by a 2001 essay titled "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia." Some of his non-fiction published between 2001 and 2007 has been collected by
Tachyon PublicationsTachyon Publications is an independent press specializing in science fiction and fantasy books. Founded in San Francisco in 1995 by Jacob Weisman, Tachyon books have tended toward high-end literary works, short story collections, and anthologies....
as
Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future.
Opinions on intellectual property
Doctorow believes that copyright laws should be liberalized to allow for free sharing of all digital media. He has also advocated filesharing. He argues that copyright holders should have a monopoly on
selling their own digital media, and copyright laws should only be operative when someone attempts to sell a product currently under someone else's copyright.
Doctorow is an opponent of Digital Rights Management, claiming that it limits the free sharing of digital media and frequently causes problems for legitimate users (including registration problems that lock users out of their own purchases and prevent them from being able to move their media to other devices and platforms).
In popular culture
The
webcomicWebcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or often in self-published books....
xkcdxkcd is a webcomic created by Randall Munroe. The comic's tagline describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." It has been recognized in such mainstream media as The Guardian and The New York Times....
occasionally features a partially fictional version of Doctorow who lives in a
hot air balloonThe hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. It is in a class of aircraft known as balloon aircraft. On November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, the first untethered manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a hot air...
"up in" the
blogosphereThe blogosphere is made up of all blogs and their interconnections. The term implies that blogs exist together as a connected community or as a social network in which everyday authors can publish their opinions...
("above the tag clouds") and wears a red cape and goggles, such as in the comic "Blagofaire". When Doctorow won the 2007
EFF Pioneer AwardThe EFF Pioneer Award is an annual prize for people who have made significant contributions to the empowerment of individuals in using computers. Until 1998 it was presented at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., USA. Thereafter it was presented at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference...
, the presenters gave him a red cape, goggles and a balloon.
Awards
- 2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
- 2004 Locus Award for Best First Novel
Winners of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, awarded by the Locus magazine. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year....
for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
- 2004 Sunburst Award
The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual award given for a speculative fiction novel or a book-length collection.-History:The name of the award comes from the title of the first novel by Phyllis Gotlieb, Sunburst ....
for A Place So Foreign and Eight MoreA Place So Foreign and Eight More is a collection of short stories by Cory Doctorow. Six of these stories were released electronically under a Creative Commons license. A paperback edition was issued in New York by publisher Four Walls Eight Windows in 2003 with ISBN 1-56858-286-2...
- 2007 The Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is an international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization based in the United States...
Pioneer Award
- For Little Brother:
- 2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award
- 2009 Prometheus Award
The Prometheus Award is an award for libertarian science fiction novels given annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society, which also publishes a quarterly journal Prometheus. L. Neil Smith established the award in 1979, but it was not awarded regularly until the newly founded Libertarian Futurist...
- 2009 Sunburst Award.
- 2009 White Pine Award
The White Pine Award is an annual literature award sponsored by the Ontario Library Association that has awarded Canadian young adult books since 2002...
Science fiction novels
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a 2003 science fiction book, the first novel by Canadian author and digital-rights activist Cory Doctorow...
(Tor Books, 2003) under a Creative Commons Licence
- Eastern Standard Tribe
Eastern Standard Tribe is a 2004 novel by Cory Doctorow. Like Doctorow's first two books, the entire text was released under a Creative Commons license on Doctorow's website, allowing the whole text of the book to be read for free and distributed without the publisher's permission.-Plot...
(Tor Books, 2004) under a Creative Commons Licence
- Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is a contemporary fantasy novel by Canadian author Cory Doctorow. It was published in June, 2005, concurrently released on the Internet under a Creative Commons license, free for download in several formats including ASCII and PDF...
(Tor Books, 2005) and under a Creative Commons Licence
- Little Brother
Little Brother is a novel by Cory Doctorow, published by Tor Books. It was released on April 29, 2008. The novel is about several teenagers in San Francisco who, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge and BART system, defend themselves against the...
(Tor Books, 2008) and under a Creative Commons Licence
- Makers
Makers is a novel by Cory Doctorow. It was released in October 2009. The novel is available free on the author's website, as a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA download...
(Tor Books, 2009) and under a Creative Commons Licence
- For The Win (Tor Books, 2010) and under a Creative Commons Licence
- Pirate Cinema (Tor Books, May 2012) and under a Creative Commons Licence
Short stories and anthologies
- 0wnz0red, short story, 2002
- Truncat (short story) -- a quasi-sequel to Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, 2003
- A Place So Foreign and Eight More
A Place So Foreign and Eight More is a collection of short stories by Cory Doctorow. Six of these stories were released electronically under a Creative Commons license. A paperback edition was issued in New York by publisher Four Walls Eight Windows in 2003 with ISBN 1-56858-286-2...
(short story collection, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003)
- I, Robot (Hugo nominated short story, InfiniteMatrix.net, 2005)
- Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present
Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present is a collection of previously published science fiction short stories and novellas by Cory Doctorow...
(short story collection, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007) ISBN 1560259817
- Scroogled originally appeared in Radar, 2007
- True Names, (short story with Benjamin Rosenbaum
Benjamin Rosenbaum is an American science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction writer and computer programmer, whose stories have been finalists for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the BSFA award, and the World Fantasy Award...
) in Fast Forward 2, edited by Lou AndersLou Anders is an American editor, author and journalist, primarily of science fiction/fantasy novels, articles and short stories.-Biography and journalism:...
, ISBN 978-1-59102-692-1, 2008
- There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow / Now is the Best Time of Your Life (97 pgs.; in an edited anthology, 2010)
- With A Little Help, (short stories collection, December 2010)
- Chicken Little (from short story anthology, Gateways, edited by Elizabeth Anne Hull, April 2011)
Other
- Ebooks: Neither E Nor Books. (February 12, 2004)
- Glenn Yeffeth, ed., The Anthology at the End of the Universe?, chapter titled "Wikipedia: A Genuine H2G2-Minus the Editors", by Cory Doctorow, Benbella Books ISBN 1-932100-56-3
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction was written by Cory Doctorow and Karl Schroeder and published as part of The Complete Idiot's Guide series of non-fiction manuals by Alpha Books -Description:...
(self-help, Alpha Books, 2000)
- Essential Blogging (tech help, O'Reilly and Associates, 2002). ISBN 0-596-00388-9
- /usr/bin/god
/usr/bin/god was a planned hard science fiction novel by Cory Doctorow, originally intended to be published by Tor Books. The story was to involve an out-of-control artificially intelligent spam filter, nerd culture, Extropian cultists, and "the end of the world", and evolved in part from an...
(novel; Tor Books) — In a June 11, 2008 interview with the Onion's A.V. Club, Doctorow stated that the book was "on the shelf more or less permanently, although it might be resurrected at some point".
- Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future (September, 2008)
- Context: Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century (October, 2011)
- There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow / Now is the Best Time of Your Life (Novella, forthcoming in 2011)
External links
- Cory Doctorow's personal website
- Boing Boing blog
- BookBanter interviews Cory Doctorow
- Cory Doctorow's USC Course
- When Cory Doctorow Ruled the World (February 2007 interview, with link to audio)
- Video of keynote speech at LIFT06 conference
- Video of Cory Doctor's lecture, "Copyright versus Universal Access to All Human Knowledge and Groups Without Cost: the state of play in the global copyfight" at the Quantum to Cosmos Festival
- Manifesto for a virtual revolution: 2010 interview with Tom Chatfield, discussing For the Win
For The Win is the second young adult science fiction novel by Canadian author Cory Doctorow. It was released in May 2010. The novel is available free on the author's website as a Creative Commons download, and is also published in traditional paper form by Tor Books.The book is centered around...
and cyber-activism
- Rethinking Privacy in an Age of Disclosure and Sharing discussion with Peter Barron
Peter Barron is Google's head of public relations for Britain, Ireland and the Benelux countries.Immediately prior to his appointment in 2008 the Belfast-born journalist had for four years been editor of the BBC programme Newsnight.-References:...
, Claire FoxClaire Fox , also known as Claire Foster, is a British writer. She is the director and founder of the British think tank, the Institute of Ideas, and a prominent former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party....
, Norman Lewis of Wireless Grids Corporation, and Anna MintonAnna Minton is a British writer and journalist. Born 19 April 1970, educated at St.Paul's Girls' School, London and Queen's College Oxford. Minton has worked as a foreign correspondent, business reporter and social affairs writer and has won a number of national journalism awards...
at The Institute of Ideas, October 2009
- For the Win book talk at Books Inc., May 2010