Cory Doctorow

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Cory Efram Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.

He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books.

Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.

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Life and career

Cory Efram Doctorow was born in Toronto, Ontario, on July 17th, 1971. He is of eastern European Jewish descent. His paternal grandfather was born in Poland, but his paternal grandmother was born in Leningrad. Both fled Nazi Germany during World War II, and as a result, Doctorow's father was born in a refugees camp near Baku, Azerbaijan. From the Soviet Union, his grandparents and father immigrated to Canada. The doctorow's mother's relatives were Ukrainian-Russian Romanian Romanians.

Doctorow was a friend of Columbia law professor Tim Wu, and he and his sister shared time in elementary school. Doctorow spent summer camp at Grindstone Island, Ontario, which was influential on his intellectual growth and development. He left high school, received his Ontario Academic Credit (high school diploma) from the SEED School in Toronto, and attended four universities without earning a degree.

Cory Doctorow has stated that he is not related to American novelist E. L. Doctorow and that he might be a third cousin of the novelist who has been rejected.

Doctorow co-founded Opencola, a free software P2P venture in June 1999, with John Henson and Grad Conn, who then sold the Open Text Corporation of Waterloo, Ontario in the summer of 2003. As part of its advertising campaign, the company used OpenCola, a fruit drink.

Doctorow later moved to London and spent four years as the European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, helping to establish the Open Rights Group before he resigned from the EFF to pursue writing full time in January 2006. He was the Canadian Fulbright Chair for Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, which is jointly sponsored by the Royal Fulbright Commission, the Integrated Media Systems Center, and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy from 2005 to 2007. At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, United States, the professorship involved a one-year writing and teaching internship. He returned to London, but remained a regular public speaker on copyright issues.

Doctorow was the first Independent Studies Scholar in Virtual Residence at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 2009. He participated in the program from 1993-94 but was left without a thesis. Doctorow is also a visiting professor at the Open University in the United Kingdom. In 2012, he was granted an honorary doctorate from The Open University.

Doctorow married Alice Taylor in October 2008; they have a daughter named Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow, who was born in 2008. Doctorow became a British citizen by naturalization on August 12, 2011.

Doctorow's 2015 decision to leave London and relocate to Los Angeles, expressing dissatisfaction with London's "death" following the country's election of a tyrant global elite; "London is a playground for corrupt global elites who turn neighbourhoods into soulless piles of empty safe-deposit boxes in the sky; and fostering the finance industry's feckless criminality. These two facts are not unrelated." In January 2015, he rejoined the EFF to campaign for the abolishment of digital rights management (DRM).

Doctorow left Boing Boing in January 2020 and shortly started a solo blogging project called Pluralistic. Doctorow's deposition from the website were uncertain at the time, though Doctorow acknowledged that he was a co-owner of Boing Boing Boing Boing Boing. MetaFilter's analysis of Doctorow and Boing Boing's 19-year union as "the equivalent of the Beatles breaking up" for the blog world. Doctorow's departure was not confirmed by Boing Boing, with his name being quietly deleted from the list of editors on January 29, 2020.

Doctorow was the Canadian Regional Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1999.

He created Instant Blitz Copy Fight in 2007, a collaboration between Austrian art firm monochrom, which encourages people from all around the world to take flash pictures of copyright warnings in movie theaters.

Doctorow was implicated in a controversy concerning digital rights management with Sony-BMG on October 31, 2005, as I explained in Wikinomics.

Doctorow supports the Tor anonymity network during his worldwide travels, while Boing Boing runs a "high-speed, high-quality exit node."

Doctorow was the keynote speaker at the 2016 Hackers on Planet Earth conference in July.

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Awards

• 2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
• 2004 Locus Award for Best First Novel for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
• 2004 Sunburst Award for A Place So Foreign and Eight More
• 2006 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "I, Robot"
• 2007 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth"
• 2007 The Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award