Cory Efram Doctorow (; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British
blog
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ger,
journalist
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, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog ''
Boing Boing''. He is an activist in favour of liberalising
copyright
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laws and a proponent of the
Creative Commons
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organization, using some of their licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include
digital rights management
Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures (TPM) such as access control technologies can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted work ...
,
file sharing
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, and
post-scarcity economics.
Life and career
Cory Efram Doctorow was born in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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, on 17 July 1971. He is of
Eastern Europe
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an
Jewish
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descent. His paternal grandfather was born in what is now Poland and his paternal grandmother was from
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
. Both fled
Nazi Germany
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's advance eastward during
World War II
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, and as a result Doctorow's father was born in a
displaced person
Forced displacement (also forced migration) is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region. The UNHCR defines 'forced displacement' as follows: displaced "as a result of persecution, conflict, g ...
s camp near
Baku, Azerbaijan. His grandparents and father emigrated to
Canada
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from the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
.
Doctorow's mother's family were Ukrainian-Russian Romanians.
Doctorow was a friend of
Columbia law professor
Tim Wu, dating to their time together in elementary school.
Doctorow went to summer camp as a young teenager at what he has described as a "hippy summer camp" at
Grindstone Island, near
Portland, Ontario, that was influential on his intellectual life and development. He quit high school,
received his
Ontario Academic Credit (high school diploma) from the
SEED School in Toronto, and attended four universities without obtaining a degree.
Cory Doctorow has stated both that he is not related to the American novelist
E. L. Doctorow
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction.
He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction and a stage drama. They included ...
and that he may be a third cousin once removed of the novelist.
In June 1999, Doctorow co-founded the
free software
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P2P company Opencola with John Henson and Grad Conn, which sold to the
Open Text Corporation of
Waterloo, Ontario
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in the summer of 2003.
The company used a drink called ''
OpenCola'' as part of its promotional campaign.
Doctorow later relocated to
London
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and worked as European Affairs Coordinator for the
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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for four years,
[ helping to establish the ]Open Rights Group
The Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based organisation that works to preserve digital rights and freedoms by campaigning on digital rights issues and by fostering a community of grassroots activists. It campaigns on numerous issues including m ...
, before leaving the EFF to pursue writing full-time in January 2006; Doctorow remained a Fellow of the EFF for some time after his departure from the EFF Staff.[ He was named the 2006–2007 Canadian ]Fulbright
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Chair for Public Diplomacy
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at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy
The USC Center on Public Diplomacy (CPD) was established in 2003 as a partnership between the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences' School of International Relations at the University ...
, sponsored jointly by the Royal Fulbright Commission, the Integrated Media Systems Center The Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) is on the campus of the University of Southern California, United States. It was founded using a grant from the US National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent ...
, and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. The professorship included a one-year writing and teaching residency at the University of Southern California
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in Los Angeles
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, United States.[ He then returned to London, but remained a frequent public speaker on copyright issues.
In 2009, Doctorow became the first Independent Studies Scholar in Virtual Residence at the ]University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to "Uptown" Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also operates ...
in Ontario. He was a student in the program during 1993–94, but left without completing a thesis. Doctorow is also a Visiting Professor at the Open University
The Open University (OU) is a British Public university, public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by List of universities in the United Kingdom by enrolment, number of students. The majority of the OU's underg ...
in the United Kingdom. In 2012 he was awarded 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 naturalisation on 12 August 2011.
In 2015, Doctorow decided to leave London and move to Los Angeles, expressing disappointment at London's "death" after Britain's choice of Conservative
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government; he stated at the time, "London is a city whose two priorities are being a playground for corrupt global elites who turn neighbourhoods into soulless collections of empty safe-deposit boxes in the sky, and encouraging the feckless criminality of the finance industry. These two facts are not unrelated." He rejoined the EFF in January 2015 to campaign for the eradication of digital rights management (DRM).
Doctorow left ''Boing Boing'' in January 2020, and soon started a solo blogging project titled ''Pluralistic''. The circumstances surrounding Doctorow's exit from the website were unclear at the time, although Doctorow acknowledged that he remained a co-owner of ''Boing Boing''. Given the end of the 19-year association between Doctorow and ''Boing Boing'', MetaFilter described this news as "the equivalent of the Beatles
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breaking up" for the blog world. Doctorow's exit was not acknowledged by Boing Boing, with his name being quietly removed from the list of editors on 29 January 2020.
Other work, activism, and fellowships
Doctorow served as Canadian Regional Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
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in 1999.
In 2007, together with Austrian art group monochrom, he initiated the ''Instant Blitz Copy Fight'' project, which asks people from all over the world to take flash pictures of copyright warnings in movie theaters.
On October 31, 2005, Doctorow was involved in a controversy concerning digital rights management
Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures (TPM) such as access control technologies can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted work ...
with Sony-BMG
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, as told in ''Wikinomics
''Wikinomics: 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 ...
''.
As a user of the Tor anonymity network for more than a decade during his global travels, Doctorow publicly supports the network; furthermore, Boing Boing operates a "high speed, high-quality exit node."
Doctorow was the keynote speaker at the July 2016 Hackers on Planet Earth conference.
Fiction
Doctorow began selling fiction when he was 17 years old, and sold several stories, followed by publication of the story "Craphound" in 1998.[
'']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. Concurrent with its publication by Tor Books, Doctorow released the entire text of the novel unde ...
'', 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 February 2004, it was re-released with a different Creative Commons license that allowed derivative works such as fan fiction
Fan fiction or fanfiction (also abbreviated to fan fic, fanfic, fic or FF) is fictional writing written in an amateur capacity by fans, unauthorized by, but based on an existing work of fiction. The author uses copyrighted characters, setti ...
, but still prohibited commercial usage.
''Down and Out...'' was nominated for a Nebula Award
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, and won the Locus Award
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for Best First Novel in 2004. A semi-sequel short story named ''Truncat'' was published on Salon.com in August 2003.
His novel ''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 ...
,'' published in June 2005, was chosen to launch the Sci-Fi Channel's book club, Sci-Fi Essentials (now defunct).
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 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, ''Sunburs ...
-winning short story collection ''A Place So Foreign and Eight More
''A Place So Foreign and Eight More'' is a collection of short stories by Canadian-British writer Cory Doctorow. Six of these stories were released electronically under a Creative Commons license. A paperback edition was issued in New York by publ ...
'' was also published in 2004: " 0wnz0red" from this collection was nominated for the 2004 Nebula Award
The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States. The awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), a nonprofit association of prof ...
for Best Novelette.
Doctorow released the bestselling novel '' Little Brother'' in 2008 with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike licence. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2009. and won the 2009 Prometheus Award, Sunburst Award, and the 2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
His novel '' Makers'' was released in October 2009, and was serialised for free on the Tor Books
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website.
Doctorow released another young adult novel
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The subject matter and genres of YA correlate ...
, ''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 tradit ...
'', 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 is about "greenfarming", and 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.
In September 2012, Doctorow released '' The Rapture of the Nerds'', a novel written in collaboration with Charles Stross.
Doctorow's ]young adult novel
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The subject matter and genres of YA correlate ...
''Pirate Cinema
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'' was released in October 2012. It won the 2013 Prometheus Award.
In February 2013, Doctorow released '' Homeland'', the sequel to his novel ''Little Brother''. It won the 2014 Prometheus Award (Doctorow's third novel to win this award).
His novel '' Walkaway'' was released in 2017.
In March 2019, Doctorow released '' Radicalized'', a collection of four self-contained science-fiction novellas dealing with how life in America could be in the near future. The book was selected for the 2020 edition of ''Canada Reads
''Canada Reads'' is an annual "battle of the books" competition organized and broadcast by Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC. The program has aired in two distinct editions, the English-language ''Canada Reads'' on CBC Radio One, and the Frenc ...
'', in which it was defended by Akil Augustine.
''Attack Surface'', a standalone adult novel set in the "Little Brother" universe, was released on October 13, 2020.
Nonfiction and other writings
Doctorow's nonfiction works include his first book, '' The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction'' (co-written with Karl Schroeder and published in 2000), his contributions to Boing Boing, the blog he co-edits, as well as regular columns in the magazines ''Popular Science
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'' and '' Make''. 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
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...
'', '' Asimov's Science Fiction'' magazine, and the ''Boston Globe
''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Gl ...
''.
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 Spooky. He also was a contributing writer to the book ''Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century''.
He popularised the term " metacrap" 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 Publications as ''Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future''. In 2016 he wrote the article ''Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood-Hacker'' (published on MIT Technology Review) as a review of the TV show Mr. Robot
''Mr. Robot'' is an American drama thriller television series created by Sam Esmail for USA Network. It stars Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker with social anxiety disorder, clinical depression and dissociati ...
and argued for a better portrayal and understanding of technology, computers and their risks and consequences in our modern world.
His essay "You Can't Own Knowledge" is included in the Freesouls
''FREESOULS: Captured and Released by Joi Ito'' is a book by Joi Ito featuring 296 photographic portraits of members of the free culture movement. The project began in 2007 as way for Ito to freely distribute, through a Creative Commons Attr ...
book project.
He is the originator of Doctorow's Law: "Anytime someone puts a lock on something you own, against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit."
Writing in the Guardian
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in2022, Doctorow listed the many problems confronting Facebook
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and suggested that its future would be increasingly fraught.
Opinions on intellectual property
Doctorow believes that copyright laws should be liberalised 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 that copyright laws should not be operative unless someone attempts to sell a product that is under someone else's copyright.
Doctorow is an opponent of digital rights management
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and claims 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).
He was a keynote speaker at the 2014 international conference CopyCamp in Warsaw
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with the presentation "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free."
In popular culture
The webcomic
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Webcomics can be c ...
'' xkcd'' occasionally features a partially fictional version of Doctorow who lives in a hot air balloon
A hot air balloon is a lighter-than-air aircraft consisting of a bag, called an envelope, which contains heated air. Suspended beneath is a gondola or wicker basket (in some long-distance or high-altitude balloons, a capsule), which carries ...
up in the " blogosphere" ("above the tag clouds") and wears a red cape and goggles, such as in the comic
Blagofaire
. When Doctorow won the 2007 EFF Pioneer Award, the presenters gave him a red cape, goggles and a balloon.
The novel '' Ready Player One'' features a mention of Doctorow as being the newly re-elected President of the OASIS User Council (with Wil Wheaton
Richard William Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American actor. He portrayed Wesley Crusher on the television series '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', Gordie Lachance in the film '' Stand by Me'', Joey Trotta in '' Toy Soldiers'', ...
as his vice-president) in the year 2044, saying that, "those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade."
The comedic role-playing game
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''Kingdom of Loathing
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'' features a boss-fight against a monster
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named Doctor Oh, who is described as wearing a red cape and goggles. The commentary before the fight and assorted hit, miss and fumble messages during the battle make reference to Doctorow's advocacy for open-source sharing and freedom of media.
Awards
* 2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
* 2004 Locus Award for Best First Novel
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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, ''Sunburs ...
for ''A Place So Foreign and Eight More
''A Place So Foreign and Eight More'' is a collection of short stories by Canadian-British writer Cory Doctorow. Six of these stories were released electronically under a Creative Commons license. A paperback edition was issued in New York by publ ...
''
* 2006 Locus Award for Best Novelette The Locus Award for Best Novelette is one of a series of Locus Awards given annually by Locus Magazine
''Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field'', founded in 1968, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, Califor ...
for "I, Robot
''I, Robot'' is a fixup (compilation) novel of science fiction short stories or essays by American writer Isaac Asimov. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines ''Super Science Stories'' and ''Astounding Science Fiction'' be ...
"
* 2007 Locus Award for Best Novelette The Locus Award for Best Novelette is one of a series of Locus Awards given annually by Locus Magazine
''Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field'', founded in 1968, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, Califor ...
for "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth"
* 2007 The Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Pioneer Award
;For ''Little Brother'':
* 2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award
* 2009 Prometheus Award
* 2009 Sunburst Award
* 2009 White Pine Award
* 2018 Inkpot Award
;For ''Pirate Cinema''
* 2013 Prometheus Award
;For ''Homeland''
* 2014 Prometheus Award
Bibliography
In chronological sequence, unless otherwise indicated
Fiction
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*''The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow'', November 1, 2011,
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Graphic novels
*''In Real Life''. Illustrated by Jen Wang. First Second. October 14, 2014. .
*''Poesy the Monster Slayer''. Illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. First Second. July 14, 2020. .
Collections
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Short fiction
Non-fiction
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References
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External links
Cory Doctorow's personal website
Pluralistic
daily links by Cory Doctorow
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Presentation of Cory Doctorow "Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free" at the CopyCamp 2014 conference
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Interviews
2019 interview with Doctorow at Cyberpunks.com
2020 interview with Doctorow
by Johannes Grenzfurthner in ''The Free Lunch'' magazine.
2022 interview with Doctorow at sfss.space
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