page_title: Cory Doctorow
section_title: Other work, activism, and fellowships
hierarchical_section_title: Cory Doctorow / Life and career / Other work, activism, and fellowships
caption_attribution_description: English: Cory Doctorow as character in monochrom's adventure game "Soviet Unterzoegersdorf: Sector 2" (2009)
context_page_description: Cory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served 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.
context_section_description: Doctorow served as Canadian Regional Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America 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 with Sony-BMG, as told in Wikinomics.
  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.
caption: Cory Doctorow as character in monochrom's adventure game "Soviet Unterzoegersdorf: Sector 2" (2009)
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