# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cory-doctorow
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:34:45.486Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cory-doctorow"
name: "Cory Doctorow"
slug: "cory-doctorow"
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 liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of its licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics."
tagline: "Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cory_Doctorow_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1971-07-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 162
platforms:
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    handle:    "cory_doctorow"
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    title: "Cory Doctorow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cory Doctorow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill