Cory Doctorow

Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author

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55
Born 1971
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The Internet's Own Boy…
2014

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Updated 2026-06-21

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.