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Cory Efram Doctorow (; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British〔(And so @doctorow is a British citizen! ) on his wife, Alice Taylor's Twitter stream, 12 August 2011〕 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 licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics. ==Life and career== Doctorow was born in Toronto, Ontario. His father was born in a refugee camp in Azerbaijan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Azeri "donkey video" bloggers arrested )〕 Although he is an admirer of acclaimed novelist E.L. Doctorow, the two are of no known relation, contrary to popular belief; the surname "Doctorow" being somewhat common amongst Jewish people of Eastern European descent.〔http://bbs.boingboing.net/t/rip-el-doctorow/62222〕〔http://boingboing.net/2015/07/21/rip-el-doctorow.html〕 In elementary school, Doctorow befriended Tim Wu. He received his high school diploma from the SEED School, and attended four universities without attaining a degree.〔According to this citation, Doctorow quit high school → 〕 He later served on the board of directors for the Grindstone Island Co-operative in Big Rideau Lake in Ontario. In June 1999, he co-founded the free software P2P company Opencola with John Henson and Grad Conn. The company was sold to the Open Text Corporation of Waterloo, Ontario, during the summer of 2003.〔 Doctorow later relocated to London and worked as European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation for four years,〔 helping to establish the Open Rights Group, before leaving the EFF to pursue writing full-time in January 2006. Upon his departure, Doctorow was named a Fellow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.〔 He was named the 2006–2007 Canadian Fulbright Chair for Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, sponsored jointly by the Royal Fulbright Commission, the Integrated Media Systems Center, and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. The professorship included a one-year writing and teaching residency at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 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 in Ontario.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://is.uwaterloo.ca/staff_archive.htm )〕 He was a student in the program during 1993–94, but quit without completing a thesis. Doctorow is also a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Open University in the United Kingdom.〔 In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from The Open University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.open.ac.uk/students/ceremonies/files/ceremonies/file/Graduate-Directory-2012-WEB.pdf )〕 Doctorow married Alice Taylor in October 2008, and together they have one 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, moving to Los Angeles for feeling disappointed of London's "death" from Britain's choice of Tory government - He claims on his blog "But 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."〔http://boingboing.net/2015/06/29/why-im-leaving-london.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cory Doctorow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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