Biography: ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Cory Doctorow (  born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian 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 licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics Description above from the Wikipedia article Cory Doctorow licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.