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Cory Doctorow to speak at UNC at Chapel Hill
Feb. 2 , 2007 - Science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist, Cory Doctorow will be on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 2 p.m. He will be speaking in the Pleasants Family Room of the Wilson Library.
Doctorow is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing, and a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, the New York Times, and many other newspapers, magazines and Web sites.
He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. In that capacity, he worked to balance international treaties, polices and standards on copyright and related rights, advocating in the halls of governments, the United Nations, standards bodies, corporations, universities and non-profit. Presently, he serves as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. His novels are published by Tor Books and simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their re-use and sharing, a move that increases his sales by enlisting his readers to help promote his work. He has won the Locus and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards. He co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, sold to OpenText, Inc in 2003, and presently serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the MetaBrainz Foundation, Technorati, Inc, Stikkit, Annenberg Center for the Study of Online Communities, SiteShuffle, and Onion Networks, Inc. His latest novel is Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
Cory will also be speaking at Duke University on February 22 at 5:00 p.m. as part of the Provost Lecture Series.
Sponsors include: ibiblio.org; the School of Journalism and Mass Communication; Free Culture Carolina, UNC's chapter of an international student movement dedicated to copyright law reform; and the School of Information and Library Science.