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SUMMARY:Thinking Like a Dandelion: Cory Doctorow on copyright\, Creative C
 ommons and creativity - Cory Doctorow
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CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:This is the opening talk in the "Arcadia Project":http://arcad
 iaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/index.php 2009-10 Seminar series.\n\nCory Doctorow
  (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist\, blogger and technology ac
 tivist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.
 net)\, and a contributor to Wired\, Popular Science\, Make\, the New York 
 Times\, and many other newspapers\, magazines and websites. He was formerl
 y Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff
 .org)\, a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technol
 ogy law\, policy\, standards and treaties. He is a Visting Senior Lecturer
  at Open University (UK)\; in 2007\, he served as the Fulbright Chair at t
 he Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern Cal
 ifornia.\n\nHis novels are published by Tor Books and HarperCollins UK and
  simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses t
 hat encourage their re-use and sharing\, a move that increases his sales b
 y 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 Sc
 ience Fiction Awards. His latest novel\, New York Times Bestseller LITTLE 
 BROTHER\, was published in May 2008\, and his latest short story collectio
 n is OVERCLOCKED: STORIES OF THE FUTURE PRESENT. In 2008\, Tachyon Books p
 ublished a collection of his essays\, called CONTENT: SELECTED ESSAYS ON T
 ECHNOLOGY\, CREATIVITY\, COPYRIGHT AND THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE (with an i
 ntroduction by John Perry Barlow) and IDW published a collection of comic 
 books inspired by his short fiction called CORY DOCTOROW'S FUTURISTIC TALE
 S OF THE HERE AND NOW. His next novel is MAKERS\, due from Tor Books/Harpe
 rCollins UK in October\, 2009.\n\nHe co-founded the open source peer-to-pe
 er software company OpenCola\, sold to OpenText\, Inc in 2003\, and presen
 tly serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture 
 Foundation\, the MetaBrainz Foundation\, Technorati\, Inc\, the Organizati
 on for Transformative Works\, Areae\, the Annenberg Center for the Study o
 f Online Communities\, and Onion Networks\, Inc.\n\nIn 2007\, Entertainmen
 t Weekly called him\, "The William Gibson of his generation." He was also 
 named one of Forbes Magazine's 2007/8 Web Celebrities\, and one of the Wor
 ld Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders for 2007.\n\nThe title of his sem
 inar is taken from a "recent interview":http://craphound.com/?p=2308 in wh
 ich he described his distinctive approach to publishing his work and disse
 minating ideas.
LOCATION:Umney Theatre\, Robinson College
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