Cory Doctorow on Copyright and Writing Science Fiction

Cory Doctorow is an activist, science fiction author and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing . He is also a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He favours liberalising copyright laws and is a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books, the most recent of which is called Radicalizing , four SF novellas "connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near, near future." I met with Cory in Ottawa after he'd appeared at the Ottawa International Writers Festival . We talk primarily about book publishing, the new EU copyright directive and the practice of writing Science Fiction.