My SIGGRAPH keynote

This week, I gave the keynote address at the ACM SIGGRAPH conference in Vancouver, BC. The event's organizers were kind enough to record and release my video to their YouTube channel. My talk was about the way that copyright can be made to work for creators in the digital age, and why it's important for everyone that we don't get it wrong.

SIGGRAPH 2011 : Cory Doctorow's Keynote Address

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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http://twitter.com/DRc4ble DRcable

will there be a transcript released? or better, an updated version of (c)ontent?
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what are you wearing?
- justanothercynic
  
  Don’t worry, it’s completely original. His glasses, shirt and jacket are a completely ironic and intellectual choice to make.
  
  On another note, cool words bro. I hope that the movement against such restrictive measures gains more momentum over the next few years otherwise it is going to just get worse and worse.
  If closed tech bubbles such as the Apple bubble burst then we have a chance to take back rational freedom on the internet.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Hey! This isn’t one of those sites.
http://twitter.com/chriscoreline chris coreline

‘if you want to run your app on another platform like android or whatever nokia are doing this week’

heh, pro burn :D
David Carroll

Great points as always Cory, but that is a very unfortunate thumbnail. ;)
- chrisspurgeon
  
  Nah, that thumbnail just happened to be when he was telling the audience “I intend to have my third eye installed right HERE.”
justanothercynic

Cory and Tom Watson (MP) should get together and make Britain a better place for Copyright and to be used as an example around the world. Or am I just being too idealistic :P
tw15

Blimey Cory, that jacket – did you mug a deckchair?
Blaze Curry

Nice jacket.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1656608537 Chris Adams

Interesting – what is the connection between being of Eastern European ancestry and getting all verklempt? Also, cool jacket. Where does one get one of those?
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/75OK74CWOW7BJWNP7RNDGYRLWE Taz

The jacket is a side-effect of living in England. As a fellow transplanted Canadian with east European connections, I understand this and have been looking for something similar to add to my wardrobe.

Some day…
Dan Allard

Thanks very much for posting this.
http://twitter.com/ammoniteboy Sterling Sheehy

Doodled this while listening in the audience. In the spirit of the lecture I obviously have to post it under a creative commons license :) Nice talk, thanks for sharing.
http://twitter.com/ammoniteboy Sterling Sheehy

Thanks for sharing this. I was in the audience and doodled a little sketch while you spoke. Thought it fitting in the spirit of a speech on copyright to share this under a creative commons license. :p http://goo.gl/TywQF
Craig Kaplan

I enjoyed the talk. Thanks for coming to SIGGRAPH.
LikesTurtles

Hate all y’all want, the jacket is fabulous.
Timothy Moorehead

Cory: I work. MP3.
mcantsin

… remember what Apple promised 1984?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R706isyDrqI&feature=player_embedded

… and 1997 “Think DIfferent”:
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.Maybe they have to be crazy.How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Andy III

Wow, took a whopping 6 minutes before you brought up Apple. I’m sure all the of the graphics researchers and digital artists were riveted. #TIRED.