Over the past four years, Public Knowledge has recognized leaders in the fields of Intellectual Property, Information Policy, and Internet Protocol, with the IP3 Award. These are individuals who over the past year (or over the course of their careers) have advanced the public interest regarding one of the three kinds of “IP.” While these increasingly overlapping policy arenas pose important challenges for us, they also create important opportunities for creative individuals in each of the three underlying fields to advance the public interest.
We’d like your help in recognizing leaders in the fields of Intellectual Property, Information Policy, and Internet Protocol. As with the past three awards, we’re asking you for nominations. Please email your nominations to IP3nominees@publicknowledge.org, or you can leave a comment to this post, below.
With your nomination, please send us your reason, however brief, for suggesting the individual or organization and a means of contacting the nominee. We will accept anonymous nominations but ideally we’d like to contact the nominating parties in case we need further information. We need your nominations by Sept. 14, 2007. IP3 Award winners will be invited to attend the October 11, 2007 awards ceremony in Washington, DC.
You can learn more about previous IP3 award winners here.
This year, we are honored to have a distinguished panel of judges to select the award winners. They are:
Markham Erickson: Executive Director and General Counsel to NetCoalition.
Harold Feld: Senior Vice President of the Media Access Project
Laurie Racine: President of dotSub, Senior VP of Strategy and Business Development, Eyespot, Member of Board of Directors of Public Knowledge
Jenny Toomey: Executive Director of the Future of Music Coalition
Fred von Lohmann: Senior Intellectual Property Attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
I hereby nominate Harold
I hereby nominate Harold Feld for your award or awards. I realize that Harold is on the judging committee, but that’s your problem, not mine. Let him recuse himself or whatever. Y’all can figure that out, I’m sure.
Harold’s blog “Tales of the Sausage Factory” is the best thing going in this whole domain. It’s literate, funny, cogent, informed, very smart and always topical, to say nothing of pragmatic. By which I mean, if there’s an issue coming up where a word to a congressperson or FCC commissioner or other Person of Significance would be in order, Harold lets us know. It’s a blog for thinkers and doers, both. Certainly it has caused me to call my congressmen, senators, state representatives on many occasions, and it’s also gotten me to send comments to the FCC.
Harold also blogs here at Public Knowledge and on livejournal, among other places. He is a tireless voice for the people and the public interest. Take, for example, the matter of the 700mhz auction. Has anybody, anywhere, written a better analysis of the 700 Mhz auction than Harold’s series on TotSF? No? Didn’t think so. Over a period of months he explained the technical, political and policy contexts and implications of the auction, and I have no doubt that pressure from TotSF readers helped to open up the whole process. Harold should probably get a Pulitzer for that series (but I would settle for a Public Knowledge award).
So please give Harold your award. He deserves it, and a much wider readership too-also. That boy is a rock star. True, that.
Full disclosure: I’m the domain owner of wetmachine.com, where TotSF appears.
Which, while we’re on the subject, whether Harold gets the award or no, shouldn’t there be a link to his blog on your homepage?
Kind Regards,
jrs
I second Harold Feld's
I second Harold Feld’s nomination. Anyone who writes what amounts to a book just to explain the ins and outs of spectrum auctions to those of us less policy savvy, and does it in a way that’s fun to read (damn, I thought that was an impossibility!) deserves the nomination.