Tag: IP3

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• Action Alert: Save Orphan Works!
• Two Bills Lead Net Neutrality Push
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• Blizzard Entertainment: The Company Who Cried Copyright Infringement
• Nominations Now Open For the 2008 IP3 Awards

We’re now accepting nominations for our annual IP3 Awards. Each year, Public Knowledge singles out three people who have advanced the public interest in one or more of the “three IPs”: Intellectual Property, Internet Protocol, and Information Policy.

As technology advances, the roles of users, content creators, and service providers expand and blur. This year, more than ever, the areas have overlapped in debates around patents, copyright, net neutrality on the Internet and on other networks, the use of spectrum, and many others. As new questions arise at the intersection of law and technology, certain individuals come forward to advance to public interest in each of the three types of “IP”.

As always, we need your help in choosing this year’s winners. So please send your nominations to IP3nominees@publicknowledge.org, or post your picks in the comments below.

For immediate release

Public Knowledge President Gigi B. Sohn announced that PK’s 2007 IP3 awards will be presented to Columbia University Law Professor Tim Wu, activist James Love and the members of the band, OK Go — Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka, and Andy Ross. Robert Young, founder of Red Hat Software, will receive the President’s Award.

Awards are given to individuals who over the past year (or over the course of their careers) who have advanced the public interest in one of the three areas of “IP” - Intellectual Property, Information Policy and the Internet Protocol. The awards will be presented Oct. 11 in Washington, D.C.

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.

a Public Knowledge update

Contents:

• WIPO Wipes Out
• Hollywood and Networks Want More Copyright Enforcement
• Spectrum Auction Plans Still Up in the Air
• It’s That Time — Nominations Open for IP3 Awards

a Public Knowledge update

Contents:

• Public Knowledge Asks FCC For Strong Net Neutrality Conditions
• Digital Freedom Campaign Launches
• Jim Burger Gets Surprise Award At Our Fundraiser

The recipients of PK’s 2006 IP3 Awards were honored at a reception this past Thursday, October 19th, at the Sewall-Belmont House here in Washington. The IP3 Awards recognize contributions to Information Policy, Intellectual Property, and Internet Protocol. For background on this year’s honorees check out Art’s post here. I’ll use my space here to describe the ceremony.

Last Friday I had the privilege of being on a Telecommunications Policy Research Conference panel with Yochai Benkler to discuss his new book, “The Wealth of Networks.” If you haven’t yet heard, PK will be honoring Benkler, Jessica Litman and the Krikorian Brothers at its IP3 Awards Ceremony on October 19. The book discusses the sea change in markets, individual freedom and in democratic discourse brought about by digital networks and the willingness of individuals to engage in collaborative projects (or “peer production”) with little or no financial incentive. Benkler discusses the political economics that drive these collaborations, and also the policy threats that seek to derail them. I was proud to see Public Knowledge mentioned prominently in the policy chapter.

Despite my reservations about reading long books on topics related to my work, I found the book extremely accessible, and unlike many other books in the field, optimistic about the future of media. That optimism was not unbounded, however. Benkler does not seek to set up the Internet as utopian, but he does argue that compared to the top down, centralized and closed media that we have been subjected to for centuries, the freedom that the Internet provides for everyone to speak and be heard is indeed revolutionary.

Contents:

• House Panel Sets Aside Copyright Bill
• IP3 Awards Winners Announced

Public Knowledge President Gigi B. Sohn announced that PK’s 2006 IP3 awards will be presented to Yale University Law Professor Yochai Benkler, technology entrepreneurs Blake and Jason Krikorian and to University of Michigan Law Professor Jessica Litman.

Awards are given to individuals who over the past year (or over the course of their careers) who have advanced the public interest in one of the three areas of “IP” - Intellectual Property, Information Policy and the Internet Protocol. The awards will be presented Oct. 19 in Washington, D.C.

Yochai Benkler, a professor of law at Yale Law School, is the winner for his work on Information Policy. His most recent book, “The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom,” which was also published as a Wiki on his web site, examines how decentralized production of information has brought revolutionary changes to the economy. Benkler is known as a prolific writer and commentator on the nature of the information commons.