Send In Your Nominations
Public Knowledge announced yesterday that the deadline for nominations for its IP3 awards is August 1, 2005.
That's soon. So please, send in nominations ASAP to IP3nominees at publicknowledge.org! The awards honor achievement in the areas of Intellectual Property, Information Policy and Internet Protocol. (Hence “IP3″).
Last year's IP3 Award winners were Rep. Rick Boucher, (D-Va.); Danger Mouse, creator of the Grey Album; and Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive.
I'm honored to serve as one of the people deciding who will get these awards. The other judges are Mike Godwin, legal director of Public Knowledge, who is heading the awards committee, Lateef Mtima of the Howard University School of Law, Hal Abelson of MIT, Alan Davidson of Google, Art Brodsky, communications director of Public Knowledge, and Siva Vaidhyanathan of NYU.
Please write in. Feel free to nominate more than one person, and certainly look beyond the shores of the US.