Washington Technorati Toast Public Knowledge and Its IP3 Awards

Public Knowledge's sixth annual "IP3 Awards" - which celebrates information policy, intellectual property, and Internet protocol - drew a crowd of Washington's technorati to the Sewell-Belmont House in Washington on Thursday evening. Among the guests dropping by the event included White House science and technology policy aide Susan Crawford, the Obama administration's designee to be intellectual property czar Victoria Espinel, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, Office of Science and Technology Policy chief of staff Jim Kohlenberger, NTIA Administrator Lawrence Strickling, and Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA). Public Knowledge President Gigi Sohn recommitted her organization to the principles of Net neutrality and to "balance" in the copyright wars. Awardees included: 1) Karen Jackson, the Deputy Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia, 2) Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, 3) Sascha Meinrath, the creator of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation, and 4) Sarah Deutsch, associate general counsel of Verizon Communications.