Public Knowledge Names IP3 Winners

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Public Knowledge has named its latest winners of the IP3 Awards, which go to career achievement in the areas of intellectual property, information policy, and Internet Protocol, and FCC chairman Tom Wheeler has agreed to help hand them out, according to the group.

The winners were Shari Steele of the Electronic Frontier Foundation for the information policy IP, Chip Pickering of COMPTEL for Internet protocol, and Rebecca Tushnet from Georgetown Law for intellectual property.

The awards will be given out Sept. 24 in Washington. No word on whether Wheeler top aide Gigi Sohn will also be there. She is the former head of Public Knowledge.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.