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Public Knowledge Presents Fourth IP3 Awards to Wu, Love and OK Go; Young Receives President’s Award
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1200
Hooray, our boys are being recognized!
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Submitted by Art Brodsky on September 26, 2007 - 4:14pm.
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 Rusty 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.
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OK Go used the Internet, not traditional publicity outlets, to spread the word about their band. The group created a video for the song, “Here It Goes Again,” uploaded it to YouTube and it went viral, becoming a world-wide phenomenon approaching 23 million views on YouTube. They also encouraged fans to make and post online their own videos with the band’s music. OK Go visited Capitol Hill earlier this year to talk with members of Congress about the Net Neutrality policy that made their success possible.
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 Rusty 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.
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OK Go used the Internet, not traditional publicity outlets, to spread the word about their band. The group created a video for the song, “Here It Goes Again,” uploaded it to YouTube and it went viral, becoming a world-wide phenomenon approaching 23 million views on YouTube. They also encouraged fans to make and post online their own videos with the band’s music. OK Go visited Capitol Hill earlier this year to talk with members of Congress about the Net Neutrality policy that made their success possible.
Hooray, our boys are being recognized!
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Anyway, winning the award is great, right?
Congrats to OK Go!!!
Cheers to DJ Rose for sharing the good news!!!!!
Anyway, winning the award is great, right?
Congrats to OK Go!!!
Cheers to DJ Rose for sharing the good news!!!!!
You're welcome (and so is everyone else, btw).
To explain for those who don't live in the US and therefore don't necessarily understand these terms, I'll try to explain a bit:
Intellectual Property is a legal term used to discuss who ought to profit from an idea. Things like patents, trademarks, stories, and songs can all come under this topic. It gets interesting when an idea is generated by an employee of a company who is fired a week later - does the idea belong to him or the company?
Information Policy I believe has to do with government laws concerning the Internet, regarding what can and can't be posted, what obligations webhosts have vs. those of the actual owner or publisher of the site. I could be wrong. Mr. Mr. Jorge, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore (or anyone else smarter than I), care to clarify? Anyway, if I'm not mistaken, this has been an issue lately with government regulations of webcasting. OK Go is getting an award for their work in pushing the envelope of what could be allowed on the internet. By all rights, Capitol could have sued them for copyright infringement (because they have some intellectual property rights on the songs), and since the government currently holds to a policy of Net Neutrality (which is, as I understand it, a "hands off" policy), the dance videos were able to get out to millions of people and enable the band's success.
Internet Protocol I have the hardest time explaining. I actually had to look it up, and it appears to refer to the technicalities of how information is transferred over the net. It's the IP of "TCP/IP" if you've ever seen that abbreviation in your Internet settings, and also, I believe, refers to your individual IP address.
Intellectual Property is said to be a part of Internet Policy, and yeah, Internet Policy has to do with rights, what's regulated and how. Maybe an example would be, whether Google has the right to collect and retain data from your searches, or whether Gmail has the right to trawl through your E-mail in order to serve you with customized ads. What sorts of things you can encrypt, what sorts of things are legal to post, censorship, which programs you may have installed on your computers, etc. etc. etc. are parts of Internet Policy. Over here in Germany, they recently passed laws making certain network tools illegal. It's controversial, because although hackers use these tools to find computers to crack, the tools are also very common and useful system administrator tools used to test the security of their own network. That's a legitimate use (and necessary). But because people aren't informed, the crappy legislation got passed. The way patents are issued can lead to ridiculous scenarios as well. Do any of your applications use a "Progress bar"? Of course they do. That's patented, and it technically doesn't matter if a programmer creates a unique progress bar from scratch code. We're all technically violating tons and tons of patents, the way things are set up. People can and do play dirty with patents.
Internet Protocol is a bunch of horses running through tubes. Hah, no really, it's a "protocol" in that it is the way computers talk over the Internet, just like there are "protocols" for behavior in certain situations.
We are assigned IP addresses. When you order a pizza, the delivery people need an address so that they can deliver your pizza. The Internet is all about computers sending one another data. They need one another's IP addresses to do this. You also need the pizza place's phone number, to be able to call them in the first place. IP addresses are contact information.
IP works by calling up a server by its IP address. When your computer talks to google.com, behind the scenes, it is connecting to the IP address, 72.14.207.99. You could also type http://72.14.207.99 to reach Google, but DNS servers take of server names and IP addresses, so you just have to know the name of the server, "google.com". (You may have noticed that you have to fill in DNS information when you're setting up your Internet connections at home. Without them, you'd always be typing IP addresses -- no fun for humans!)
The talking that goes on between two computers follows a certain protocol, just like you follow a certain "protocol" for behaving in certain situations. When you hit a website, the dialogue goes something like this: "HI, I'm at 135.353.54.108 and I'd like you to send me this web page." "Okay, here come the packets!" "Okay. Ooops, I am missing a fragment of this, resend it!" "Okay". And the fragments arrive at the computer and get reassembled so that you finally see the webpage. Same with anything you download, and all other "traffic". Really stupid analogy: It's kinda like trying to toss your friend the parts to make a sandwich. And if bits drop on the floor, he can ask for a new piece of cheese or whatever, until he gets all he'd need to assemble the sandwich he wanted.
My guess is that this particular organization keeps an eye on regulation in the interest of maintaining certain standard. I could be wrong. I just know that if we'd stray too far away from the way things work, too soon, without making things backwards-compatible, then parts of the Internet could break (become inaccessible to some people). We're slowly trying to upgrade the whole way computers talk to each other, and "IP" has morphed a little from version to version. The latest that was introduced, can give some people problems; I personally have it disabled on my machine for now. Backwards compatibility--because the new version also has certain standards kept from the older version--keeps me able to surf okay.
Members of the band OK Go also could not be present to accept their award but prepared a video that was played for the crowd. The event was held at the historic Sewell-Belmont House on Capitol Hill where guests enjoyed an open bar and seafood hors d' oeuvres.
How much do I wanna see that video?
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2...s_thank_you.php
YAY!
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2...s_thank_you.php
YAY!
Damian looks exactly like Mozart there. I'm in the library, so I have no sound, so I'm just sort of staring, struck at how he looks like Mozart.
Thx, Rachel
edit: tried to find a good Mozart picture. I think the one I'm thinking of was actually an illustration/artist's conception in a book b/c- there only seems to be a few contemporary paintings and none of them are what I remember from the book. But still.
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2...s_thank_you.php
YAY!
Aww I love how Tim in the beginning points trying to tell the dog to look at the camera lol. Thank you so much Rachel for posting this!
This made me laugh so much, I don't even know why!
Tim and the dog are so adorable.
Thanks, Rachel!
And the dog, how cute!
Tim and the dog(Bunny?) are cute.