Marcia Wilbur

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Marcia Wilbur is an American writer, author of The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Writers Press, 2000)[1], DMCA, Linux Essentials (2003) [2] and Norwich (2004) [3].

Marcia was contributing editor for Suite 101 in the Computing Life section from 1999 through 2002 where she wrote articles relating to computing and computer law. Editor for DMOZ copyright section 2001-2002. In 2000 she participated in Openlaw DVD discuss. She assisted Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society through participation and in writing an amicus curae for the 2600 v. MPAA case. As an intern for the Free Software Foundation and a Committee Member of the Digital Speech Project there, she worked with various members in an effort to promote free speech. She has written articles for Binary Freedom, System Toolbox, and STC Phoenix Rough Draft [4]. In 2003, she drafted a DMCA FAQ for the EFF DMCA blog. This FAQ ultimately lead to her unfinished DMCA book due for release in October 2008.

In 2000, she attended the first DMCA protest in Washington D.C. and maintained the first DMCA protest site, dmcasucks.org to inform the public about the law, current cases and impact on society. This site is no longer maintained.

She was educated at Three Rivers College in Norwich, Connecticut in computer science and Arizona State University in Technical Communications. [5] Marcia Wilbur currently works deleting commas at a manufacturing/engineering company somewhere in the valley.