Marcia Wilbur
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Marcia Wilbur is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 writer, author of The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Writers Press, 2000)http://www.amazon.com/dp/059515364X, DMCA, Linux Essentials (2003) http://www.aries.net/store/aoc02310.asp and Norwich (2004) http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780595331031&itm=1.

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 http://www.stc-phoenix.com/RoughDraft03/03aprrd.pdf. In 2003, she drafted a DMCA FAQ for the EFF DMCA blog. This FAQ ultimately lead to her unfinished DMCA book that was due for release in October 2008. Her newest release: A Decade of the DMCA is published and due to hit online and local retailers in November 2009.

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 This site is no longer maintained.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
Norwich, Connecticut
Regular steamship service between New York and Boston helped Norwich to prosper as a shipping center through the early part of the 20th century. During the Civil War, Norwich once again rallied and saw the growth of its textile, armaments, and specialty item manufacturing...

 in computer science and Arizona State University
Arizona State University
Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...

in Technical Communications. http://www.advogato.org/person/aicra/ In May 2008, Marcia received a MS in Technology from Arizona State University. Marcia Wilbur worked at Microchip Technology for 4 years: 1 as a QA consultant in IS and 3 years full time in the SMTD ( Security, Microcontroller, and Technology Development Division ). In 2009, she voluntarily terminated her employment with Microchip and is currently
working as a professor.
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