Marcia Wilbur
| Marcia Wilbur | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August Anaheim, CA |
| Pen name | aicra |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Subject | Copyright |
Marcia Wilbur is an American writer, activist, free software and free speech advocate, poet, maker,[1] linux-elitist,[2] author of The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Writers Press, 2000), DMCA, Linux Essentials (2003) , and A Decade of the DMCA (2009).
Early life
Marcia Wilbur was born in Anaheim, California and grew up in a working-class family in Norwich, Connecticut. Her father, Willard L Wilbur Jr.was Founder and President of ACR Manufacturing Incorporated and the subsidiary Apature Industries . The company grew to be 2nd only to Monster cable by the early 1980s. Although she was groomed since childhood to manage the corporation, her desire was to go to college. Against her father's wishes, Marcia moved in 1988 to Arizona so she could attend college at Ricks College, where she learned WordPerfect. She continued studies at Scottsdale Community College after her father's sudden passing. She worked in Computer Services at Kinkos in Nevada in the mid 1990s. Kinkos had recently been a party in a copyright litigation. There she learned more about copyright law.
Writing
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 . In 2003, she volunteered for EFF and IPJustice. At the EFF under the direction of Cory Doctorow, she drafted a DMCA FAQ for the EFF DMCA blog. This FAQ ultimately lead to the book - A Decade of the DMCA . In 2008, Marcia spoke at the Last Hope. The presentation was given a similar title: A Decade Under the DMCA.
Protests
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 This site is no longer maintained.
Education and Work
She was educated at Three Rivers College in Norwich, Connecticut in computer science and Arizona State University in Technical Communications. In Spring semester 2000, Marcia enrolled at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. There she took two courses - Intellectual Property in Cyberspace and Violence Against Women. She attended the conference - "Signal or Noise: The future of music on the net" as part of the curricula. In the same timeframe, she was on freenode IRC and a regular member of the /. channel (#slashot).
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) Department. In 2008, she led training for several Chandler High Schools interested in Robotics competitions, specifically FIRST Robotics. In 2009, she voluntarily terminated her employment with Microchip and worked for 8 years as a professor.
Currently, she is the lead Debian developer for Linux Respin.[3] In 2014, she became the interim Copper Linux User Group president. She is heavily involved in the East Valley Maker Community leading regular Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone, Banana Pi/Pro and ESP8266 Projects including home automation, gaming consoles, surveillance, network, multimedia and other "pi fun".[4]
Volunteer and Public Services
1990-1991 Scottsdale Community College Senator for Math and Science
1998 Arizona State University ASASU Senator for the college of engineering and applied sciences
1998 Volunteer IEEE Computer Science Library
2000- 2004 Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society [5]
2002-2003 Intern Free Software Foundation
2003 Volunteer IP Justice
2003 Volunteer Electronic Frontier Foundation
2012 Apache Foundation
2013 Free Culture Trust [6]
2014 W3C WebID [7]
2014 - 2016 Copper Linux User Group Interim President [8]
Bibliography
- Non-fiction
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act (2000)
- DMCA (2001)
- Linux Essentials (2003)
- A Decade of the DMCA (2009)