Marcia Wilbur

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

Marcia was contributing editor for Suite 101 in the Computing Life section from 1999 through 2002 and wrote articles relating to computing and computer law. In 2000 she participated in Openlaw DVD discuss and assisted at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and participated in writing an amicus curae for the 2600 v. MPAA case. She worked as an intern for the Free Software Foundation, and was a committee member of the Digital Speech Project there. She has written articles for Binary Freedom, System Toolbox and the STC Phoenix Rough Draft and drafted a DMCA FAQ for the EFF DMCA blog in 2003.

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 This site is no longer maintained.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. ^{[citation needed]}