Marcia Wilbur
Marcia Wilbur | |
|---|---|
| Born | August Anaheim, CA |
| Pen name | aicra |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Subject | Copyright |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Spouse | Rares Marian (m. 2001–2007) |
| Children | 5 |
Download books of Marcia Wilbur or buy them on amazon
Marcia Wilbur is an American writer, activist, free software and free speech advocate, developer, maker,[1] and author of several books about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, including: DMCA,[2] and A Decade of the DMCA.[3]
Writing[edit]
Marcia was a contributing editor for Suite 101 in the Computing Life section from 1999 through 2002, where she wrote articles relating to computing and computer law. She was an editor for the DMOZ copyright section in 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.[4] As an intern for the Free Software Foundation and a Committee Member of the Digital Speech Project, 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. She maintained the FOSS content creator blog on the Intel Developer Zone [5] 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.[3] In 2008, Marcia spoke at the Last Hope. The presentation was given a similar title: A Decade Under the DMCA.
Protests[edit]
2000 Participated in the first DMCA protest in Washington D.C. and maintained the first DMCA protest site, DMCASucks.org (no longer maintained) and maintains dmcasucks.com as an archive.[6]
2001 Free Dmitry
Organized protests in Phoenix, AZ [7]
Participated in Protests and Dmitry Rally in San Francisco, CA [8]
Education and Work[edit]
Education[edit]
AAS Computer Science
BS Multimedia Writing and Technical Communications
MS Technology - Information Technology (emphasis graphics) [9]
Work[edit]
She is the lead Debian developer and backup Ubuntu developer for Linux Respin, now Libre Respin.[10] The March 2018 edition of Linux Journal[11] featured this project.
In 2014, she became the interim Copper Linux User Group president[12]
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".[13]
Volunteer and Public Services[edit]
- 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[4]
- 2002-2003 Intern Free Software Foundation
- 2003 Volunteer IP Justice
- 2003 Volunteer Electronic Frontier Foundation
- 2012 Apache Foundation - OpenOffice [14]
- 2014 W3C WebID[15]
- 2014-2020 Copper Linux User Group Interim President[16]
- 2018 Kids On Computers Mexico Trip and 2019 Robot Donations [17]
- 2018 Solarspell
- 2019 LibreOffice[18]
Bibliography[edit]
- Non-fiction
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act (2000)
- DMCA (2001)
- Linux Essentials (2003)
- A Decade of the DMCA (2009)
- Presentations
- Decade Under the DMCA (2008) - Last Hope [19]
- Copyright, Privacy, Surveillance, and Fundamental Rights (2019) - Yale Law School [20]
- Linux Developer Experience (2020) - LinuxFest NorthWest [21]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Yocto on Beaglebone Black". hackster.io. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
- ↑ Wilbur, Marcia (9 January 2001). DMCA. iUniverse. ISBN 059515364X. Search this book on
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wilbur, Marcia (21 July 2011). "A Decade of the DMCA" – via Amazon.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Amicus Brief". Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ↑ "FOSS Content Creator".
- ↑ "Copyfighter Chronicles". Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ↑ "Big Bunch of Sklyarov links". Retrieved 2020-03-27.
- ↑ "The Untold DMCA Documentary". Retrieved 2020-03-27.
- ↑ "Linkedin Profile". Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ↑ "Libre Respin". Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ↑ "5 Minute FOSS - Linux Journal". linuxjournal.org. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ↑ "MPGLUG". Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ↑ "Copper LUG - Arizona's Copper Linux User Group Project". Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ↑ "OpenOffice". Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ↑ "WebID Community Group participants". w3.org. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ↑ "FOSS Community". Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ↑ "Classroom in a Pi_nch". Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- ↑ "LibreOffice". Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ↑ "Last Hope 2600 conference 2008".
- ↑ "Yale Law School 2019".
- ↑ "LinuxFest NorthWest".
This article "Marcia Wilbur" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Marcia Wilbur. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
