What is plagiarism?

Q.) What is copyright law is and what the importance of Fair Use section is for you as a student.

A.) Well the copyright law is that when someone writes something down on paper or anything, it is protected by the copyright law. If you try to copyright anything that someone else has wrote and do not have anything that gives the author credit for his or her work. Here is a link that tells more about plagiarism, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism.

Q.) The works that are and are not protected by copyright.

A.) The works that are protected by the copyright law are the work that is the work of the the famous authors that have worte it. Here are two links to some examples of workprotected by the copyright law, http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html and http://www.ehow.com/video_4467954_learn-protected-under-copyright-law.html. The work that is not protected by the copyright law, could be public domain.

A.) The work(s) that is/are protected by the copyright law are the work that is protected from anyone getting the work and putting thier own words in it, and then putting thier name on it and saying that it is thier work.

Q.) What public domain is and how it can affect your work.

A.) Public Domain is when the public can use your work without your peomission.. And how is, it can affect your work by the public can put thier own words to the work. That could change the whole thing that you have written.

Q.) How much text, video, or music you can use in your work (in your games as well!).

A.) Really as much as you want, but if you use it off of a website, you would need to put somewhere on the page that the text, video, or music is on, credit for the person who put all of that on the internet. If it where me, even if it was public domain, I would still give them credit for thier work.

My New Years Resolution

Well I really did not think of a new years resolution for this class. So, can you help me make one? So, lets make my new years resolution shall we? So, I think that it will be to finish the game before the finshing up date. So, I think that the game will be the greatest game I every made. So, far I have got a lot of stress out of the button to make my loading scene go to my title scene. I found the problem, it was the other three butttons on my title scene. I had made the title scene in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional 3.0 and I had to copy the scenes in the 3.0 and paste them in the 2.0. Then, when I tried to get my other button working in the 2.0 it would not work. Then I had to redo all three button on the title scene because the three buttons did not understand the 2.0 code and the other three buttons on the title scene would not let the other button work! But now I have the two scenes go from one to the other. So, here is the Flash file. Click on the green next button in the bottom right hand corner. So, hope that I can get to my goal and I hope that I can finish our game. I hope we can get everything done with the game finished. I also hope that we can win something at the contest and even if we don't I will still be happy because I would know that I did do something that will make me and hopefully Heather happy.

In Loving Memory Of Jordan M.

Well this has been a really, really bad two days for me. Why you ask because my sisiter's ex-boyfriend's brother died on Tuesday night in his sleep and then yesterday my friend Jordan died at the basketball game with Mt. View!! When I heard that on the radio, I just was shocked because I thought that it was a different Jordan! But when I heard his last name come from my best friend's lips I though I was going to die!! I feel like I lost my brother even though I barely even knew him, but he did everything with his brother and his brother is really, really strong. He came to school today with a shirt that one of our friends' mom made him. It has something to do with, in loving memory of Jordan, or something like that. I think that i would have came to school to, but only with the comfort of something that was my brother's or sister's like their clothes or something. Like I told my best friend this morning on the bus, " I think that it is so weird because you can be having a really good time with someone, so lets say Jordan. So you are talking and laughing with him and you turn around for a split second and boom he is laying in the gym floor and he is dieing and there is nothing that anyone could do! So what do you do? Me personally, I would start freaking out and I would have a panic attack. I wish that I could tell his brother the right words to make him feel better, but I know that the word that I said would probably not change the way that he feel about his brothers death. a least he is okay! know that that isn't the thing that is so terrible here. But, anyway there is at least one that is okay, even though we all want both of them to be here, but we always don't get our way. God's got a life planned out for all of us! So, don't take atvantige of all the time that you spend with the people that you love and or care for. Please, don't I learnt that the hard way. And I can tell that you all have got to have been taking atvantige of what you do in the time that you spend with those pepole you love and or care about. He did everything with his brother. They played sports together and everything. They played all of the sports for the school together, and they had fun. All the sports are basetbll, of course, baseball, and football. And I think that the two together makes a GREAT TEAM!!!