Copyright and The Law

Copyright: The exclusive rights and protection given to an author or creator of an original work.

Copy-free: A type of licensing that makes the distribution of software available at no charge for noncommercial uses.

Trademark: A name, symbol, or other device used to identify a product, officially registered and legally restricted to the use of the owner or manufacturer.

Creative Commons: Organization that collects copy-free works, and distributes it ; One of several copyright licenses that allow the distribution of copyrighted works. The licenses differ by several combinations that condition the terms of distribution.

Royalty free: The right to use copyrighted material or property without needing to pay license charges for each use, per volume sold, or some time period of use, or sales. [Usually related to music]

GNU license: A free-software license that promotes the distribution of free works. [Similar to Creative Commons but for software]
 
Public Domain: Works that have no restrictions, and available or belonging to the public.

If something is copyrighted, it is likely to be reliable.
If something is copy free, question the reliability.

Checking Your Sources

Here are steps you should take to check and see if a video is a hoax or not:

• Watch the video twice at least.
• Think about what the video is trying to tell you, are the aims clear?
• Think about who made the video, and why?
• If you see a lot of assertions [saying things without supporting information], start doubting information.
• Research any information that you doubt is true. [About the creator, the information]
• Cross-check important facts from the video. If there are no information available, it's probably a hoax.

Flotilla Protest Homework

Have you had a look on various sources to find out what Marc (Marc3pax)does?

 I went to some difference websites, and "Marc" (real name is Israeli Omer Gersho) is actually an Israeli actor, and

the video was spreaded by the Israeli Government.

How does this video relate to the flotilla movement?

Its aim is to convey people that the flotilla movements are bad and not trustworthy, also saying that Palestinians are dangerous people. Linking Flotilla organizations with Hamas

Is the video objective?

No, definitely not. "Marc" is not even a real character, and his background info. has no real truth to support it.

Is there evidence supporting Marc3pax’s findings?

Not really. Except the one where Hamas insulted homosexuals, but otherwise his informations are mostly

unsupported or extremely biased.

Flotilla Protests

1) Come up with a list of people who could report the story of the Flotilla Protests [In order from most biased]:

1. Israeli government
2. Palestinians government
3. Israeli media
4. Palestinians media
5. Hamas
6. Palestinians citizen
7. Israeli citizen 
8. American government
9. Protestors (Free Gaza Movement's activists, etc.)
10. The United Nations
11. International media (foreign journalists)

Letter to Invisible Children

Project 1 Wordle

On the picture, it shows many words on the list, like Mode, Planning, Spreadsheet, Chart [Gantt], design, testing, main [task], ... I used many other words, but some were lost by the word limit. From this, I think I did okay, but I could have added some more keywords to make it better.