Copyright Policy

All materials created by individuals or corporations are protected by copyright law. That includes materials from the web. Written permission must be given in order to use any part of the materials created. Exceptions to this law occur when materials are used for educational purposes. Under Fair Use, students may use copyrighted materials without consequence of legal penalty.

Since I intend to use this material as part of my professional portfolio, and hopefully make money from it, I have only included materials I have permission to use.

All images on this website are used with permission from:
Center for Columbia River History
<http://www.ccrh.org/comm/river/main.htm>

Illustrated map on main page was altered in Adobe Photoshop by Winnie M. Chu.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is to commit literary theft. The presentation of copyright material as a new and an original idea without clearly citing the originating source is effectively the stealing copyrighted intellectual property.

Reference resources for this site includes:
Center for Columbia River History, 13 March 2004
<http://www.ccrh.org/comm/river/main.htm>

Merriam-Webster Online, 13 March 2004
<http://www.m-w.com>