It's legal to jailbreak your phone, but is it worth doing? Last week, the U.S. Librarian of Congress ruled that those who defeat the digital protections of today's smart-phones for non-infringing purposes can not be threatened by the anti-circumvention portion of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act .
Given yesterday’s Library of Congress exceptions to the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) for Jailbreak and Unlock, it was only a matter of time before both sides, Apple and the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) commented.
Here’s what Apple told Cult of Mac:
The Pulse RSS reader for iPad, featured just yesterday during Steve Jobs’ WWDC 2010 keynote, is reportedly being removed from the iTunes App Store following a copyright complaint from the New York Times/The Boston Globe.
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Sorry to beat a dead horse – (no pun intended) but I want to show you this photo one more time because it gave me an idea for a teachable moment.
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It is possible to shoot portraits in harsh mid-day sunlight – as long as you have a way to make shade that is.
The portrait of Tim, a cowboy modeling for us during our Palouse workshop, was made in harsh mid-day sunlight.
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A tried and true tip on how to gain inspiration in your work is to look around at imagery that inspires you and think about why.
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Out in the Palouse area of Washington, the skies are big. One of my workshop students called the clouds in the area “Simpsons Clouds” because she said they reminded her of the clouds you see on the Simpsons cartoon.
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Here’s a simple composition tip – try to avoid merges. Merges are places where lines intersect in such a manner as to distract and run together.
Note the first photo in the post. It shows the grain silo merging with the hill behind it. This causes confusion in the viewer’s eye. It takes the image out of balance and flattens the scene making it look more two-dimensional.
