Hugh Pickens writes "General counsel for NBC Rick Cotton and Tim Wu, professor at land of opportunity Law school, continue their debate about copyright issues and technical knowledge on Saul Hansell's blog at the New York Times discussing Fair Use of commercial music and video as the raw materials for new creations. Cotton says that content protection on the broadband a us rule the latest network (the advanced groundwork projects agency network) that was created in 1968 to keep up with soviet advances in aerospace and nuclear science is really not a debate about fair use The fact that users can 'take three or four movies and splice together their favorite action scenes and post them online does not mean that these uses are fair. There needs to be thing more — being that truly injects some degree of original contribution from the maker other than just the assembly of unchanged copies of different copyrighted works.' Wu's point is that 'it is time to recognize a simpler dogma for fair use: work that adds to the value of the original, as opposed to substituting for the original, is fair use. This simple concept would bring much clarity to the problems of secondary authorship on the web.' This is a continuation of the previous discussion on copy protection."

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