I also have the right to copy and extract parts of the content under Fair Use. If content providers are making this technically impossible - thus depriving us of the possibility of using it for teaching, research, news reporting, or criticism - how are they not violating the social contract?
you do. You can do this without extracting the entire work.
>If content providers are making this technically impossible - thus depriving us of the possibility of using it for teaching, research, news reporting, or criticism - how are they not violating the social contract?
they aren't? They don't need to provide you with a DRM free copy for that. screen record your tv with your phone camera, you got the footage. Fair Use doesn't entitle you to pristine quality footage. But to go line by line:
- education and meusums has ways to request copies legally. It's a pain and money is probably involved but the process exists.
- news reporters don't need to necessary show you footage of a copyright movie to review and critique it. They will simply descibe it in text, as they have for decades before the internet made it possible to show clips. This happens even with video reports as they will simply put up other footage as they describe, or use whatever footage is fair game (usually from trailers).
