To whoever might be able to answer this.... I have an instructor who has assigned her students to watch Examined Life, a film from Zeitgeist Films. I found out because a student came in to the library looking for it in the catalog. We don't own it. In communicating with the instructor, it turns out that she is sending them to megavideo.com to watch it. She tells me that it is readily available on multiple public sites, but I can't find out whether or not the public distribution of this film is legit.
So here are my questions: 1) Is it legitimately publicly distributed? 2) If so, how would we know that? I see the film for sale on the Zeitgeist Films site, so I wonder why it would be for sale if anyone can see it on the open Internet. Thanks for any assistance...jen Jennifer Foster Media Librarian Victoria College/University of Houston-Victoria Library 361.570.4195 http://vcuhvlibrary.uhv.edu VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
