Nahum,
Unfortunately, there are no simple answers to your questions.
These are a few common ways for academic library patrons to access
streamed material:
1. The streamed title can be hosted by our library: access only by
faculty, students, and staff members who have a valid campus email
address and unique university password or guests who use a guest
password that is valid only inside the library building.
2. The streamed title can be hosted by a university's streaming server
that is accessible only through a course management system. This
arrangement means that a faculty member and the students in his/her
class(es) who are assigned to view the title are given access to it
through a password to information for a specific class. The downside to
this arrangement is that students and faculty members who may want/need
to use such a title have to rely on word of mouth to know that it is
available. This arrangement can also be very cumbersome for university
personnel to manage.
3. The streamed title can be hosted by the distributor with access as
described in either situation1 or 2 above.
4. The streamed title can hosted by the distributor with individual
students paying for their own license to access the title. This seems to
be a very cumbersome arrangement for the distributor since the company
has to keep up with individual students' payments, access rights and
problems, etc.
Any of these arrangements can feature various permutations on length of use:
1. Term limits: by the week(s), month(s), semester(s), or year(s)
2. In perpetuity;
And number of users:
1. Individual students;
2. Specific class(es);
3. Number of potential users (based on the total enrollment or full-time
equivalency, FTE, enrollment).
From my perspective, the less complicated and less restrictive the
terms of the license, the more likely we are to look favorably at
licensing streamed content. I prefer to purchase a DVD to be housed in
the library and pay some extra for streaming rights either at the time I
purchase the DVD or later when requested by a faculty member. Vendors
sell streaming licenses as stand-alone purchases, in conjunction with a
DVD purchase, or separately at whatever time the customer needs it after
the DVD purchase. I suggest that you look at the websites of other
documentary distributors to assess how they construct the terms of their
streaming licenses. At this time there appears to be no standard method
of selling streaming licenses.
Hope this helps,
Gail
On 3/31/2012 11:14 AM, nahum laufer wrote:
Thanks Sarah Andrews
For your information. I would like to get your and other librarians
opinion on streaming
As streaming Films is a new way to distribute films, and I would like
to have our films also streamed and in the future also start
streaming, as a distributer I would like to understand some points:
1)What do you mean by a password protected server,
2)Who gets the password and can use the server? Only Students &
faculty, or also Alumni, or anybody that asked your library for a
password
3)Did the distributer that sold you public screening rights ask extra
for a license with streaming rights?
Best from
http://docsforeducation.com/index.php
Nahum Laufer
Sales
Docs for Education
Erez Laufer Films
Holland st 10
Afulla 18371
Israel
*From:*videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] *On Behalf Of *Andrews,
Sarah E
*Sent:* Wednesday, March 28, 2012 7:26 PM
*To:* videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
*Subject:* [Videolib] posting PPR info
Our libraries put the public performance rights, streaming rights etc.
in the 540 field. It is searchable in our catalog.
Here is an example from Boyhood Shadows:
"Includes public performance rights, including video streaming rights
on University of Iowa password protected server. IaU "
We also include a paper copy of the license agreement in the box
whenever possible---helps the end users see what we have agreed to.
At least some of our librarians promote this use to student
groups---especially underfunded ones that need programming ideas.
Sarah Andrews
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relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control,
preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and
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working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication
between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and
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