This is the big problem with streaming especially for feature films. There are a huge number that are not available especially foreign and indie films. You basically have to track them down one by one and to be honest I strongly suspect on the foreign ones the rights holder will say no or simply want an insane amount of money. Streaming is of course a specific right in a contract and you will often find cases where the company that has the film on DVD does not have the streaming rights.
As a practical matter not every film and not even remote majority of films made are going to be available for streaming. I would do your best to track down the rights holders but again they may well say no which is not as mean as it sounds. If you are asking a rights holder in France to stream a movie they have not even sold rights for in the US to stream it for a college they are pretty likely to say no. Indie filmmakers may be more friendly but quote a high price. Sometimes the professor is just going to have to find another title Confused re BABEL. You say multiple venders but can't get streaming? It was a Paramount Vantage release. Paramount titles are now at Criterion Pictures USA but I think they can't do streaming yet. Also the rights may have expired and reverted back to the original owner in Europe but I would check with Criterion. On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Wochna, Lorraine <woc...@ohio.edu> wrote: > Hello again everyone, > > Thank you so much for your advice on streaming films for an online cinema > studies class. The Asst Deans here at Ohio U agree that we should provide > the streaming access to the list of titles that the faculty has chosen. > Some of the titles are available via MEF, some titles I can get through > Swank Digital, but there are 4 titles that are not available for streaming > (using canistreamit.it or gowatchit.com). > > Just curious if we have to deal with these 4 titles on a title by title > basis? Or is there an 'organization' or third party that can negotiate > these remaining titles? While I'm at it, let me send you the 4 titles I am > having difficulty with, perhaps some of you know who we contact to discover > if streaming is an option: > > Alejandro G Inárritu Babel (2006) OWN > ON DVD AVAIL FOR STREAM VIA VARIOUS VENDORS > Anayansi Prado Maid in America (2004) OWN ON DVD > Contact filmmaker: Anayansi Prado <impactofi...@hotmail.com > > Courtney Hunt Frozen River (2008) OWN ON DVD > NOT AVAIL FOR STREAM > Nancy Savoca Dirt (2003) OWN > THE DVD contact filmmaker: Nancy Savoca <n...@cine-si.com> > > Thanks again, for all your wonderful insight. > Best, > lorraine wochna > > > lorraine wochna > Alden Library, Ohio University > Instruction Coordinator > Subjects: African American Studies | English | Film |Theatre > T: 740 597 1238 > http://libguides.library.ohiou.edu/profile/lorraine > > > > > 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. >
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