Hello,
A patron just asked a very interesting question: is it piracy or a copyright issue if he watches free movies on a website that aggregates the movies from other sources. The following is from the site he's been using to watch movies, Megavideo. " The content is hosted on other sites such as Veoh.com, putlocker.com, Youtube.com and other popular video hosts. This website links to these websites either directly or by an embed code. This site doesn't host any content on it own server and just linking to content that was uploaded to popular Online Video hosting sites like dailymotion.com, sockshare.com, ZShare.net, nowvideo.eu, vureel.com, imdb.com and such sites. megavidmovie.com is not responsible for what other people upload to 3rd party sites. We urge all copyright owners, to recognize that the links contained within this site are located somewhere else on the web." Read More: http://www.megavidmovie.net/p/disclaimer_19.html#ixzz2rLbtI8gn Follow us: @megavidmovie on Twitter<http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=ctmx10ZM8r4y2pacwqm_6r&u=megavidmovie> | megavidmovie on Facebook<http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=ctmx10ZM8r4y2pacwqm_6r&u=megavidmovie> I honestly don't know what to tell him. I'm not sure who could give him a correct, legal answer, but I thought I'd try asking this group. Thanks! Patricia Patricia Ruocco Adult Services Librarian Lisle Library District 777 Front Street | Lisle, IL 60532 p: 630-971-1675 ext. 1503 lislelibrary.org<http://www.lislelibrary.org> facebook<https://www.facebook.com/lislelibrarydistrict> | twitter<https://twitter.com/lislelibrary> | pinterest<http://www.pinterest.com/lislelibrary/> Love Mysteries & Movies? - Check out the Murder Among Friends<http://murderamongfriends.wordpress.com> & Just Between Frames<http://justbetweenframes.wordpress.com> blogs!<http://frontstreetteens.wordpress.com/>
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.
