Hi Rhonda, Technically anyone can stream internationally. If the stream is coming from a single server (single location) in the US, the stream is much more subject to Internet congestion and other factors that impact quality than a company who's content is hosted by a CDN (Content Delivery Network) that has the content copied on servers around the world. Typically the shorter the delivery distance the more reliable the signal. So the first question to the vendor is how they are hosting.
The second question would be rights. It is quite possible a vendor has worldwide rights either because it is their own production, they negotiated those rights up front or they seek a one off exemption for you. The study abroad question becomes murky as Jessica points out. My humble opinion is if a student is enrolled on a US campus and they want to watch a program in their apartment off campus, their parent's home in another state or in another country they are studying in, it would be legal streamed or if they carried a DVD with them. If a school has a foreign branch and they want to license rights for that foreign branch, then the vendor would have to have international rights. My 2 cent interpretation. Hope that helps, Bob Robert A. Norris Managing Director Film Ideas, Inc. Phone: (847) 419-0255 Email: b...@filmideas.com Web: www.filmideas.com On Feb 11, 2014, at 8:08 AM, videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu wrote: > > From: "Rosen, Rhonda" <rhonda.ro...@lmu.edu> > Date: February 10, 2014 6:53:31 PM CST > To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu> > Subject: [Videolib] streaming internationally > Reply-To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu > > > Hi all, > So I have a faculty member who is teaching a study abroad class in Germany, > and asked if we could stream videos for him to use there… > Two possible stupid questions, > 1. Do all of you vendors stream internationally – are there possible > bandwith/networking problems anywhere? > 2. Is there any copyright problems if we want to stream films that are > going to be used in Europe? > > Thanks for any help, > rhonda > Rhonda Rosen| Circulation Services Librarian
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