Hello Jennifer, Rather than send folks to canistream.it, I look for a few sources of the film myself and send them links. I use canistream.it as a starting point but have noticed the inaccuracies with availability. I think you can submit a report and they will correct it. While I am fairly patient with the site, I figure that sending someone else there might increase the "unhappiness" factor, especially after telling them "no" to streaming. I have not really received any pushback when I tell faculty to send students to those sources. Many students probably have Netflix subscriptions and sites like Amazon, Vimeo, and YouTube have very reasonable pay-per-view options as well.
Cheers, Kelly _________________________________________________________ Kelly Leu Copyright Librarian The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:20:02 +0000 > From: Jennifer DeJonghe <jennifer.dejon...@metrostate.edu> > Subject: [Videolib] canistream.it and the streaming of major motion > pictures > To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu> > Message-ID: > <f824d6e06d2b4d578e1bbac3b59a6...@sp-em-ex01.metrostate.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello, > At my university library we provide streaming films through Kanopy, Films on > Demand, and Alexander Street Press. We also have some films that we > purchased streaming rights for and host/ stream locally. But, we don't > currently support anything else, such as going through a licensing agent like > Swank. Instead, if a faculty member tells us that they want their entire > online > class to watch a major motion picture/ "big studio film" (for example), that > we > can't provide streaming access to, we recommend that their students use > Netflix/ amazon/ itunes or a public library. We send faculty and students to > http://www.canistream.it/ and say that the PPV cost is the student's, like > buying a textbook. > > However, recently I've noticed that canistream.it seems to be increasingly > inaccurate, showing no streaming available where it is. I also frequently get > push back from instructors who are very angry that they cannot stream say > The Wolf of Wall Street in their online class, though they may show it in an > in > person class. (Sympathizing with them over copyright law only goes so far..). > > What do the rest of you tell faculty who ask for films you can't provide > access > to? Is there a better directory than canistreamit for directing people to PPV > for > popular films? Have you come up with any great language to use with faculty? > Do I need to consider working with someone like Swank? (I don't know if I can > manage the licensing from a financial or staffing standpoint...) > > Sorry, this is starting to feel more like a vent than a question, but I'd > appreciate any insight you can provide. > > Jennifer > Jennifer DeJonghe > Librarian and Professor > Metropolitan State University > St. Paul, MN > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment scrubbed and removed. > HTML attachments are only available in MIME digests. > 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.
