We sell our DVDs on our website and also through Amazon.
On our website we give the option to buy institutional rights, but
Amazon does not allow this.
Therefore, when we receive a sales notification from Amazon for an
address at a university we always inquire if this is for school use
or home use, and we ask the institution to purchase the educational
rights separately on our website.
That's the best we can do since Amazon is no help in these
situations. I would assume the publisher in question has agreed to
all uses since your DVD came through with no further requests by the
seller.
-Pip Chodorov http://re-voir.com
At 12:10 -0400 15/09/16, Jessica Rosner wrote:
We ordered a DVD via Amazon with the intention of using it for
classroom/educational purposes only. No lending off campus. There were
no license restrictions indicated on the Amazon site for the item.
After it shipped I received an e-mail indicating it was for home use
only, no educational, library use, etc. When it arrived there is a
sticker on the plastic wrap indicating this as well. What are people's
opinions about these having the weight of licensing?
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