I mean no disrespect, but I'm not sure this is actually a legitimate way of restricting usage. There ARE companies who list tiered pricing - including a home use option - on their websites. IF they are the exclusive distributor for the film, then the purchaser understands the options are restricted and s/he will need to decide whether to proceed with the purchase or not at the institutional price. However, once a company elects to use a secondary source - such as Amazon, B&N or Midwest - to sell the home use version, however, then frankly there IS a home use edition out there that libraries can legitimately purchase. Library purchases, when no prior legal restrictions are arranged, DO legally allow for circulation, and the face-to-face teaching exemption allows for instructors to screen the film to their classes. That's just the way it works. So, if a company really doesn't want libraries to purchase home use, then it seems to me the company must "force" the secondary company to state the usage restriction prior to sale OR the company needs to retain sole rights to distribute home use DVD so that it can specify a refusal to sell home use to an institutional purchaser.
There are those on the list (hi, Anthony!) who always try to purchase an institutional edition, even when home use is available and a legal option, and I say more power to those folks who are committed to that and whose budgets allow for it. For others of us who know that usage will be standard solo checkout or in-class use, and we see a home use copy available for purchase without restriction, we may well elect to go that route. Susan Albrecht Graduate Fellowship Advisor Library Media Acquisitions Manager Wabash College Lilly Library 765-361-6216 (acquisitions) / 765-361-6297 (fellowships) 765-361-6295 fax [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Twitter: @Wab_Fellowships www.facebook.com/wabashcollegelibrary.films<http://www.facebook.com/wabashcollegelibrary.films> ******************************************************************* "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." --Neil Peart ******************************************************************* From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Re:Voir video Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 12:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Videolib] License Restriction? 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?
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.
