Dear CW, Has anyone an Amazon Prime Business Account? Have you used it to allow faculty to view Amazon Video? We have a faculty member who wants us to get an account so that he can view Transparent for a class. If it is applicable, he wants to show it to his students. On Amazon, everything related to an Amazon Prime Business account talks about free shipping and being able to share that with others in your business. It does not mention Amazon Video, Amazon Music, etc. Under Amazon Video, the following is stated:
d. License to Digital Content. Subject to payment of any applicable fees to rent, purchase, or access Digital Content, and your compliance with all terms of this Agreement, Amazon grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, license, during the applicable Viewing Period, to access, view, use and display the Digital Content in accordance with the Usage Rules, for Non-Commercial, Private Use. "Non-Commercial, Private Use" means a presentation of Digital Content for which no fee or consideration of any kind (other than that which you pay to us to view the Digital Content) is charged or received, which takes place in your private home or apartment or, if outside your private home or apartment (e.g., in a hotel room, dorm room, office, or airport waiting lounge) is limited to a private viewing for you and your invitees. Non-Commercial, Private Use specifically excludes any public presentation (e.g., a presentation in a dorm lounge) and any presentation by a place of public accommodation or other commercial establishment (e.g., a bar or restaurant), even if no fee is charged for viewing the Digital Content. To simplify your viewing and management of Digital Content that has a limited Viewing Period (such as Rental Digital Content and Subscription Digital Content), we may automatically remove that Digital Content from your Compatible Device after the end of its Viewing Period, and you consent to such automatic removal. Does the educational exemption apply to showing it in a classroom apply to Amazon Prime? For whatever reason, Transparent has not been released on DVD. Thank you for any help you can provide on this subject. Eileen Karsten Head of Technical Services Donnelley and Lee Library Lake Forest College 555 N. Sheridan Road Lake Forest, IL 60045 847-735-5066 kars...@lakeforest.edu
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.
