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The Bentley Library maintains a physical DVD collection in order to support the curricular needs of the Bentley community. Some films are not available to acquire in a streaming format and our DVD collection can help to still make that content available to students. DVDs can be borrowed to show films in class and/or can be placed on Course Reserve for viewing.

The Bentley Library has five external DVD/CD drives that can be borrowed and connected to a laptop or monitor with a USB cable (provided) to watch or listen to physical media. The drives can be borrowed from the Library Services desk with a Bentley ID for either 4 hours or 7 days. There are also DVD players in the Bowles Room on the lower level of the library for viewing. So, if you assign a film that we have on DVD - please spread the word and let students know that there is equipment available to help them view the film!

The Bentley Library provides the following platforms which include streaming video resources. See the descriptions below each to learn more about the type of content included in these collections. We can help place links directly to streaming films (when such links are available) in your course Brightspace site using our Course Reserves service so that they are configured correctly for ease of access or add in access directions to the material when direct linking is unavailable.

We subscribe to the majority of content available on the following platforms. However, think of these platforms like Netflix - while we subscribe to the package, we have no control as to when content arrives or leaves. The content on these platforms is relatively stable in availability, but we always recommend checking on specific items you'd like to use at the beginning of the semester to make sure they are still available.

O'Reilly Online Learning offers books, audiobooks, videos, and interactive tutorials on in-demand technology and business topics. Exclusive conference content and case studies from leading organizations are also included.

Titles on the following platforms are licensed by the Bentley Library on a title by title basis for a period of time (usually one year terms). Please reach out to Matt Van Sleet (mvan...@bentley.edu) if you intend to assign a film on this platform or if you would like to check how long a title will be available.

It's important to note that personal streaming services like Netflix*, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, or Hulu were not designed for classroom use. They are meant for private, non-commercial use for entertainment purposes and institutional subscriptions to these services are not available.

While there may be arguments that showing content from these services in the classroom for educational purposes could fall under Fair Use and therefore be an exemption to copyright law, using these services in the classroom may not be permissible under the licensing agreement the user enters when signing up for the service. Make sure to read the Terms of Use agreement to understand what you can/cannot do with the service.

Freely-available videos from streaming platforms such as YouTube, Vudu, and Tubi may remove content at any time without providing notice to users. Furthermore, videos hosted on YouTube and other user-driven streaming platforms may have been uploaded outside of copyright compliance so proceed with caution. Check to see if it's an official YouTube channel connected with the official producer or publisher of the content.

If you record your classes in these meetings, it is best practice to stop recording when showing films or clips. By recording your screen while a video is playing, this is creating a copy of the content which is not permitted under copyright.

Films from Kanopy or Swank Digital Campus cannot be shown via screen share in a Zoom classroom. Technology has been applied to block these films from being displayed on viewer screens. In these instances, we recommend making the links to the films in the databases available in Brightspace so students can watch on their own devices.

Faculty can reach out to their department's liaison librarian directly or use the Suggest a Purchase form on the library website to submit requests. When placing a request, please let us know if you have a preference of format (DVD or Streaming).

Streaming films are purchased twice a year (July and December) on a first-come, first-served basis until the semester's budget is expended. It currently costs between $120 and $200 to license one film for one year from either of the vendors of our mediated collections, Kanopy or Swank Digital Campus.

More information and detail can be found in our Bentley Library Streaming Film Request Policy. If you have any questions about using streaming films in your curriculum, contact Matt Van Sleet (mvan...@bentley.edu).

There could be a couple of different reasons why the film is no longer available. For films that were part of collections such as those in Academic Video Online or Films on Demand, it could be that the database no longer offers the content as they no longer have a license to make that content available.

If the film was previously available on Kanopy or Swank Digital Campus, it could be that the license has expired. Films offered on these platforms usually have a 1-3 year license available. Contact Matt Van Sleet (mvan...@bentley.edu) for assistance.

It looks like the BBC could be streamlining its online services to make its websites easier to navigate, and its content easier to find and watch, in a bid to stave off competition from streaming services such as Netflix and YouTube.

It appears that the BBC will concentrate on the eight areas that bring in over 90% of its online audience: iPlayer, news, music and spoken word, weather, sport, children's content, BBC Bitesize revision and the BBC homepage.

Netflix has been aggressively expanding its original content with big name comedy and drama offerings, while YouTube has become increasingly popular with children. The BBC recently released a report that pointed to Netflix as being a site that was eating into its audience.

Video streaming services like Amazon and Netflix are adding a new dimension to the Sundance Film Festival. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Tatiana Siegel, senior film writer for the Hollywood Reporter, about the competition with traditional movie studios for distribution rights to some of the festival's most anticipated films.

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Internet streaming services Netflix and Amazon are shaking up the film festival business. At Sundance this year, the services bid up the prices of independent films and upended the strategy of traditional Hollywood players. Thanks to that competition, "The Birth Of A Nation," a biopic about the slave rebellion leader Nat Turner, broke a Sundance record with Fox Searchlight picking up the distribution rights to the movie for more than $17 million. Tatiana Siegel is a senior film writer at the Hollywood Reporter, and she says Netflix and Amazon succeeded in part by jumping in early.TATIANA SIEGEL: Basically Netflix bought two big projects coming into the festival. They struck their deals before the festival even started. So they picked up a Paul Rudd movie called "The Fundamentals Of Caring" for nearly $7 million. And they also bought the Ellen Page drama "Tallulah," and that was for 5 million. So basically, to put those numbers in context, two eras ago, the top sale at the whole festival was $3.5 million for a Kristen Wiig movie called "The Skeleton Twins."CORNISH: Whoa, OK. So they're getting in early, and they're going bigger when they do.SIEGEL: Exactly.CORNISH: When you think about why the streaming services were able to kind of upend the market this time around, what are some of the reasons? I mean, are they just the cool kids in town? Do they have more money? What's - how are they seen?SIEGEL: I think it's all of the above. They had more money. They came in with very deep pockets and were willing to spend. I think it's also because they hired away people from some of the traditional distributors that would be their buyers on the site in Sundance looking for the hot movies. And these people are professionals. They know what they're looking for. They've read the scripts. And so last year, Netflix only bought one small documentary, and Amazon bought nothing. This year, they came in fully staffed and ready to go.CORNISH: How are the traditional movie studios reacting to all this financially or otherwise?SIEGEL: I think they're seething because A - it's driving up the prices even when they do land a movie. So you had something like "Birth Of A Nation" which was not bought by Netflix or Amazon. However, Netflix was bidding, and they bid $20 million. So at the end of the day, that jacked up the price for the ultimate sale of this movie, and there's no doubt about that.CORNISH: But is there any sense, like - do we know what it might have gotten before an Amazon or a Netflix came onto the scene?SIEGEL: Before Netflix and Amazon really came onto the scene this year, the high water mark was $10 million. There are a few movies that have sold for the $10 million mark, so, I mean, you could guess or extrapolate and say, well, maybe it would've sold for $10 million if Netflix and Amazon weren't kind of making this earth-shattering type of moves at the festival.CORNISH: You've described the movie studios in reaction to all this as seething (laughter), which is pretty strong. I mean, they got outgunned. Are they really that surprised?SIEGEL: I think they're shocked. I think that no one expected both of these services to come in and really buy like they have - seven movies total already, and the festival's basically at the midpoint.CORNISH: Why would movie studios really care? Is it just that they're embarrassed (laughter) that they've been, you know, outmaneuvered? 'Cause these aren't films they're really giving audiences anyway.SIEGEL: Well, the big movie studios are making the blockbusters, and they probably don't care as much. But all of the big studios also have these small specialty labels, which is part of the Sundance game plan - kind of go to Sundance with your smaller labels like Fox Searchlight and the Sony Pictures Classics and buy something that might get us an Oscar and sort of give them the cachet that they need as well as the big blockbusters.CORNISH: That's Tatiana Siegel of the Hollywood Reporter. Tatiana, thanks so much.SIEGEL: Thank you for having me.

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