{"id":3224,"date":"2014-09-30T17:10:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T17:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/transitions\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2014-09-30T17:10:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T17:10:37","slug":"streaming-media-makes-obtaining-content-harder-for-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/09\/30\/streaming-media-makes-obtaining-content-harder-for-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Streaming Media Makes Obtaining Content Harder for Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article in <em>The Chronicle<\/em> reveals the all-too-real frustrations of obtaining digital content for academic libraries, like the University of Iowa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/how-streaming-media-threaten-the-mission-of-libraries\/54357\" >How Streaming Media Could Threaten the Mission of Libraries<\/a><strong><\/strong>, by Steve Kolowich<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>In March 2011, the University of Washington\u2019s library tried to get a copy of a new recording of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, playing Berlioz\u2019s <em>Symphonie Fantastique<\/em> that the library could lend to students. But the recording was available only as a digital download, and Amazon and iTunes forbid renting out digital files.<\/p>\n<p>So the librarians contacted the Philharmonic to see if there was some way they could get a copy of the album that they could lend out like a compact disc. The orchestra referred them to a distributor, which referred them to the publisher, the Universal Music Publishing Group. At first the corporation said it couldn\u2019t license the recording to the university, <a href=\"https:\/\/securegrants.neh.gov\/publicquery\/main.aspx?f=1&amp;gn=HD-51139-10\">according to the librarians.<\/a> Later it offered to license 25 percent of the album for two years in exchange for a licensing fee plus a $250 processing fee.<\/p>\n<p>No thanks, the librarians said.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to content licensing, a great source of anxiety for librarians in the digital era.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.The licensing of digital media, however, gives publishers far more power. Instead of selling an album outright, they can sell permission to access its contents for a fixed amount of time. (This is a boon for textbook publishers in particular. Under a digital regime, they may not have to worry about losing sales to students\u2019 buying used copies.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/how-streaming-media-threaten-the-mission-of-libraries\/54357\" >Continue reading&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in The Chronicle reveals the all-too-real frustrations of obtaining digital content for academic libraries, like the University of Iowa. How Streaming Media Could Threaten the Mission of Libraries, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3225,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions\/3225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}