The Berkeley Language Center is willing to make Lumière accessible to instructors at other institutions without any cost. However, interested institutions will have access only to the clips from films that they own. The process is as follows:

  1. First, your institution will need to agree to abide by a set of rules:
    • Lumière is to be used to provide access to clips and films as part of instruction in credit-bearing courses only. It should never be used as club activity, for public viewing, or for research (e.g., dissertation writing). Faculty may preview films/clips intended for use in course material.
    • You will permit only faculty teaching courses to have accounts. Faculty here indicates professors, lecturers; graduate students may have access while they are employed by the university to teach a course; staff who are directly assisting faculty in managing materials for a course (e.g., library or tech staff) may also have an account.
    • The URLs for clips must be posted to the campus learning management system, so that students must be authenticated by the LMS. Faculty will not forward emails with URLs to students.
    • The campus administrator will approve applications with email accounts at the institution, i.e., no Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc., accounts.
    • The campus administrator(s) will indicate on the Lumière system which DVDs or Blu-Rays are owned by the institution.
    • The campus administrator will deactivate the accounts of faculty who leave the institution.
    • Your institution will strive to maintain the spirit of fair use of these materials, that is, you will deactivate the accounts of individuals who abuse this service in any way.
    • The campus administrator will make clear to faculty that they are not to share their accounts with others, that the Lumière database is used to find and order clips, but the actual showing of the clips is from the URLs sent when the clip is requested.
  2. A person with signature authority for your institution and in a position of authority vis-à-vis the campus administrator(s) sends an email to the Director of the Berkeley Language Center with a document on university letterhead verifying your understanding and acceptance of these rules for participation. Please include in this letter the names, titles, and emails of the designated campus administrator(s).
  3. Berkeley Language Center staff will conduct a 30-minute training via teleconference for the campus administrators.
  4. Your campus administrators indicate which films in Lumière are owned by your institution.
  5. Faculty are invited to apply for accounts.

It is our experience that it is beneficial for at least one campus administrator to be someone from a media center or library familiar with copyright matters and knowledgeable about DVD collections, for example, a media acquisitions librarian.