Duke University Libraries Announces Change to Kanopy Streaming Service After “Unsustainable Increase in Cost of Providing Unlimited Access”

From Duke University Libraries:

Effective September 20, 2019, the Duke University Libraries have transitioned to a title-by-title access model for Kanopy, a popular library of streaming video titles. This change comes as a result of the unsustainable increase in cost of providing unlimited access through an automatic licensing model.

Kanopy’s pricing for libraries under our previous model was based on views per title. Once a title was viewed three times for longer than 30 seconds, we were charged a licensing fee of $135 for one year of access.

Under the new model, users will still be able to watch and stream all of our currently licensed films in Kanopy (of which there are more than 800). New titles may still be requested by members of the Duke community, but they will not be accessible automatically.

We understand and respect how popular streaming media has become. It is an invaluable instructional resource and a gateway for lifelong learning. We regret having to make this change. But we could neither justify nor sustain Kanopy’s skyrocketing price tag.

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See Also: Current Kanopy Business Model is “Unsustainable” For Harvard Library, Move to Mediated Access Announced (August 29, 2019)

See Also: Changes to Kanopy Streaming Service (December 13, 2018)

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