I've had an interesting situation arise with a reserve "video" this quarter. Our usual policy is that we do not accept copies (meaning someone burned their own copy of a commercial video) of copyrighted material just as we also do not accept rental videos for placement on reserve.
A professor just gave us his own DVD copy of Karl Hess: Toward Liberty which he had made from a VHS which was a film transfer of the original film. I've checked around and can not find any copies of the film available on VHS or DVD (and since our IT department took over all the AV campus support from me they threw out all the film projectors) so I would say that he is somewhat covered to use the video in class himself but I'm still very iffy about putting the copied DVD on reserve. Anyone have advice on this? My gut tells me not to do it but I honestly am not sure since the title is not available in any other format that we could reasonably be expected to attempt to use...though I think that "protection" is only for classroom use (thought I might be wrong and that's why I'm asking.) Thanks so much! Chris Drake La Sierra University Library Media Services
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