Thanks so much for the advice Gary and Jessica! The whole thing seemed wrong to me in the first place but I hadn't even considered that the professor didn't own the original film to make the VHS transfer to begin with--I'll check with him on that. I made sure to tell him yesterday that we aren't in the habit of placing copies with no written permission from the copyright holder on reserve so he's already aware that we more than likely won't be putting this on reserve.
I'll also see if I can contact the copyright holder regarding this--maybe they'd want the content to get out there, you never know! Well, actually, I made a general search yesterday and found the film on YouTube--where it had been removed several times for copyright infringement--so I wouldn't tend to doubt they'd rather people obtain the film and permission to transfer it legally. Thanks again for the help! Chris
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