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I would think you have done due diligence in contacting those involved. If your reason for duplication and distribution is driven by the desire to preserve the historical medium and not to make any profit, it probably is not a legal case anyone would look twice at anyway. Piracy issues are pursued because the pirate is profiting from the duplication. I agree this is not something that anyone would presume has a wide market and therefore you are not diluting the future profitabilty of the films. It also is not inexpensive to pursue the piracy issue in court and in this case would certainly not be worth it by the original author. So I would say as long as the duplication was a labor of love, then no issues. How many people want copies 10-20? Even at a retail sales price of $50. for a tape/DVD the original author would make a whopping $450 to $900! Trust me you cannot talk to an attorney here without first giving him a retainer of $1-2,000. so the author would start out losing a grand.
Only my opinion...
Thanks,
Randy
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