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| Malcolm Triglot Retired Moderator Senior Member Korea, South Joined 7315 days ago 500 posts - 515 votes  5 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Korean Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 65 of 237 31 March 2005 at 5:08pm | IP Logged | ||
Is there a copyright notice in the book? If we can figure out which parts (if any) are copyrighted, we should be able to distribute a legal version. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Alex Newbie Germany Joined 7188 days ago 29 posts - 31 votes | Message 66 of 237 01 April 2005 at 8:49am | IP Logged | ||
There's a copyright notice on the tapes "Selected portions under phonorecord copyright (P). All rights reserved.". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zack Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 7209 days ago 122 posts - 127 votes Speaks: German*, English, Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 67 of 237 02 April 2005 at 2:53pm | IP Logged | ||
With access to the (original) FSI textbook (rather than Barron's version) it should be possible to figure out which portions are copyright. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jerikl Newbie Joined 7176 days ago 19 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese | Message 68 of 237 03 April 2005 at 12:41am | IP Logged | ||
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I'd be more than willing to help! I've done this type of work before and computers are well, my professional life and a good portion of my personal life. Unfortunately I don't have any FSI courses but will check with local libraries and I'll see if I can still check out stuff from my university library (might need to pay for alumni membership or something). I'm particulary interested in Brazilian Portuguese currently. If anyone has that course and doesn't want to digitize it, I'll have no problem doing it for you :)
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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7376 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 69 of 237 03 April 2005 at 10:57am | IP Logged | ||
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This site will support only digitized FSI material coming directly from the source. We cannot use commercial releases of those US government language programs as there is no way to figure out which parts have been altered and hence copyrighted.
We have almost finished establishing the format for the digitized product and will come back to you when we can all start. Thanks 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jradetzky Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom geocities.com/jradet Joined 7207 days ago 521 posts - 485 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, GermanB1 | Message 70 of 237 06 April 2005 at 4:27pm | IP Logged | ||
My digitized FSI Swedish course bears an "Audio Forum" label on the cover. The same applies to my FSI German course. However, I can't find any copyright notice on any of them. My FSI French doesn't have the "Audio Forum" label. UPDATE: The FSI French course (levels 1 and 2) is 9 units in 341 pages and 28 h 55 min of audio. Total size is 1.2 GB. PM me if interested. Edited by jradetzky on 07 April 2005 at 1:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Eric Senior Member Australia Joined 7228 days ago 102 posts - 105 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 71 of 237 07 April 2005 at 1:36am | IP Logged | ||
French, did someone say copy-right free possible downloadable FSI french? ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| guillaume Pentaglot Groupie France Joined 7181 days ago 59 posts - 57 votes Speaks: French*, English, German, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Mandarin | Message 72 of 237 17 April 2005 at 2:15am | IP Logged | ||
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Just wanted to know if there were any progress on this. What would be the format used ? How would the files be shared ? I would think that bittorrent is the best way although DC++ could be used (it would be simpler to install but would provide less control as it is difficult to make sure that people don't share copyrighted materials).
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