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| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5812 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 1 of 14 26 January 2012 at 1:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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Aloysius just gave me a great idea on another thread! http://how-to-learn-any-
language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=30982&PN=1&TPN=1 Now if I can make my own R-L material then two people can make L-R material for each other, right? I mean if I have a book I really love in English, and you live in Spain or Mexico or wherever you could just record it for me in Spanish, and I in turn could do the same for you in English for one of your favourites and so on. Can we not maybe match learners along these lines? It seems so simple and obvious that I'm sure it will have been thought of before and there'll no doubt be some picky legal reason why not, but I figure it's worth floating. Edited by Random review on 26 January 2012 at 1:43am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5038 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2 of 14 26 January 2012 at 4:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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It's a nice idea, especially now that most sources of downloading an official audiobook are gone and they are quite expensive.
But it may even be legal as you are both owners of the book, just in different languages (even though the translation is copyrighted too) and you would be doing it for each other only. Perhaps copyright fanatics would find it illegal but even if they did, this wouldn't be something worth suing. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| leisaowns Newbie United States Joined 4864 days ago 12 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese | Message 3 of 14 27 January 2012 at 4:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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I would love to take part in this and think it's a really cool idea. I'm a native English speaker and would be interested in trading off with a Japanese speaker.
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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5255 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 4 of 14 30 January 2012 at 4:08am | IP Logged | |||||
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This is a great idea. Ideally you should put your recordings on the public domain so no money is made from the recording themselves and hopefully you can't be sued for that (if anyone knows better please 'speak').
I could help to set up a website so all recordings could be shared without problems, and even host it for free for a limited time. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5447 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 5 of 14 30 January 2012 at 4:25am | IP Logged | |||||
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Would still be illegal, the copyright is for the intellectual property, i.e. the content of the book and any distribution of this content in any form is illegal without the express permission of the copyright holder(s). Fine for stuff that's already now in the public domain though.
It is doubtful anything would be done about such a thing though but as long as the books in question were not referenced on a public forum, who would know? There is one problem I see though, the many hours that would be needed to make recordings for an average-sized novel with any kind of reasonable quality. Not sure how many people would be willing to spend the time and risk getting a poorly done recording in return. Good luck to anyone who tries though! Edited by jazzboy.bebop on 30 January 2012 at 4:26am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5255 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 6 of 14 30 January 2012 at 10:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, that's the kind of stuff that makes me think we should burn most intellectual property stuff and allow only a few, very well defined, restrictions to what one can do. The usual formulas and laws are so vague that publishers and owners can sue pretty much anyone they feel like and succeed. Hell, just telling somebody "the story" is illegal according to your quasi-quote -- if we're spared it's only because we have too little money to make it worth the effort... 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5812 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 7 of 14 30 January 2012 at 11:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
Amen. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5447 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 8 of 14 31 January 2012 at 3:10am | IP Logged | |||||
Yeah, laws pertaining to copyright and intellectual property are headache inducing. I couldn't help laughing when I first found out that recording things off the TV is technically illegal... 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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