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Francis
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Quote Francis Replybullet Topic: French (Basic)
    Posted: 17 May 2006 at 6:37am
I've just discovered this wonderful site. Many thanks to all involved in its creation. I've been toying with the idea of buying an FSI course for some time, but was unsure it was worth the fairly hefty outlay.

I notice the basic French course is described as consisting of 24 units. Will all 24 units be made available on the site in due course, or are the current 9 units a complete course in their own right?
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Quote Malcolm Replybullet Posted: 17 May 2006 at 10:03pm
This has come up already on this forum. gdfellows has all 24 units (audio and text) and is digitizing them gradually.
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Quote Francis Replybullet Posted: 18 May 2006 at 3:06am
Thanks, Malcolm.
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Quote Eric Engelmann Replybullet Posted: 22 August 2006 at 4:33pm
I've already digited all the audio (as separate 128Kbps MP3s of each exercise) and every text chapter (all 24 units) as PDFs (even linked the audio to the PDFs). Could someone give an authoritative answer to my concerns that someone will sue me if I share this?
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Quote Heinrich S. Replybullet Posted: 23 August 2006 at 2:41pm
Eric> If the material is from the FSI, then it is in the public domain and therefore you are free to share it.

You might like to take a look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

Perhaps someone else has a link to an official/government source stating that the material is in the public domain?


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Quote Eric Engelmann Replybullet Posted: 23 August 2006 at 3:10pm
A followup question. The multilingual books et. al. have added a bit of audio to the original FSI recordings and placed (C) symbols on the discs, but if I cut all that stuff out of the audio CDs, leaving only the audio clips from the original FSI recordings, are they then freely distributable?
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Quote gdfellows Replybullet Posted: 23 August 2006 at 5:47pm
Originally posted by Eric Engelmann

A followup question. The multilingual books et. al. have added a bit of audio to the original FSI recordings and placed (C) symbols on the discs, but if I cut all that stuff out of the audio CDs, leaving only the audio clips from the original FSI recordings, are they then freely distributable?
 
I am taking the conservative approach for the web site and am not using any material from any commercial source, even if edited. 
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Quote DemiPuppet Replybullet Posted: 23 August 2006 at 11:51pm
I think you can feel safe submitting actual FSI materials.
Before I submitted the FSI Turkish Basic course book, I first ran it through Project Gutenberg's copyright clearance procedure. They determined that it was in the public domain.

http://copy.pglaf.org/


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