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yeonwhaji
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Quote yeonwhaji Replybullet Calendar Event: Italian and Spanish
    Posted: 07 November 2006 at 11:27am
Hello all,

I am a new member. I am very impressed by the site and already have benefited a lot.

I have noticed that there is no Italian courses yet. I have a CD version of FSI Basic Italian (with paper text) purchased on ForeignServiceInstitute.com and mp3 version of Fast Track Italian (with pdf text) from MultilingualBooks.com.  Also I have a complete (or so I heard) set of the original FSI Spanish that I purchased on eBay. It consists of Barrons CD for the first level and cassette tapes from Audio Forum for the rest of the set. Four thick books came with the set. I have not started Spanish yet, but am willing to loan the material  to the site with the Italian sets. Please let me know if it sounds useful.
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Quote Chung Replybullet Posted: 07 November 2006 at 11:59am
Check this thread out:
 
 
ForeignServiceInstitute.com, MultilingualBooks.com, Barrons and Audio Forum are private resellers of FSI courses. Send a PM to gdfellows, but I'm afraid that because your materials are from private resellers (i.e. with copyright), gdfellows can't post them here. I got FSI Hungarian and FAST Czech from private resellers and would have lent the materials too, but gdfellows is playing it safe and only posting stuff that is directly from the government.
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Quote Yonatan Replybullet Posted: 18 May 2007 at 11:38pm
How can non-copyrighted material be copyrighted?  I mean, aren't the courses themselves public domain?  If I photocopy the book and then sell public government material, is my copy now my own personal work?  Does anyone know if such material has feasible copyrights, if it was created to be distributed to the public?  I am confused how they can copyright something that is public government property.  It is one thing if they themselves developed the course, but all they simply have done is digitzed the materials into ebooks and copied the casettes onto CDs.  That hardly can count as being the author of the material.  Why would not the original author of the course have the say as to if the material can be resold?
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Quote bickern Replybullet Posted: 06 June 2007 at 6:19pm
Yonatan has a valid point there. Would be interesting to know how it stands.
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