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FSI Filipino

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Category: Learning Languages
Forum Name: General Discussion
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Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 3:19am


Topic: FSI Filipino
Posted By: FutureSpy
Subject: FSI Filipino
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 4:54pm
From what I've seen, there's a FSI Filipino Head Start. Do you have any plans on making it available?

Does FSI Head Start courses differ in any way from "~ Basic Course" or "Programmatic ~" courses?


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Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 14 March 2007 at 5:19pm
You make it sound as if gdfellows were deliberately withholding it. Tongue
 
As long as someone contributes a genuine government-issued copy of that course, then that's how it will be available.


Posted By: lady therese
Date Posted: 25 April 2007 at 9:59am
Originally posted by FutureSpy

From what I've seen, there's a FSI Filipino Head Start. Do you have any plans on making it available?

Does FSI Head Start courses differ in any way from "~ Basic Course" or "Programmatic ~" courses?


That would be great! I see you have huge potential market in the Philippines. FSI admin should go for it.
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Posted By: MrBrown
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 8:47am
Hello, I have the "Headstart for the Philippines" DLI FSI course. I am willing to contribute it to have it digitized. Just tell me if you're interested and what I need to do. I just posted in "Member contributions" the other Headstart Programs I have. Cheers, Bud Brown

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Posted By: Pantherchamps08
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 2:39pm
Man, I would love to have the HeadStart Filipino.  However, I'm not particularly sure about the copyright rules in for the HeadStart program.  Bud Brown that's probably the only thing that can keep you from sharing your HeadStart collectionCry
 
Does anyone know about the copyright policy of HeadStart?


Posted By: MrBrown
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 3:10pm
Hi, I just sent a PM (personal message) to gdfellows, the adminstrator of this site, asking about all the Heastart courses I have ( See Member Contributions Thread by MrBrown) and am awaiting a response. I'm sure he'll know the best way to share. Cheers Bud

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Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 10:36pm
There are two possible possible conditions under which material can safely be added to the site:

  1. The material is not copyrighted
  2. The copyright holder allows it to be posted

For case number 1, there are 2 possibilities:

  1. The author was an employee of the government and produced the work as part of his or her job.  Do the Headstart books list an author? For example "Major John Doe", "The staff of the DLI", or anyone else clearly working for the US government.

  2. The work is was produced by a non-government person or organization (perhaps under contract) AND it was published without copyright notice.  In general, "published" means that the book was sold, leased, or lent to the general public with no restrictions.  Were these books available for sale to non-DLI class members with no restriction as to their further distribution? Were they available in public libraries? Some DLI books have a preface stating they can not be used outside of the DLI (maybe they contain copyrighted material).

    The US copyright office has a definition "publish":
    http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#pub - http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#pub

    BTW, I verified on the US Copyright site that no one ever applied for copyright on any of these books, and they appear to have been written before the copyright rule changes in 1989.

For case number 2, is there a notice in the book stating that it is free to be distributed to the general public?

One final problem would be if they contain material that was copyrighted in another country (not likely).  US law restored copyright for this type of material in 1996.  This prevented me from posting FSI's "Indonesian Newspaper Reader".


EDIT:
I took a look and saw that the Headstart for the Philippines books are available for lending in the government documents section at my university library.  Perhaps case #2 is valid and it is in the public domain.




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