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DemiPuppet
Administrator ![]() Joined: 27 May 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 163 |
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In case anyone interested, the following texts and audio have been submitted. As before, I have no idea when they'll be posted.
Texts: Modern Written Arabic - Volume 1 - Student TextAudio: Metropolitan French FASTMost texts are scanned at 400 DPI. Both WAV and MP3 files were submitted. The MP3 files were encoded using the Lame encoder with the command line option "--abr 34 -mm -q 0". Copyright Information I include a detailed description of why each of these items are in the public domain with my submission. Here is a summary (Note that several of the texts are already freely available from the US governments "ERIC" website): Texts Per the US Copyright Office Circular #3, all except "Suplemento para Secretarias" are in the public domain because they were published and available to the general public before March 1989 and did not have a copyright notice. In most cases they were also the works of US government employees created in the course of their normal job duties (Title 17.105). "Suplemento para Secretarias" falls into this latter category (though it was available for lending from GPO libraries and thus may fall into the former category). I also verified that none of the works were ever registered. Audio All of the audio was created by US government employees in the course of their normal job duties and thus may not be copyrighted. Note that "Metropolitan French" was created after 2/1972 and before 3/1989 and was not registered with the Copyright Office as a sound recording and is in the public domain for that reason also. For completeness, I also verified that none of the other works (pre-1972) were ever registered, though registration was never required for them. Edit I should clarify the audio rationale. Provision 17.105 does not apply since pre-Feb 1972 works were specifically not affected by the 1976 copyright law (see 17.303). The relevant language is in 17.8 of the earlier copyright law: No copyright shall subsist in the original text of any work which is in the public domain, or in any work which was published in this country or any foreign country prior to July 1, 1909, and has not been already copyrighted in the United States, or in any publication of the United States Government, or any reprint, in whole or in part, thereof: Provided, That copyright may be secured by the Postmaster General on behalf of the United States in the whole or any part of the publications authorized by section 1 of the Act of January 27, 1938In any event, US government bodies have generally quite generous in encouraging the use of audio works for non-profit uses (i.e NASA). Edited by DemiPuppet - 11 June 2008 at 8:38pm |
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onebir
Ambassador ![]() Joined: 16 October 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 116 |
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What can I say. Whether you did all the digitisation yourself or coordinated it - a (n other) amazing contribution!
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liddytime
Newbie ![]() Joined: 04 December 2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 44 |
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DP, You are THE man!!!!!!!!!
Thanks a ton for your efforts!
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TheSaintEW
Newbie ![]() Joined: 06 June 2008 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 2 |
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I see there is audio available for Yoruba Intermediate. Does anyone know if there is audio available for the Yoruba basic course?
Thanks!
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maguy2008
Newbie ![]() Joined: 17 June 2008 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 11 |
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Hey all,
If anyone is interester to learn Arabic online i recommend that he visits Arabicollege.com ,i study Arabic there with native arabic teachers ,i can find a teacher anytime during the day because they are 24/7 available to give online arabic course through live classrooms,you can get help in whatever related to arabic.
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SouthVietnam
Newbie ![]() Joined: 21 July 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3 |
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Thank You, Bless You, I cannot Wait for Vietnamese Basics Vol 2 tapes.
Thank YOU,
Nathan
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