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Francis
Newbie ![]() Joined: 17 May 2006 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
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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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Malcolm
Contributor ![]() Joined: 02 April 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 34 |
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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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Francis
Newbie ![]() Joined: 17 May 2006 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
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Thanks, Malcolm.
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Eric Engelmann
Newbie ![]() Joined: 22 August 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2 |
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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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Heinrich S.
Contributor ![]() Joined: 04 March 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3 |
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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? Edited by Heinrich S. - 23 August 2006 at 2:43pm |
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Eric Engelmann
Newbie ![]() Joined: 22 August 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2 |
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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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gdfellows
Administrator ![]() Site Creator Joined: 04 March 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 237 |
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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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DemiPuppet
Administrator ![]() Joined: 27 May 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 163 |
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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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