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Spanish Basic Question

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Category: Language Courses
Forum Name: Member Contributions
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Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 2:28am


Topic: Spanish Basic Question
Posted By: DemiPuppet
Subject: Spanish Basic Question
Date Posted: 17 October 2008 at 8:46am
Can anyone point me to a document that proves the Spanish Basic courses were either produced by a government employee or were otherwise placed in the public domain.  The preface of book 1 of the course states that the tapes are not available from the government.  In fact a reasonable person might assume that they were created by the NGO "Center for Applied Linguistics":

The tape recordings which accompany this text are not available from either the Government Printing Office or the Foreign Service Institute, Inquiries regarding tapes should be addressed to:

Center for Applied Linguistics


I can easily get the tapes via inter-library loan. But, I need evidence from a primary source (US government or the Center for Applied Linguistics" that they are in the public domain.

Thanks



Replies:
Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 19 October 2008 at 9:58am
Followup - I checked with Dr. Robert Stockwell, the lead writer of the first three volumes.  He told at the time he left FSI in 1956, there was no government created audio available.

For the time being, I'd recommend that people don't hold their breath waiting for more Spanish Basic audio to appear on the site (at least from me).  In any event, there are several third parties that are sellling the courses (and thus taking on any potential copyright liabilities).



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