![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() |
General Discussion | |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
Author | Message |
lucvileyn
Newbie ![]() Joined: 08 December 2006 Location: Belgium Online Status: Offline Posts: 16 |
![]() ![]() ![]() Posted: 06 January 2007 at 8:47am |
Does anyone have a list of websites with original FSI material that you can buy online (eventually by download)? Would be interesting. If I buy something, the site administrator could download it directly from my own (private) ftp-server and post it on the site.
I can also digitize material (on the mac, toast titanium suite 7 is a good tool) for that purpose. I would like to see some stuff from standard Chinese rescanned/digitised. One of my friends has Adobe Acrobat I could use for scanning. i.e. is this copyprotected stuff? http://www.multilingualbooks.com/fsi.html Edited by lucvileyn - 06 January 2007 at 8:50am |
|
![]() |
|
Chung
Contributor ![]() Joined: 23 May 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 143 |
![]() ![]() ![]() |
I don't know if the downloads from www.multilingualbooks.com have copy-protection, but none of their stuff is eligible for posting here anyway because of the copyright imposed by Multilingual Books Inc. The list of original FSI stuff so far consists of one:
http://www.ntis.org (and there's no option for downloading.)
As far as I can tell, the only sites that offer downloading of FSI courses other than this one, are private companies such as Multilingual Books and Language Associates (from tradebit.com). There may be other sites that allow you to download a FSI course for a fee, but those courses are from private sites as well and thus ineligible for posting on this site.
You can get lucky and find original stuff on eBay or garage sales, but that doesn't happen very often.
|
|
![]() |
|
DemiPuppet
Administrator ![]() Joined: 27 May 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 163 |
![]() ![]() ![]() |
Short answer: Maybe
The text is in the public domain in the US. But, since these books are photo-reproductions, there may be a copyright claim that the "photo" is copyrighted. The safest way to handle non-original FSI material would be to OCR the text. Do not photo-copy and publish the photo-copy. There has been some court cases in the US that indicate a "slavish" photocopy of a public domain object is not copyright-able. Other countries, such as the UK, apparently are more willing to support copyrights of photo-copies. For additional reading see: http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2000/sfbutler.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_Ltd._v._Corel_Corporation |
|
![]() |
|
lucvileyn
Newbie ![]() Joined: 08 December 2006 Location: Belgium Online Status: Offline Posts: 16 |
![]() ![]() ![]() |
Well, that's the problem. It is almost impossible to ocr pinyin texts (http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/PINYIN/pinyin.htm). I tried OCR applicatons, some of the best, and not even one supports pinyin. I even tried to create a new language profile, but some characters are simply refused. Someone has a better idea? You're welcome.
Edited by lucvileyn - 06 January 2007 at 3:31pm |
|
![]() |
|
![]() ![]() |
||
Forum Jump |
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |