Adaptation of Mandarin Chinese Materials

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Adaptation of Mandarin Chinese Materials

Postby davidzweig on September 22nd, 2010, 3:48 am

Hello,

I'm a big fan of this site, and I'm extremely grateful for being able to make use of these materials

I would like adapt the Mandarin materials as a book, which I would sell with a modest profit margin. If the project does turn a profit, I will happily contribute funds back to this project (for obtaining new materials or to help with web hosting costs.)

I have two questions:

Is the Chinese course completely in the Public Domain? The notice at the beginning of the books says:

"The DLIFLC may not have full rights to the material it produces. Purchase by the customer does not constitute authorization for reproduction, resale, or showing for profit. Generally, products distributed by the DLIFLC may be used in any not-for-profit setting without prior approval from the DLIFLC"

Are there any sections of the course that are borrowed from another copyrighted source?

Second question: The old site listed the contributors of each course, unfortunately, the new one does not. Who scanned the course? Does someone have a high-resolution copy of the materials? The ones for download are at 100dpi only.

Thank your for your responses.
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Re: Adaptation of Mandarin Chinese Materials

Postby davidzweig on September 23rd, 2010, 3:41 am

I can also feed back any files I improve to the site. Here's a copy of the resource module Ive had cleaned up (compare with the original):

http://rapidshare.com/files/420743531/R ... Module.pdf

Working with higher resolution originals would give better results. With cleaned up files and the right PDF compression, this shouldn't result in larger files for downloading.

Looking through the files, I could improve in a similar way the student text and workbook for modules 3 and 4. Most of the others look near optimal, although a couple could possibly be fine tuned.
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Re: Adaptation of Mandarin Chinese Materials

Postby VagabondPilgrim on October 24th, 2010, 3:27 pm

I am not aware of any section of the FSI course that is borrowed from a copyrighted source. But then that doesn't mean that this is not the case.

I will say that elsewhere in other materials, specifically the DLI Mandarin course, when a section is borrowed or derived from a copyrighted source, it is specifically spelled out in such a way that it's hard to miss.

Therefore, it's probably reasonable to assume that since no specific notification is given in the FSI course, no copyrighted material is included.

Not much help, I'm afraid, but it's the best that I can offer.

Currently, I have no access to the hard copies of the text.

-VP
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