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Introduction And Scope Of Public Domain Content By David Hooper Public Domain consists of all inspired work and other information (Music, invention, artwork, writing, technology, etc.,) on which no one i.e. Person or Organization claims an ownership. Such information is considered to be part of Public's inheritance and anyone can exploit them for their needs without any restriction. Public Domain can be General information which includes facts, ideas, templates, etc. which could be used by anybody for their needs. Public domain may also be works that may be donated for Pubic Domain. Some of the works by Government also falls under Public Domain. Copyright was designed to get a financial spur to the owner while works in public domain are present for the public to use them without any financial constraint. Copyrighted works fall under public domain once their copyright period is expired. Not all the information available on the internet fall under Public domain contents. But all works published in US before 1923 are in the Public Domain. The classic examples would be Shakespeare and Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Bookstores utilize the public domain by reprinting works that are public domain. The public domain is a space where intellectual property protection does not apply. When copyrights and patents expire, innovations and creative works fall into the public domain. They may then be used by anyone without permission and without the payment of a licensing fee. Publicly owned national parks are also considered by many to be public domain lands. Because of the extensions of the terms of both copyrights and patents, and the privatization of lands and other resources owned by the Federal Government, little is now entering the public domain. Since the public domain is a treasure trove of information and resources to be used by future generations, many advocates are concerned that its stagnation will make it more difficult for future generations to find creative inspiration. Copyleft is a way to make program free software and require those who distribute improved versions of it to make them free also. The Copyleft principle is simple. When one programmer creates program, he has a copyright in that software. Legally, he has the power to control its use, redistribution, and modification. By releasing it under a copyleft license he makes the software available to the public in freedom, while requiring every released program that reuses his code to be free in the same way. Copyleft encourages the user community to contribute to the improvement of the free software, by closing off the temptation to make those improvements proprietary. Meanwhile, companies are free to use, improve and redistribute the software, just like individuals. David Hooper is a marketing consultant specializing in the needs small businesses. Visit http://www.nichepd.com/ for more information on marketing with public domain content. "Article reprinted from SimplySearch4it! Articles Directory" Public Domain Works Marketing Made Easy By Paul Jesse Using public domain works to make money is certainly a good idea; however public domain works marketing might have you a bit confused. To understand how to both make money and market public domain works, you will want to understand what public domain means. Public domain information includes works published before 1923, which includes a whole host of literary works, government documents and the like that are still used today. For instance, Shakespeare, Ben Franklin and other famous figures' writings are available in the public domain free for the taking. Also, any work published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 in which the copyright was not renewed is also available in the public domain. Tons of the information available in the public domain is still used in education and daily life. Because of this, there is still a market for these works. As a result, there is a market for individuals to take the information available in the public domain and sell it for personal gain. This is not illegal and is done by many individuals and companies. In fact, there are a whole host of businesses that are dedicated to this alone. Be careful, however, to make sure the information you are using and selling is available in the public domain because if you infringe on someone's copyright there are some stiff penalties. There are four types of public domain information that include works that copyrights have expired on, works donated to the public domain for public use, anything printed by the government, and general forms, facts, numbers and things of this nature. As you can see, there is an incredible amount of valid information that is available online and free for the taking. However, you might be wondering how to gain access to this information in order to pack it together in a way that you can market and sell. The answer is to search, search and search some more. It might take some effort to find all you are looking for, however it is out there and all you have to do is look until you find it. When you do, it is free to use, market, and sell however you like. Compile a website, book, e-book, or any other product you might be able to sale or supply access to. This is an amazing way to make money and to use information that is free and ready to be published again. A lot of the original work has already been done, so after compiling the information, all you have to worry about is marketing your product! Public domain works marketing and selling will be easier once you have your information compiled and know who your niche and target markets are and how to reach them. With a little effort, you will be able to make money from a product that was free to begin with and only cost a little effort and time to compile into a new and sellable product. Paul Jesse is the owner of Shea Marketing, published author, retired government employee, private pilot, and lifetime student of Internet Marketing. He created sheamarketing.com to help those interested in working from home on the internet. http://www.sheamarketing.com "Article reprinted from SimplySearch4it! Articles Directory" Making The Most Of Public Domain And Private Label Content By Sandra Stammberger There's so much public domain content available all over the internet, with Master Resale Rights available and sites springing up left and right with Private Label articles you can use to create your own products, but what do you need to bear in mind, what is the best way to use all this content and what can you create with it? What to Look Out For: Copyright - you absolutely must check on this - violating someone's copyright is not clever and can be a really expensive mistake not to mention seriously damaging your reputation. Is it really public domain? All those lawyers fees can really mount up when checking into all this but believe me, you really don't want to end up in court over it. Public Domain Content - If you have the money to have a lawyer look at copyright for you then fine, go ahead and get started. Where can you find this type of content? It can be difficult to find content that is free to use but here are a few links to get you started: http://www.gutenberg.org/ http://www.wikimedia.org/ http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html Master Resale Rights - If you can't afford expensive lawyers what else can you do? One rather less pricey way is to buy Master Resale Rights to a product - this gives you the opportunity to name yourself as the author, use the content in another product, rewrite the whole thing - the possibilities are endless. Just be aware with this that you will need to look at the terms and conditions of what you are allowed to do with the product before you buy. On a budget? - not to worry, there are still many ways you can find great content without spending a fortune or worrying about whether you can legally use it. Sites such as http://www.infogoround.com, and http://www.thelostfiles.com provide guaranteed public domain or private label content for a monthly fee. You could also sign up to some of the well known internet marketer's newsletters. Why? Well if you're serious about internet marketing you should be checking out all the latest happenings anyway, but a lot of newsletter owners will have free ebooks, giveaways and articles to download - some of which you will be able to use as your own. So you've got your content ready to go and you've checked your rights and permissions but there is one more thing to think about - sites such as http://www.copyscape.com can check for duplicate content on the internet and of course so can the search engines. This could mean anything from the search engines deciding they won't rate your site as highly because the exact same content is available elsewhere to some smarty pants asking you if you really did write that incredibly good article because they've seen someone else claiming that they wrote it too, so you do need to be aware of this when looking to use content you haven't personally created, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't go ahead and make the most of all that wonderful information. What Can You Do? You could just read the information to learn from it yourself; you could read it to get ideas for businesses, more articles, content, the list is limited only by your imagination. How about: Ebooks Print Books Presentations Membership Sites Face to face courses Mini courses Teleclass content Webcast content Podcast content Blog content Content for your Autoresponder Ezine content Articles for your site to build AdSense income pages Viral Reports Tips Lists When it comes to using all the content you have gathered, you need to look through it all and decide what you want to produce. If you plan to use content from more than one source, such as 2 or 3 articles by different authors to be combined into a report, you will need to go through and change the content into a similar style, check that it is all written in the same tense, make sure the formatting is the same throughout, check for spelling and grammar (for example - spelling for some words is different in the US than the UK) and look through all the articles to see if any of the points made are duplicated. Once you've done this, make a list of points you want to make in your report, read the articles through again and start combining them together to fit what you want to say - cut and paste to copy sections into the right place. Next, look at the way your draft reads now and see if it fits your style of writing, your personality and your business. Reword it to fit with this - there's no point in producing a very formally written, stiff sounding report for a hobby site. At this point you could just tweak it, proof read it, and then go ahead and publish it but to take it a step further and make it really unique, why not look at how you might rewrite it so that all of the content is yours - now you've got the basic idea down and laid out, it shouldn't take you long to reword things, add in some of your own ideas and keywords that fit your site, and maybe a few quotes and suddenly you're looking at something that no-one else has got, that the search engines will love and that no-one can claim you copied. Time to start creating! Sandra Stammberger is the owner of Insider Scripts. At Insider Script's programmers are working around the clock to develop affordable, powerful money making scripts that will help you drive traffic to your business. http://www.insider-scripts.com "Article reprinted from SimplySearch4it! Articles Directory" Make Money On Ebay With Public Domain Products Author: Jason James Any Internet marketer will tell you that the public domain is a goldmine. But if you've only been making money on ebay, you might not know how to cash in this goldmine. The "public domain" is the collection of all documents that are publicly-owned. This usually includes really old documents and books, government documents and information, and documents created specifically for the public domain. There are thousands and thousands of documents currently in the public domain, many of which are easily accessible over the Internet. Before you can cash in on this goldmine, you must first find a product people are actively searching for on ebay. It could be information about building computers; it could be information about curing acne; it could be information about breeding dogs. There are dozens of possibilities. Once you have determined what type of product you want to create and sell on ebay, you should start trying to put together some public domain information for your product. Let's say you selected "dog breeding" for your product. You can start compiling information and pictures by searching for "dog breeding" on wikipedia.org and wikimedia.org. If the pictures and information you pull up fall into the "public domain," then save them in a folder on your computer. Next, search Google for publicly-owned "dog breeding"sites and government sites that have information about dog breeding. Add all of the information you find to the same folder. Organize all of this information logically and put it into a single word-processing document. Now go to www.pdf995.com, download the trial version, and use it to compile your public domain product in PDF format. Your next step is to take this public domain product and make money on ebay selling it. This is pretty simple. If you found a good market niche, you should have no problem making money on ebay. Sell the product as you would normally sell anything on ebay. Remember to pack your auction title and description with highly-trafficked, related keywords. Include a picture and long description for your PDF "ebook." Whenever someone purchases your product, you can simply email them an attached file with your product. If you want to minimize the amount of work you have to do, you can automate the download process by setting up a custom check-out with paypal that redirects your customers to a download page on your website (if you own one). If you don't own a website, you can upload the file to a free geocities.com account and direct your buyers there. You now will have a completely automated sales machine that will constantly make money on ebay. All you have to do is setup the auctions--and your machine will do the rest. About the author: Jason James website 'The Auction Resource Network' reveals his inside secrets and sources that help him pocket over $10,000 a month on eBay. Claim your FREE 'Top 10 eBay Selling Secrets' eBook: www.auctionresourcen etwork.com A Little Secret About Public Domain Treasures by Manjit Kaur I bet this little secret is going to get YOU excited…..just like it did me. I just discovered public domain treasures and it’s a perfect business opportunity for many new internet entrepreneurs. Did you know there’s a little known loophole in US law that allows anyone to distribute, resell or give away expired copyrighted content? Officially, its called public domain, and savvy marketers “borrow” it to publish instant products. Public domain refers to anything that is NOT protected under US copyright law. This includes all works published before 1923 and under certain conditions, works published up to 1978. A “work” can be anything, a book, movies, plays, songs, photographs, instruction manuals, posters, courses, reports, etc. You could take these works, repackage them and sell them for a profit. By tapping into public domain content, all the nitty gritty work has been done for you. There are almost an endless number of ways that you can make money with public domain content. Let me suggest 10 different models you can use to activate and tap the public domain treasures. Model 1: Resell It. You can re-publish public domain content exactly as it is. Whether it’s a book, a movie or even music, you can take this content and quickly turn it into a product. Just copy it as it is and start selling it. Model 2: Website Content You can take the text of the public domain work which relates to a product you are selling or an affiliate program that you are promoting. You then create web pages and include links back to your product page. Model 3: Repackage You can repackage a public domain work into a new product. You can use the ideas and some of the content of public domain works to create new and better products. Eg. Walt Disney characters Snow White, the Little Mermaid were all stories from the public domain. Model 4: Multimedia You can change the books in print into a CD or even a video set. Add to the perceived value of the product by offering ways to consume the information. What was once simply a “book” can now be a complete home study course or training program. Eg. The famous “Think & Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill has been made into an audio CD which is a more convenient format. Model 5: Reprint Rights You could sell your version of the information product along with marketing materials. People love reprint rights and it’s a quick and easy way to make tons of money immediately. You can sell reprint rights only to a derivative product you have created from the original public domain material. Model 6: Upsell You can use public domain works and use then as an “upsell” to a regular version of your best selling product. You simply present your buyer with an additional opportunity to “upgrade” their order or add something to their order. Model 7: Bonuses Simply use the work as a bonus to your main offering. People love bonuses and will buy a product just for the bonus, if its unique and not something they’ve seen all over the net already. Model 8: Viral E-books You simply take parts of the book and turn it into a viral e-book by allowing others to pass along or even sell this e-book as their own. Once you trigger the “virus” its nearly impossible to make it stop because people keep passing it on and than these people keep passing it on etc, etc. Eg. Rebecca fine from Seattle, WA used this exact technique to accidentally launch her six figure business with an interesting book, written in 1910 “The Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace D.Wattles. You can “super-size” this strategy by creating a viral e-book with the material and then including affiliate links that pay you commissions anytime someone buys from your recommended resources. Model 9: Google AdSense You can use the material to create an information-rich website and then place a tiny piece of code from Google to run their AdSense program on your site. You’ll essentially partner-up with Google and get paid a percentage for everyone that simply clicks on the ads Google places on your site. Model 10: Articles/ Mini Courses You could use little contents from public domain works and create a mini-course that people would subscribe from your site. You just load a series of 4 to 10 articles into your auto-responders and it delivers it on a total auto-pilot. You can also use the material into 500-800 word articles to distribute for free publicity and traffic to your sites. Editors of e-zines and owners of web sites are always looking for hot fresh content and in exchange they’ll send you over targeted traffic. Eg. Matt Furey discovered a little unknown book on “Catch Wrestling” and turned it into a complete manual and video e-course of 12 lessons for his market of fitness and wrestling buffs. He had earned over $1million dollars in sales from this one book. Among the topics available in the public domain treasures are: Health & Fitness Fun & Games Sports & Recreation Hobbies & Crafts Education & Self Improvement Food & Cooking Animal & Pets Home Garden & much much more. Public domain works provides a huge opportunity to newbies in the internet world to tap these vast treasures. Simply put, you can use these works to instantly create e-books, manuals, articles, reports or any other type of information products in a snap. GOOD LUCK! You’ll find step-by-step advice on 19 killer internet business and internet marketing models as marketed by TOP internet Entrepreneurs at www.e-HomeBiz.net . It is one of a kind mini-encyclopedia with Master Resell Rights In The Public Domain: Available And Free – For All While not an official, legal symbol, the copyright symbol with a line through it has become the generally accepted way to indicate that a work is in the public domain. It is usually accompanied by one of the following two statements: 1. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. This applies worldwide. 2. I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law. When copyright or other intellectual property restrictions expire, works will enter the public domain and may be used by anyone. More specifically, the public domain comprises the body of knowledge and innovation, especially creative works such as writing, art, music, and inventions, in relation to which no person or other legal entity can of the common cultural and intellectual heritage of humanity, which in general anyone may use or exploit. Imagine The Possibilities! Can you imagine having a nearly unlimited, free source of completed information which you can use to enhance your bright idea? What if you could simply tap into that source and create products which you can resell and turn into a profitable stream of income? When you know how to tap into the public domain, all of this is possible. Works created before the advent of intellectual property laws are part of the public domain. The Bible and Qu'ran, the works of William Shakespeare and Ludwig van Beethoven and the inventions of Archimedes entered the public domain long ago. However, intellectual property rights may exist in translations or new formulations of these works. In addition, works of the United States government are excluded from copyright law and may therefore be considered to be in the public domain. For example, works created by a U.S. government agency become part of the public domain at the moment of creation. Other examples include: NASA photographs, military journalism, federal court opinions (but not necessarily state court opinions), congressional committee reports, census data, and the U.S. government website. Availability of such documents may, however, be limited by secrecy laws. In the United States, all copyrights and patents have a finite term; when this term expires, the work or invention is released into the public domain. For example, patents expire 20 years after they are filed. However, a trademark registration may be renewed and remain in force indefinitely provided the trademark is used, but could otherwise become generic. Copyrights are more complex; generally, they expire in all countries when a variety of specific conditions are satisfied. Before 1978, unpublished works were not covered by the federal copyright act. This does not mean that the works were in the public domain; it means that they were covered under state copyright acts. Websites that claim that "pre-1923 works are safe" are wrong. These works, now under federal copyright, will not expire for several more decades. Patents Publishing the details of an invention before applying for a patent will generally place an invention in the public domain and prevent its subsequent patenting by others. For example, when a chemistry journal publishes a formula, this prevents patenting the formula by anyone. There is an exception to this; however, in U.S. law, the rightful inventor may file a patent claim up to one year after publishing it. Trade Secrets If guarded properly, trade secrets never enter the public domain. For example, a business may keep a product formula like that for Coca-Cola a secret indefinitely. However, if it is disclosed to the public, the former secret enters the public domain, although the former secret may still be patented in the United States. Trademarks A trademark registration is renewable. A trademark owner may maintain a registration indefinitely by paying renewal fees, using the trademark and defending the registration. However, a trademark or brand may become a generic term for a particular type of product or service if people do not use it as a trademark (i.e. as a name or graphic representation exclusively identifying that that product or service originates from a particular business). A genericized trademark -- sometimes known as a generic trade mark, generic descriptor or proprietary eponym -- is a trademark or brand name which has become synonymous with the general or formal term for a particular type of product or service, to the extent that it often replaces this term in colloquial usage. One famous U.S, example is "thermos". An interesting philosophical issue is that a manufacturer who invents an amazing breakthrough product which cannot be succinctly described in plain English (for example, a vacuum-insulated drinking flask) will inevitably find its product described by the trademark ("Thermos"). If the product continues to dominate the market, eventually the trademark will become generic ("thermos"). Other examples are: escalator, trampoline, raisin bran, linoleum, dry ice, shredded wheat, mimeograph, yo-yo, nylon, kerosene, cornflakes, cube steak, lanolin, and high octane, masonite, allen wrench, pabulum, styrofoam, and zipper. One consequence of a trademark becoming generic is that the exclusive rights which may attach to the use or registration of the trademark can no longer be legally enforced. Genericide typically occurs over a period of time where the trademark owner does not maintain or enforce its proprietary rights (e.g. by using the mark or by pursuing infringement action). However, genericide is not an inevitable process. In the late 1980s "Nintendo" was becoming synonymous with home video game consoles but Nintendo was able to reverse this process through marketing campaigns. Xerox was also successful in avoiding its name becoming synonymous with the act of photocopying. Domain Names A domain name, which may be bought and sold, never enters public domain. If nobody owns it, it simply doesn't exist. Top level domains, such as .com, are controlled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Internet Public Domain Resources Many people are using the Internet to contribute to the public domain, or make works in the public domain more accessible to more people. For example, Project Gutenberg is coordinating the efforts of people who transcribe works in the public domain into electronic form in order to create e-book. See the Resources section of this newsletter for key links. SOURCE: Rosemary Hauschild is an innovation and creativity business coach serving individuals developing intellectual property. Impact Coaching International™ offers a year-long program showing creative individuals how to protect, promote, and profit from their innovative ideas in less time and with more profits. Individual coaching services are also available. To learn more about how to protect and promote your intellectual property, you are invited to subscribe to the free e-zine, Creations Of The Mind™, by sending an email to subscribe@impactcoaching.biz with the following phrase in the subject line of your e-mail: 'subscribe creations list' Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rosemary_Hauschild Marketing Info in the Public Domain Want To Create Extra Streams Of Income? Try Marketing Information In The Public Domain Are you having problems financing your invention? Do you need a powerful but inexpensive “give-away” to help convince people to sign-up for your free on-line newsletter or your next fee-based teleforum? Do you need information for your book or audio tape which you can quickly access and drop in as a special chapter or section without spending any money -- or doing any work? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you will find the rich resources you need in the public domain. (See previous article for detailed discussion on the public domain.) And, because this information is absolutely free to use however you see fit, you not only can access it at no cost, you can also repackage it, market it and create a stream of income to help finance your other projects or to simply add to your bottom line. While books in the public domain are the most common resource used for this type of marketing, don’t overlook music, photographs, government documents, film clips, old movies and the like. To get you started, here are 5 key marketing strategies for converting information in the public domain into profitable information products: 1. Spot A Trend, Find “How-To” Information On The Topic & Create An E-book. People are always looking for solutions to problems. Let’s take an example: You begin reading news articles about the popularity of the King Charles Terrier among Baby Boomers. Of course, this is no surprise to you: You adopted one of these adorable dogs a few months ago. Then you spot a few more of these puppies in your neighborhood. Suddenly, you realize that all these new owners must be wondering how to housebreak their new pets. So, you do a bit a research in the public domain, find several resources and compile your new e-book, How To Turn Your King Charles Terrier Into The Perfect Pet: Learn My 5 Secrets To Quick, Effective House Training. Of course, you personalize your book with stories about how you used these principles to house train your own “best friend.” Whatever topic you choose for your public domain information product, always remember to define a target market first. Then, select a topic from the top “how to” e-book subjects: money, health, leisure/travel, saving time, pets, diet, cooking, health, time management and relationships. Next research the popularity of your choice by checking internet key words. Finally, begin your marketing campaign. 2. Turn Your “How To” E-book Into An Audio Product. In today’s hectic environment, people who won’t make time to read will often take time to listen to an audio tape or CD while driving to and from work. Whether you create an audio book by simply reading and recording it “as is” or by modifying it to fit into your own work, the conversion to a tape or CD increases the works perceived and real value. While most e-books sell for between $19 and $39, audio products are usually priced between $69 and $99. 3. Create CDs, Picture Books Or Videos From Public Domain Recordings. Researching and creating these types of products can be more complex and a bit more risky to market, so you may want to try this after you’ve successfully produced a few “how to” products. They key to your success in this area is selecting one or two very well-defined niche markets. For example, a product highlighting films of 20th Century Inventions is most likely to appeal to inventors and educators (two large niche markets). 4. Convert Government Booklets & Information Into “How to” Products. The vast majority of United States government publications and website information is in the public domain. A particularly wealthy source of “how to” information is available through the Small Business Association (SBA) on topics like: how to start a small business; how to start a restaurant; how to get business financing; how to make your hobby pay; tax advantages of a home-based business; and how to own and operate a bed and breakfast. And, remember: these topics only scratch of the surface of government resources available for your use. 5. Give Away A Public Domain Work As An Incentive. Want someone to subscribe to your e-newsletter? Offer them a free e-book on a topic related to the subject of your newsletter. Want someone to purchase your public domain e-book? Offer them a free 5-day e-course providing a few key highlights from the book, then invite them to purchase the book to learn more. Not every way you use material from the public domain must be related to the internet. For example, if you do any amount of public speaking, offering a free public domain product after you speak is an excellent way to draw people to your “back-of-the-room” table where you also have books and audio products for sale. Rosemary Hauschild is an innovation and creativity business coach serving individuals developing intellectual property. Impact Coaching International™ offers a year-long program showing creative individuals how to protect, promote, and profit from their innovative ideas in less time and with more profits. Individual coaching services are also available. To learn more about how to protect and promote your intellectual property, you are invited to subscribe to the free e-zine, Creations Of The Mind™, by sending an email to subscribe@impactcoaching.biz with the following phrase in the subject line of your e-mail: 'subscribe creations list' Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rosemary_Hauschild The Public Domain - Your Key To Success? By Will Edwards Do you know the quickest way to start your own business on the internet? What would you say if I told you it is by packaging and reselling Public Domain information? Can you believe that people are actually becoming rich on the internet by doing just that? Well, it’s amazing but true! In case you are not familiar with the Public Domain, let me tell you that it consists of books, articles, films, graphics, music – in fact, a whole body of creative works of every kind and in every media format you can think of – all of which are out of copyright. And, because these works are out of copyright, you can legally, reproduce them and sell them for 100% pure profit. Once you know where to find Public Domain works and how to check their copyright status, all you need to do is package them into digital format and sell them as a download over the internet. People love digital products because they are instantly available after making payment; and I certainly think they are the best products to sell on-line because they don’t cost you anything once they are created. You can just sell access to your download page over and over again. Here are just a few famous examples of people who have profited from the Public Domain. Walt Disney repackaged the wonderful stories written by the Brothers Grimm to make a whole series of remarkable and memorable movies. Billy Joel used Beethoven’s music for his song This Night and Procol Harem similarly used a Bach composition in Whiter Shade of Pale. Did you know that the movie Little Shop of Horrors is in the Public Domain? Did you know that the popular classic The Science of Getting Rich is in the Public Domain? Did you know that the children’s classic Peter Pan is in the Public Domain - in America, as least! Did you know that you cannot copyright a recipe? That means ALL recipes are in the Public Domain. You just cannot reproduce the author’s additional comments – but you could write your own! You can easily become the on-line distributor of a whole range of classic works, which you supply digitally at no cost to you. Think of companies you already know who are doing this with the great canon of English Literature – pretty much ALL in the Public Domain. Think of TV companies who show classic movies; some of which do only that. Why? Because of the great wealth of classic movies which are royalty-free and now in the Public Domain! Let’s consider books for a moment. There are on-line repositories of Public Domain works readily available. With an ebook compiler, you can quickly and easily create your own derivative works. The secret to selling this type of book is to do exactly what Rebecca Fine did with The Science of Getting Rich – her website (http://www.scienceofgettingrich.net) is entirely based on this Public Domain book. You write your own Foreword and Introduction – adding value and thereby producing your own Derivative Work which can legally bear your own copyright. Rebecca’s site is not the only one to have been based on Public Domain works, Vic Johnson’s site (http://www.asamanthinketh.net) is based on another classic work of Self Improvement – James Allen’s As a Man Thinketh. Both Rebecca and Vic have done very nicely using the above approach. If you have a favourite classic, your website could easily become the on-line authority – that’s what has happened to both Rebecca’s and Vic’s sites. There are very many ways for you to profit from Public Domain works. For more information, see my ebook Public Domain Riches, available as a FREE download below … About the Author: Will Edwards is the founder of White Dove Books ...... http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk ...... Free eBook Download: http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk/ebooks/book.php?f1=nickname&book=pdprofit NOTE TO WEBMASTER - PUT YOUR OWN CLICKBANK NICKNAME IN THE LINK TO EARN COMMISSION! THIS WILL INSERT YOUR NICKNAME INTO THE DOWNLOADED BOOK AUTOMATICALLY Source: www.isnare.com The Easiest Way To Create Articles – Public Domain! By Kirsten Hawkins There are many webmasters that find writing articles for their site to be a very tedious task. Many people who need to write articles also procrastinate as much as they can to delay the amount of writing they need to do. Many people dread writing articles because they find researching for the topic and writing down original materials will be too taxing on them. You need to have your creative juices flowing and simply downloading an article would be plagiarism or tantamount to stealing, not exactly. Have you ever heard about public domain? These are articles written down by many authors that have declared their works to be public domain, which means anybody can use it for whatever purpose they want. While most authors would prefer to copyright their work for their rights, there are also a number who doesn’t mind sharing their work. Public domain articles are not owned by anybody and can be used and abused by anyone. The writers have waived their rights to their works and it is out there for the public to make use of. You can use public domain articles in helping you write your articles. With the public domain articles you can simply edit them to your own style and rewrite them as you please to make it suitable for your needs. All the ideas are there already and its just a matter of finding the write article with the topic or subject you need. This is probably the easiest way to write articles. You don’t need to scour around the library or the internet for hours for information and start an article from scratch. For webmasters who are looking for articles to fill their site and to generate a high ranking for their website in search engine results, they can just modify the article by infusing keywords and keyword phrases related to their site. A webmaster or website operator do not risk any chance of getting sued for copyright infringement because they are public domain, once again meaning that anybody can use it. Writing articles by using public domain wont require as much work as writing one from scratch would. You save a lot of time also. One good factor in using public domain articles for your site or for any project is that you save a lot of money. You dismiss the need to hire experienced and seasoned writers that some website operators use to write their articles. While a single five hundred worded article would only set you down 10 to 15 dollars, this cost will drastically increase when you need hundreds of articles to fill the needs of your site. For those who needs articles to generate newsletters or an e-zine, public domain articles will be very beneficial. You do not need to count on your contributors or pay writers to write down articles for your newsletter or e-zine. You can fill all the pages without any cost or the worry of being sued and sought after by the writers. You can simply copy the articles and place them on your newsletter and e-zine. Public domain articles are a virtual untapped resource that many people fail to realize the true value. The power of articles, keywords and keyword phrases have been deemed invaluable these past few years for many internet based businesses and sites that want to rank high in search engine results. The number of article and content writers have grown significantly due to the rise in the demand for articles. As newer and newer topics and subjects have arisen, there are many demands for new articles to be written. An industry has been formed and this is a worldwide demand. Public domain articles have given a great alternative for those who are cash strapped as well as do not have the time nor the skills to do their articles for themselves. Searching for public domain articles is as easy as 1 – 2 – 3. You can search for them in search engines and do searches in many directories for the topic or subject that you need. Read them and simpy copy paste them to a word processing program and simply edit them to suit your needs. About the Author: Kirsten Hawkins is an online marketing specialist concentrating in direct marketing and viral marketing techniques. Visit http://www.quickadsense.com/ for more information on making money with Google Adsense and other online advertising. Source: www.isnare.com “7 Incredibly Simple Ways To Profit Wildly From Public Domain Material” by: Ewen Chia If you’re in the business of marketing online, a major portion of your income will come from your ability to deliver quality content and products to your market. Now, besides creating these yourself, one of the quickest and cheapest way to acquire all the content and products you need is in the public domain. Whatever your requirements, you can find almost anything in the public domain. Examples include texts, audio, images, stock video, music and software...which you can flexibly use in whichever ways you want! A word of warning though... While a large portion of this material is "fair use", not all the works entered into the public domain database are clear of copyright restrictions. A true public domain work is information open to the public for use, including copying, distributing and modification at no cost. Currently works published 75 years ago are considered to be public domain, while those published from 1924-1963 may be public domain - IF the copyright was not renewed. I would highly recommend reading the public domain FAQ pages at these websites first before you use any material: · http://www.gutenberg.org · http://www.pdimages.com · http://www.pdmusic.org · http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books However - if you desire an easier and quicker method of monetizing the public domain, you will be amazed at what you can do at ==> http://www.miniebook.com/files.htm Assuming you now have all the public domain content you want, the million dollar question is: "How do I truly monetize them to create long-term profit streams?" The answer is in these 7 simple methods: Method #1: Kick Start An Information Empire How many mini sites in a week can you set up to sell info-products that has already been created for you? It's a no-brainer. Public domain provides the perfect opportunity for creating an empire of super profitable mini sites that can each make money on autopilot for you. It's really a numbers game... If one mini site generates a conservative $300 per month, ten of these would mean a nice income of $3,000 every month! What if you just concentrate on getting the formula down to a science and duplicate these mini sales machines every day? Think about it. Apply this concept to auction listings and you can also create a fortune with public domain and eBay. Method #2: Churn Out Complete Niche Websites Split up public domain material and use them as pages of targeted niche content for your website. It's a simple idea but hardly anyone exploit it. All you do is select relevant public domain books and break them down into instant content. With a little SEO skills, planning and targeted keyword-based public domain content, you can spit out new websites that ranks highly in the search engines overnight. This is a better solution and enhancement to automated site creation tools, which being essentially carbon copies of each other, have high risks of being banned. While it takes work, this is one quick way to develop new niche sites on demand. You can then profit from them using Google Adsense, affiliate programs and advertising revenues. This method can also be applied to blogs. Method #3: Get Traffic With Viral Lead Generators A proven way to generate free and highly-targeted traffic is to create lead generating mini ebooks and make them viral. This is a strategy I reveal in detail in “Mini eBook Secrets” at ==> http://www.miniebook.com. Basically public domain material can be fully or partially used as content for your mini ebooks, which you simply create and give away to bring back traffic to your site. Adding a viral marketing effect to your mini ebooks will explode your traffic for life - without any cost to you. Not many people are using public domain in this way and it'll be highly profitable for you to do so. Method #4: Follow-up For Maximum Profits It's a proven fact that following up with your prospects through an autoresponder sequence or ecourse is bound to increase your sales. This is where you can use content from the public domain to great effect. If you can cut and paste, you can create a quality ecourse with public domain works. It's as easy as it gets. Method #5: Achieve Instant Recognition And Credibility This one is good - split the public domain book's content into hundreds of articles with YOUR name and resource box on them. Then simply submit these 'instant' articles and sit back. Your personal branding and name recognition will skyrocket beyond belief! You'll also receive credibility and expert status with your articles, provided they're good. By the way, get this free report to populate your articles on thousands of sites and ezines: ==> http://www.instantmarketingsecrets.com/lifetime.htm Method #6: Create Multiple Products At Lightning Speed Have you thought about repackaging and creating different products out of public domain material? Just changing the format can vastly increase the perceive value and worth of the product. You can take a public domain book and split it up into modules, create audio recordings or market it as a paid subscription newsletter for tons more profits than just selling it as a single ebook. Just changing the format can vastly increase the perceive value and worth of the product. Another idea is to combine a few books with a common topic as a themed package. You can then sell resale rights to it and generate instant backend cash. Or create a high-ticket item by combining manuals, audio and dvds together. The possibilities are huge! Method #7: Use Them As Special Bonuses Public domain material make excellent bonuses for your main product when you're looking for increased value. Other uses of bonuses include: As extra incentives for your affiliate promotions; as incentives for publishing articles; or even for a simple purpose like clicking to a site. You get the idea :-) Apply these 7 methods and your traffic, sales and income will surely surge. If you're ready to profit wildly from public domain material, check this out now ==> http://www.miniebook.com/files.htm Copyright 2005 Ewen Chia Finding Public Domain Content by: Joey Robichaux One of the easiest places to find authoritative public domain content is ... your local used bookstore or library! True -- virtually everything contained in the books you'll find at these locations were protected by copyright. But ... it's also true that many of these copyrights have expired -- making the contents of those volumes completely public domain. US copyright law has gone through several iterations -- but the two things you need to remember are "75 years from copyright date" and "Sonny Bono"! The copyright law originally stated that a copyright would last for 75 years. Thus, if a book were copyrighted in 1900, the copyright would expire in 1975. If a book were published in 1920, the copyright would expire in 1995. If a book were copyrighted in 1922, the copyright would expire in 1997. But ... if a book was copyrighted in 1923 or later, then things take on a whole new slant ... courtesy of then-Congressman Sonny Bono. You see, a particular item was originally copyrighted in 1923. It's copyright was due to expire in 1998 -- sending this item into the public domain. This is normally not a problem -- truthfully, most people don't care about things copyrighted so far back. Expiring the copyright can actually grant these works new life in the public domain. In this case, though, the item due to expire was a mouse -- Micky Mouse! Disney was understandably very concerned about their flagship icon becoming available to anyone in the public domain. Congressman Sonny Bono introduced legislation to extend copyright protection for an additional 20 years. This legislation passed in 1998 -- but only applied to items that were not yet in the public domain. Thus, an item copyrighted in 1992 was public domain after 75 years -- but anything copyrighted in or after 1923 was protected for 95 years. So -- to play it perfectly safe and legal -- if the copyright date on a published work is 1922 or earlier, the item is now in the public domain and may be freely used (but not necessarily re-copyrighted and sold). If the copyright date is 1923 or later, it's best to leave it alone till at least the year 2018! So what good is a book published and copyrighted prior to 1923? Well, if it's a book of sheet music -- or a book of classic poetry, literature, or theater -- or a book of formula, travel, or ... well, you get the idea. Some things become dated -- but some things are just as current today as they were when they were originally published. This doesn't mean you can find a book by Mark Twain in the bookstore and freely copy and distribute it. You'll likely find the copyright on that published work is fairly current. However, if you find an old version of the same book published and copyrighted prior to 1923, then you can safely use it! The best places to spot these treasures -- try your local public library, used bookstores, or estate sales Public Domain - The Philosophy Of Freedom by: Eric Wichman The philosophy behind the public domain is simple and very powerful. To elaborate we must first look at the traditional way in which Art and Intellectual property is governed. It is controlled by one thing, and that is money. People believe that to protect ones rights and to deter theft of their work, it (the work) must be protected by making it illegal to reproduce a work without authorization by the author. Any use other than use the author, “authorizes” will result in legal action against the person or corporation who infringes, by the person or corporation who originally created the work. The law that makes it illegal to copy or reproduce a work is called fittingly “Copyright”. The ideology behind copyright is sound, however, like other ideologies and theories it is inherently flawed. People will find ways to misuse the law for a profit. When someone creates something they are “entitled” to and have “rights” to the benefits of that creation whether it be an invention, or and “original work” of art. Art can be a song, poem, story, or one of many forms of visual art. The rights that come with the creation of a work are, and should be, automatic and natural. No one besides the creator of the work should be allowed to profit from or use the work in any way without “authorization” from the works author. However this idea flies in the face of the creation process, and poses a question. Why create the work in the first place? If no one, besides the original author has any rights to the work, and no one can publish the work without permission, why create it? Culture. Copyright law protects the author of the work and gives the creator the authority to sell the work for a profit without concern of theft of the work. The author can use the work as long as they own “all rights”. What I mean by this is that the author has the option of transferring “all rights” to whomever he or she chooses. The wonderful part about this area of law is that not only can the creator profit from the work itself, the rights to the work is fully transferable. The author can transfer all rights or partial rights or set just about any limitations of usage they deem fit. This also poses another question. How do you transfer rights and why? Transferring rights to a work can get complicated and there are many ways to do it. The 3 most common are the temporary transfer, or what copyright law calls “licensing”. Here are the 3 I am referring to in order of commonality. · Commercial · Editorial · Educational These 3 types of licensing are “almost” all encompassing. They cover just about any use you can think of. There are many different variations of these three licenses, and most likely unlimited variations, it would take too long to go through all of them if in fact there is a limit. The main purpose of this example is simplification. The next obvious question is. “How long does copyright last?” This depends on where you are in the world. Different countries have different laws governing copyright laws. The one common factor here is “rights”. The owner of the work is the one who created it, and these rights continue on even after the authors death. Copyright can last as long as 120 years from the date of creation if created by a corporation, and life plus 70 years if created by an individual. This is according to current US Copyright Law 2004. Now, since we have given you a brief overview of US copyright law, we will explain why we think that both the Public Domain and Copyright Law are extremely important. Copyright Law protects the original authors rights to sell their work. The Public Domain is very important in preserving culture and providing a valuable resource for all kinds of great works. It is a resource, and the language that governs this area is negative in its connotation. Typically when a work is described as being public domain, it is described as having “fallen into” the public domain. This implies a negative state, and the public domain should not be considered as a catch all for unwanted, outdated material, or worse, an archive for the dispensable. It should however, be considered as a vast natural resource, rich in culture, and fine works of art. It’s our history, it tells us where we have been and what we have done. It reminds us who we are, and possibly even where we are going. The public domain should be viewed as a Goldmine, chock full of free cultural riches. It belongs to everyone. No person can own it. Anyone, anywhere, at any time should have access to this great treasure. That is what the Public Domain is all about. It is about FREEDOM… Copyright 2005 Eric Wichman. All rights reserved. |