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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




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Free Widescreen Wallpapers — How to Make Your Own From Public Domain Sources

Though there are many wallpaper sites on the Internet, few of them provide
quality wallpapers in widescreen format. Instead of spending hours trying to
find a great wallpaper for your monitor, here’s an easy way you can make your
own widescreen wallpaper for free using public domain images.

First you need to navigate over to a United States government website for one of
the armed forces (like the Navy). Once there, find their photo library and
browse till you find an image you like. The images on these sites are public
domain and can be used freely. Once you’ve found your image, download a high-res
version and save that image to your computer.

Using a graphics program like Photoshop, open the picture you downloaded. Once
the image is loaded, select the crop tool. Set the crop settings to a standard
widescreen resolution like 1680 x 1050 (make sure it is a resolution your
monitor supports). Use the mouse and drag the crop outline over the most
visually striking part of the image. When you’re happy with the selection,
double click and the image will be cropped to 1680 x 1050. Great job!

I typically do other important processing steps like level adjustments,
saturation, and sharpening. Many images are just put up on the sites without any
processing and you can make some dramatic enhancements. When you’re done making
your adjustments, select Save As and save your new widescreen wallpaper!

The easiest way to load your new wallpaper as your desktop background is to use
Explore and find the image. Right click on the file and select “Set As Desktop
Background”. Do that and you have a brand new widescreen wallpaper on your
monitor.

With a little effort you can find many outstanding images that will make great
widescreen wallpapers.

John Thomas — Creator of the outstanding free widescreen wallpapers at

http://freewidescreenwallpapers.blogspot.com/

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Are you having a hard time finding quality widescreen
wallpapers for your new widescreen monitor? You can easily
make your own using public domain images and a graphics
program like Photoshop.




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How to Make Thousands of Dollars on eBay Selling Public Domain Products

Make thousands of dollars on eBay selling public domain products on eBay. In
this article we are going to look at a simple strategy that has been used by
many powersellers to make lots of money quickly and easily on eBay.

There’s something called the public domain which contains books, music, movies
and other great products that you can take and sell as your own all over eBay
and the internet. I personally know several marketers who make thousands of
dollars a week selling public domain products on eBay.

The biggest problem with works in the public domain is not a lot of people know
where to find good products. Luckily in my course I give you the actual url’s
where you can find these products right now.

The power of this is enormous. If you can get your hands on lots of quality
information type products the world is yours. There are thousands of buyers
looking for old and rare books, music and movies every week on eBay.

One good public domain book can literally pay your mortgage, all you have to do
is scan the book on your printer and turn it into a pdf, burn it to a cd and
list it on eBay. I know one person for instance who took a public domain image
and got it printed up as a poster, guess what he has made thousands of dollars
from this one image.

One of the best ways to make money from public domain works is to slightly alter
them, if it’s a book change the font to verdana, add some images or add some new
text and you have a brand new unique product to make money from on eBay.

There is an unlimited amount of dollars to be made from the public domain you
just have to know where to look and what to do with the information you gather,
luckily in my course I reveal the exact blueprint you need to make money from
this great resource.

All the Best Gary

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Make thousands of dollars on eBay selling public domain
products on eBay. In this article we are going to look at a
simple strategy that has been used by many powersellers to
make lots of money quickly and easily on eBay. There’s
something called the public domain which contains books,
music, movies and other great products that you can take and
sell as your own all over eBay and the internet.




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Free Clip Art and Free Graphics May Cost Too Much

Creating a good website on a budget is hard, and one of the toughest assignments
is the creation of attractive, appropriate images. Many webmasters rely heavily
clip art and stock graphics to get the job done, even accomplished artists.
There are thousands of sites with such art available but they are a potential
legal and ethical minefield, because you are usually required to compensate the
artists when you use them on a commercial site. Sometimes it’s not just once,
either. One popular stock photography site requires royalty payments each
quarter for the pictures you use. Payments for a single picture can run into the
hundreds of dollars.

What makes this article different is that the free clip art and stock graphics
mentioned here are all not only free to acquire, but they are also royalty-free
and rights-cleared, meaning you can use them on your site without having to pay
anyone. And the catch? Originally, it was going to be that these images are of
somewhat lower quality than their commercial counterparts. Reviewing these sites
proved otherwise. There’s a ton of great stuff here. About the only catch is
that in most cases you are not allowed to copy the entire collection and
republish it as your own. Feel free to use as many of these free clip art images
as you want on web pages you have designed, however.

PDClipArt.org

Browse PDClipart.org during your downtime and you’ll find some real gems. It is
a comprehensive and well-categorized site that verges perilously close to
commercial quality. I have used some of the image credits to track down artists
for additional work. Webmaster Jon Sullivan has contributed thousands of his own
pictures to the public domain in an act of extreme generosity. His category
system is faultless and thorough. PD Photo is clean and very easy to navigate.
Travel, events such as airshows and parades, and such critically important
topics as cheese are covered with commercial grade photographs. A few of them
are copyrighted, apparently because they use copyrighted subject matter, but he
still makes them free to use; see the Copyrighted section for details.

Peirce Free Clipart Collection

Surprisingly high quality free clip art collection and, pleasantly, most images
are in at least three formats: web-ready bitmaps, PDF, and WMF (a Windows
graphic format). Do note the unusual spelling of Peirce. It’s not a typo.

WPClipArt.com

A massive 25,000 free clip art collection of public domain images “specifically
tailored for use in word processors” and optimized for inkjet output. It even
includes notes on using OpenOffice. This free clip art collection is a labor of
love. Paul Sherman, the maintainer, has gone far past the extra mile in
retouching and improving many of the images while still not claiming copyright
on his changes. Emphasis is on older but eminently useful images.

There’s more where this came from. Read Working Webmaster’s free special report
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and save money by using these truly free clip art and free stock photographs.

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Many sites advertising free clip art, free images, and
royalty-free images are not free to use at all. If they
aren’t spam sites or low-quality clip art designed to
advertise a commercial package, they sometimes come with
onerous royalty arrangements requiring quarterly payments to
the rights owners. We did extensive Web research to locate
sources of free clip art and photographs that commercial
sites can use without fear of copyright reprisal.




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A Little Secret About Public Domain Treasures

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!

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Three Amazing Ways To Make Money From The Public Domain

The Public Domain can be used to create works for countless media categories and
category combinations, and sold singly as printed books, magazines, photographs,
audio recordings, software, eBooks, films, audio tapes, video recordings, sheet
music. Products can also be sold in combinations, such as printed book with CD,
eBook with membership site, and more.

Let us look at just a few ways to turn Public Domain creative works into
physical and digital products.

While reading this article please take time to seek ways to be individual,
better still unique, and turn an item literally anyone can claim from the public
domain into your own exclusive products, available only from you!

Let’s go with a few ideas:

* Reprint text and illustrations ‘as is’, in print format, without making any
changes. The simplest way to do this is to obtain a physical version of an
original document, say a report or book, and to scan or photocopy the
information from which to create subsequent copies.

Note that, although this is the fastest and easiest way to recreate and sell
public domain works, it really doesn’t take much effort to make a few simple
changes to text or layout, or illustrations and pagination, for example. These
few changes take very little time but they are highly significant in determining
your rights in the book. This is because with a few changes, enough to make the
item recognisably different from the public domain original, the new work
becomes what’s known as a ‘derivative’ work and its creator is fully protected
under copyright law. This means, if anyone copies your version of the product,
they can be sued for damages.

Note that, if you take a book from the public domain and recreate it as
individual shorter reports, without making changes to the text, your product is
again a derivative and becomes your sole copyright.

* Reprint the text and illustrations ‘as is’ and convert to downloadable
format. This involves laying out the pages as they were in the original format,
by scanning, for example, or by rekeying an exact copy of the document.
Subsequently you turn the document into pdf or other eBook format. Arguably,
this change from print to digital copy is sufficient to make your product a
copyright protected derivative work. But in reality it would be impossible to
know if someone selling an identical digital item to yours has copied your work
or created their own product from scratch just as you did. So at least make a
few changes, design your own front cover, for example, or use a different font,
add a few illustrations, create a contents sheet or index section where none
existed before.

Note that some of the biggest public domain resource sites provide public domain
works as ready to download text. So all you have to do is go to your preferred
location — Gutenberg is most people’s favourite — you’re your title, download
and add the text to a newly opened ‘Word’ document, choose your own font and
size, repaginate the text so that all chapters begin on a new page, and so on.
‘Word’ can be changed into pdf format literally at a keystroke using several
free and low cost software programs on the market today. Find them by searching
google.com for ‘pdf + creator + free’ or similar.

* Recreate the text ‘as is’, in ‘Word’, PDF or similar fashion, and burn your
eBooks on CD. This makes it easier for potential buyers who want your books but
are unfamiliar with downloading or have a slow connection or who simply prefer
physical media. It’s always a good idea to provide as many product formats as
possible and optimise your market potential. You’ll also find that, certainly
on eBay, buyers think they know how to download digital products, but later find
they can’t, so they take out their temper on you and you receive negative
feedback. Sellers of downloadable products can avoid this common scenario by
informing buyers that a CD will follow shortly after they access their download
links.

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The Public Domain can be used to create works for countless
media categories and category combinations, and sold singly
as printed books, magazines, photographs, audio recordings,
software, eBooks, films, audio tapes, video recordings,
sheet music. Products can also be sold in combinations,
such as printed book with CD, eBook with membership site,
and more. Let us look at just a few ways to turn Public
Domain creative works into physical and digital products.




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Online Marketing using List Building & Email Promotions

Internet marketing is a vital ingredient to any website based business for
getting your name around in the public domain. New and ongoing sales are the
“oxygen” that any site needs to survive and prosper. List building and mail
promotions are a part of your essential tool box as far as online marketing
goes. List building enables you to collect the contact details of all visitors
to your site. If they have bought a product or service then you want to secure
repeat business, or if they are yet to make a purchase, you want to try and
tempt them back again.

There are various ways that you can get potential clients to leave you their
contact details; you can invite them to take part in a short survey; you can
invite them to sign up for a newsletter, or you can offer some sort of free
incentive. Any one of these things may generate more interest, and can help to
build up a loyal following to your website. But the most important thing of all
is that once you have their email addresses, you have the basis for future email
marketing campaigns.

Since the visitors to your site are the most likely to purchase your products or
services, it is just a matter of appealing to them by building trust and
loyalty. Sometimes, this can be accomplished through repetitive, yet informative
email promotions that are not invasive.

Research has found that 60% of Internet shoppers abandon their “shopping carts”
before they complete the purchase. The large part of the reason may be that they
did not trust the website or the online business enough to feel comfortable
giving their credit card number. This may mean that website content needs to be
looked at in order to find better ways to instill this trust. It is possible,
with a few changes, you can increase your purchase completion rate.

Bear in mind that the email addresses on the list that you build are your most
likely potential for new sales. They have already visited your site and
registered their interest and the next promotion you push their way may be
sufficient to trigger that order. The one thing that you must be careful of
however, is to ensure that any promotional data you send to them is both
interesting and informative, else they may tire very quickly and delete
themselves from your mailing list. Once lost a potential client in unlikely to
return.

It is always useful, if not essential, to seek feedback from visitors. These are
both your clients and your potential clients, and their shopping experiences are
invaluable to you. You can for example include a short survey form on your
website for visitors or shoppers to complete, and give them plenty of options to
be able to contact you such as links, low toll or free calls, and an address.
All of this will help to instill that vital confidence ingredient and will give
your site a more professional and user friendly feel.

The easiest client to woo, is one that has already purchased from your website.
There are no trust issues here. They were sufficiently interested in the
product/service, to complete a purchase, therefore, new product/service
promotions and newsletters can be expected to reap rewards, so this should be
your first propriety target group. To get the best benefit out of email
campaigns, the data in your potential client list needs to be carefully analyzed
and your campaigns planned accordingly.

Good ways of stimulating your visitor’s interest include: special offers, video
demonstrations or presentations, and free product samples.

The thing to keep in mind is that your website is the storefront for your online
business and you have to get the customer to come into the store before you have
a chance to sell them anything. Just like window shoppers, they will often come
back at a later time to make an actual purchase. The key is to use list building
and email promotions to win them over as a repeat customer and keep your name in
front of them from time to time.

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customer database from visitors to your website is
important, since these visitors were obviously interested
enough to see what your website was about in the first
place.




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The Vintage Scrapbook – Eight Creative Ideas For Using Vintage Images in Your

Scrapbooks

Vintage images can add a nostalgic dimension to your scrapbooking. Whether they
are illustrations from an artist’s hand, early photographs, or antique paper
items like advertisements, newspapers or other ephemera, they lend instant
artwork to your scrapbooking project. These pictures from the past also capture
the essence of an occasion or an emotion, verifying that the important things in
life don’t change over time.

Many kinds of vintage images are available digitally through simple online
downloads — just try a Google search for “vintage images.” Though most will be
in the public domain, be aware of any usage restrictions you find.

Here are eight ideas to spark your imagination!

  1. Use the full image as a centerpiece. Choose an image that reflects the theme of
    your page; a photo of an antique car for your page about your son’s new car; a
    jolly Victorian St. Nicholas for a Christmas page; a vintage Eiffel Tower photo
    for your Paris vacation page. Place the image centrally and lay out your photos
    around it.
  2. Enlarge the image as your background. Many images are perfect for backgrounds,
    such as handwriting on aged paper or a pastoral scene. If the digital image is
    high resolution (150-300 dpi), you can probably enlarge it to the size of your
    scrapbook page. Use the background colors to determine your photo matting
    palette. Layout your photos, text and embellishments so the background image
    peeks through.
  3. Cut out “scraps” as embellishments. A major pastime for Victorian women was
    cutting out small illustrations (called “scraps”) and pasting them in books -
    hence, scrapbooks. Many vintage images include comical figures, holiday symbols,
    good-luck charms, and more. Simply resize and print them from your computer and
    cut them out with manicure scissors. Glue them onto your page where you need a
    nostalgic embellishment!
  4. Create frames or borders from the images. Many vintage postcards and greeting
    cards were designed with fanciful decorative borders. Resize and print them on
    your computer, cut out the center, and you have an ornate vintage frame for your
    photos or text.

  5. Use vintage written sentiments as inspiration for your journaling. Long before
    Hallmark, Victorian-era postcards were created for all occasions (even Leap
    Year) with snippets of poetry and flowery sentiments. Incorporate these texts
    and artwork into your scrapbook page for a touching message from the past.
  6. Borrow the colors from an image to set the palette for your scrapbook page.
    Choose an image that attracts you with colors, bright or subdued, or even a
    striking black and white or sepia-tone photo. Use those colors and shades in
    your background, matting and texts to create a harmonized, coordinated look.
  7. Alter vintage images with paint, ink, rubber stamping or other treatments.
    “Altered art” is both fun and trendy. Take a basic image and add your own
    touches with paint, foil, cutting, folding, stamping, embossing, burning –
    pretty much anything. What you add and how you do it can make an image comical,
    provocative or nostalgic. When in doubt — it seems — put butterfly wings on a
    baby photo.
  8. Let your personal photos “interact” with vintage images. Find a vintage photo or
    illustration that fits your theme — perhaps a picture of a seated Santa. Now,
    size and cut out a silhouette of your child, and place her on Santa’s lap. Or,
    start with a vintage beach scene, with everyone posing in long-legged bathing
    dresses. Add your daughter to the lineup in her bikini. You are limited only by
    your dexterity with scissors or your prowess with your computer’s graphics
    software.

These eight ideas are just a start. Virtually any scrapbooking technique can be
applied to vintage images. Happy scrapping!

Scott Henderson founded Vintage Image Craft (http://www.vintageimagecraft.com)
for crafters and scrapbookers who love creating with vintage images. Visit for
free ideas, techniques, instructions and vintage image downloads.

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Vintage images can add a nostalgic dimension to your
scrapbooking. Whether they are illustrations from an
artist’s hand, early photographs, or antique paper items
like advertisements, newspapers or other ephemera, they lend
instant artwork to your scrapbooking project. Here are
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Seven Profitable Ways to Use the Public Domain

When it comes to the types of public domain projects you can create, the limit
is really your imagination. Lets look at seven different ways you can use public
domain materials to build an income stream.

  1. You can republish a public domain books as is. You can either physically print
    it or offer it in electronic format. If you offer the book in electronic format,
    packaging it as a PDF file – like this course – is the best way to go.

    If you choose to offer a printed book, you have a few options. You can print it
    yourself on demand and use inexpensive binding equipment (spiral binding) that
    you can buy from any office supply store to make a professional looking book.

    You can go to a local printer and do very short runs of the book. They will even
    do the binding for you. It will typically be spiral bound at such low volume
    runs as it is quite cost effective when producing a few dozen at a time.

    You can approach a specialty printing company and get a larger quantity printed
    in any type of binding you want. This is the most cost effective way but you
    have to be ready to purchase and inventory a large number of books to make it
    worthwhile. The last time we did this, the efficiency point was 1000 books but
    this was back in 1995 and there are more options available nowadays.

  2. Audiobooks
    - Did you know that there is a website that has public domain audiobooks that
    you can download and use as you wish? In fact, as of June 2008, they reached
    1,500 books in their catalog of audiobook downloads. There is no cost to use
    this amazing service. You can learn more about this project at
    http://librivox.org Also, don’t think you are limited to what is on the Librivox
    site. Any book in the public domain can be turned into an audio version,
    packaged and sold to interested customers.
  3. Stock photograph collections -
    Creative people of all types are always looking for additional royalty free
    stock photo collections that they can use for projects. With literally millions
    of photographs in the public domain, you could gather themed groups of
    photographs and offer them as stock photograph collections to interested
    customers.

    You could package these in a variety of ways. The simplest way is to put them on
    CDs or DVDs and sell them in that format. But you could also offer a digital
    download site where people pay for each photograph that they download or a
    membership site where they pay a one time or monthly fee to access all the
    photographs in the collection.

  4. Clip art collections – Clip art is basically line
    art or simple drawings. As with the stock photograph collections above, clip
    art collections are very popular and can be delivered in a variety of ways.

    A great example of using public domain clip art (or really any public domain
    material) in printed books is Dover Publications. They have a huge catalog of
    books – republished public domain works and compilations of public domain
    materials.

  5. Prints/Posters/Maps – Prints is a very large area of the public domain and with
    modern printing equipment, you can actually run a highly profitable print shop
    in your house.

    Prints can come in all sizes – anything from postcard size to huge posters – and
    can be offered on a variety of papers and materials – even canvas.

    So what can be printed? The list is almost endless. You could print civil war
    photographs, old maps NASA space mission images, Military images, fine art
    posters. You can even combine elements of images and build your own unique
    images for printing – like a series of motivational posters with moving scenes
    and motivational quotes blazoned across the top of the poster.

  6. Calendars – Every year people buy millions of calendars about a huge variety of
    topics. Why not take some of the public domain photos or artwork you have access
    to and design and sell a calendar to a specific niche? For instance, you could
    make a WWII D-Day calendar with photos of events related to D-Day with
    descriptive captions below it. Or a generic WWII calendar with the photos and
    captions of the most famous events of WWII and short historical blurbs in the
    various date boxes highlighting important days in the war?
  7. Cards – There are a variety of cards that can be made of public domain images.
    These include postcards, playing cards, flash cards, sports cards, etc.

    The key to success in the card business is again to theme the cards to an
    interest that you identified. For instance, the Library of Congress has a great
    collection of baseball cards from around 1900 online. An enterprising person
    could use them to make decks of playing cards and market them during baseball
    season. Lots of folks who like baseball play cards and would be thrilled to have
    such a unique pack of cards to enjoy while playing their game.

    Or maybe you could republish the cards as a limited collectors set. Or use them
    as the basis of an early baseball trivia game. Or a set of postcards. As you can
    see, there are a number of ways you can use cards with public domain images to
    make interesting products.

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Print Poster Art From Historic Photos Under Public Domain

Poster prints made from historic photography can be an amazing form of personal
expression. However, is it legal to reproduce the work of the photographer? For
residents of the United States, we enjoy a freedom in copyright law known as
public domain. Public domain isn’t exactly easy to understand, but for the
purpose of this article we do not need to understand it in great depth. The
concept of public domain states that copyrights must be renewed after a certain
period of time or the copyright protection lapses allowing it to enter public
domain. This means that we can’t legally print poster art of all historic
photos, but only those whose copyright protection has lapsed and have entered
public domain.

When you are printing a poster with a historic photo, be sure to check on the
status of the photographers copyright on that image. Copyrights for older
artwork may not have been renewed and the artwork might have entered public
domain. To be sure, do the proper research before reproducing a famous photo or
painting.

If you are concerned about the legality of using historic photos to print poster
designs, you can choose to use public resources like the library of congress.
American memory is a collection of photos, videos and advertisement in the
library of congress that pertains to U.S. history and has fallen under public
domain. Many of these photos can be freely used in your poster print without
having to worry about copyright restrictions. Such photos will display a small
caption allowing the use of the artwork.

There are two ways to recreate artwork that is under copyright protection. A
common example of copyrighted art being reproduced in a legal fashion is the
Mona Lisa. Mona Lisa poster prints are sold in many retail poster vendors. This
is accomplished by paying the Louvre Museum in Paris a small fee for
reproduction. However, a more common method is to print a reproduction of a
reproduction of a famous work of art. This may seem confusing, but we can better
understand this concept through an example. If I were to visit the Louvre Museum
in Paris with a high-end professional digital camera and take a picture of the
Mona Lisa, that photography work is mine. I could then turn and copyright my
work or let it enter public domain. If it enters public domain, another person
could use that digital photo file to print a Mona Lisa poster print for personal
use. However, this becomes complicated with famous paintings and we recommend
that you only reproduce artwork that is officially under public domain.

Print poster designs using historic photography to use as decorations or give as
gifts. These unique poster prints will add character to any home or business and
can be created at an affordable cost. A vintage frame and a black and white
historic photo will look elegant, while an old advertisement in a plain black
frame will look fun and artistic. Start searching for photos under public domain
that you can use for your next poster print project.

This article aims to provide readers important information regarding poster
print
and how to print poster art from historic photos under public domain.

Jay Jenson is a freelance writer, with 5 years of experience in the printing and
graphic design industry. Currently, he resides in Los Angeles, California,
working in the field of marketing and public relations.
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Poster prints made from historic photography can be an
amazing form of personal expression. However, is it legal to
reproduce the work of the photographer? For residents of the
United States, we enjoy a freedom in copyright law known as
public domain. Public domain isn’t exactly easy to
understand, but for the purpose of this article we do not
need to understand it in great depth. The concept of public
domain states that copyrights must be renewed after a
certain period of time or the copyright protection lapses
allowing it to enter public domain. This means that we can’t
legally print poster art of all historic photos, but only
those whose copyright protection has lapsed and have entered
public domain.




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