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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!

Discover the treasure that lies hidden in the public domain
works and repackage the content as your own money making
information product.

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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.

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.

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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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.

List building and Email promotions are two crucial factors
for successful online business marketing. Building a
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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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!

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
eight ideas to spark your imagination!

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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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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.

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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Public domain (PD) content includes any documents that can be used by the public
for any purpose. You can break down public domain material into four different
categories. The first category is general information. This is information
that is widely known such as U.S. state capitals or other facts and figures.
The second category is for works such as films and books that were donated by
their creators to the public domain. This means that the creators did not
copyright the works and made them available for use by the public.

The third type of PD material is works by the government or representatives of
the government. This can include manuals, brochures, special reports, and other
related documents. The fourth and final type of PD material is works that were
copyrighted at one time but have lost their copyright for some reason. This can
include works that were created before 1923 or works created between 1923 and
1963 that have lapsed copyrights that were never renewed. So what does this
mean for you? It means that you can take advantage of this PD material and use
it to generate profits you never thought possible.

Finding Public Domain (PD) Materials

If you’re going to take advantage of PD material, you need to know where to find
it without a lot of frustration. There are several great online resources where
you can literally find millions of pages of free PD material. One of the best
resources available is Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg is a compilation of
over 19,000 free e-books, most of which are in the public domain.

These PD e-books can be used in many ways; in fact, Project Gutenberg encourages
the use and distribution of the materials found in their database. The online
catalog is easy to use and allows you to search for e-books by author’s name or
by specific keywords. This makes it convenient and easy for you to find the
e-book you are looking for.

Another great resource for PD works is Alibris. Alibris is an online bookstore
featuring over 60 million books that are used, new, or out-of-print and can be
found at Alibris. Not all of the books at this bookstore are in the PD, so be
careful when you’re looking for public domain works. The easiest way to do this
is to use the Advanced Search feature to search for works published before 1923.

To perform this type of search, click on “Advanced Search” and type “1923″ in
the search box for “publication year.” You can also search for books published
after 1922 and before 1964 to find books from 1923 to 1963 that may be in the
PD. It is important to conduct more in-depth copyright research for these
titles to make sure that these works are indeed in the PD.

Google is also a great resource for works in the public domain. Google has many
features that allow you to search web sites, books, and other works for
information. You can do a search for “public domain books” or “public domain
information” and visit specific web sites that have PD information. You can
also search Google for specific search terms and find information that is in the
PD. Always perform copyright searches to ensure that you can use each work
freely and without infringing upon anyone else’s copyrights.

Profiting with Public Domain Content

There are many ways for you to take free public domain content(PDC) and turn it
into sizeable profits. The key is to find public domain materials that people
are interested in and then market them to your prospects in a way that makes
them very attractive to potential buyers. Your imagination is the only thing
that can limit your profits when it comes to using PDC.

E-Courses with Public Domain Content

If you’ve ever wanted to develop an e-course, using PD content is one of the
fastest and easiest ways to do so. There are many ways for you to use public
domain works to develop an e-course. One is by using a public domain e-book and
building lessons around the e-book. You may choose a literary e-book and
develop lessons pertaining to that piece of literature. You can also split an
e-book up into several sections and send your course subscribers one section per
week with related course materials.

However you choose to package your e-course, using a work from the public domain
speeds up the course development process and makes it easier for you to start
distributing your course and making profits.

Special Reports with Public Domain Content

If you’ve been struggling to produce a special report that you can sell or
include with the purchase of your products and services, public domain works may
be the answer you’ve been looking for. Instead of struggling to write pages and
pages of a special report, you can use a work from the public domain, tweak it
to meet your needs, and distribute it as a special report. This works well for
nonfiction works such as business, marketing, science, and technology e-books.
If the public domain work is long enough, you can package it into several
reports and increase your profits even more than you can with one report.

You don’t necessarily need to sell the report individually to see profit. You
can use the special report as an incentive for customers to purchase your other
(more expensive) products and services.

Newsletters with Public Domain Content

If you want to energize your weekly or monthly newsletters with informative and
interesting content, you can use PDC to save time and writing costs. A few
searches for your topic of interest may yield copyright-free e-books and
articles that you can use in your newsletter.

Just because these PD works don’t exactly match what you’re looking for doesn’t
mean you can’t use them to create an information-packed newsletter. Because
they’re in the public domain, you can edit these works to meet the needs of your
customers. You can add information, delete information, reword the text, add
graphics and tables, and make any other changes necessary to ensure that your
newsletter will wow your prospects and current customers and make them want to
buy from you again and again.

E-Books with Public Domain Content

Have you always wanted to sell e-books but you’ve never had the time or the
ability to sit down and write a great e-book that will be a valuable information
product? With PDC, you can take works from the PD and turn them into profitable
e-books that boost your sales and your profits.

You can sell the e-books as is or you can make changes and distribute the
improved e-book through your web site. Using public domain works is an easy,
inexpensive, and fast way to sell e-books or use them as incentives for your
customers.

AdSense Campaigns with Public Domain Content

Using PDC is a quick and easy way to develop several AdSense campaigns without
having to write your own content or pay a ghost writer to provide content for
you. Google AdSense campaigns allow you to place advertisements on your web
sites and earn a commission each time someone clicks on one of those
advertisements. When you have a variety of public domain works at your
disposal, you can easily set up AdSense campaigns for a number of different
topics.

Once each site is set up with the advertisements related to your content, you
can start earning commission immediately without doing any more work. This type
of income is residual income – you set up the web pages and continue to reap the
benefits even when the work is done.

SEO with Public Domain Content

Search engine optimization is made easier when you have a ton of relevant
content on your web site. Using free PD works on your web site can help you go
from no content to tons of content in just a few hours. You can post the
content as-is or you can tweak the content so that it includes specific keywords
that will drive even more traffic to your web site. Linking is also an
important of SEO that can benefit from the use of PDC.

You can break PD works into short articles that you submit to online article
directories. Include a resource box with a link to your web site with each
article and you’ll end up with dozens if not hundreds of one-way links to your
web site. These extra one-way links will boost your SEO efforts and can help
you drive targeted visitors to your web site on a daily basis.

Becoming a Resource with Public Domain Content

If your web site offers interesting and relevant information for visitors,
they’ll continue to visit your site whenever they are in need of information.
You can use PD works to bulk up the information on your site and develop a
reputation as a trusted resource in your industry by posting e-books and
articles that can be downloaded for free and read by your visitors.

Basic guide that describes public domain content.

Public domain (PD) content includes any documents that can
be used by the public for any purpose. You can break down
public domain material into four different categories. The
first category is general information. This is information
that is widely known such as U.S. state capitals or other
facts and figures. The second category is for works such as
films and books that were donated by their creators to the
public domain. This means that the creators did not
copyright the works and made them available for use by the
public.

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You may not plan on becoming a famous movie director, but you still have a use
for public domain movies, broadcasts, commercials, and sound bites. These can be
used on websites, or to create CD’s or DVD’s that you can sell.

By far, Buyout Footage at http://www.buyoutfootage.com/pages/pd.html is one of
the hottest places to obtain movies. There is also great film that you can use
at http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger and also at The Library of Congress
at http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/.

At the Live Music Archive at Archive.org, which is located at
http://www.archive.org/details/etree you can find movies of live music shows.
You can also find free footage at the UCLA Film and Television Archive which is
located at http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/.

While these are excellent sources for finding public domain movies, it is
important to realize that you must purchase the work from most of these sources,
with the exception of the public domain works found at Archive.org. However, the
fee may be well worth it depending on what you intend to do with the film that
you want.

There are various ways that you can use old film, broadcasts, and commercials
for financial gain. You may want to use the entire work, or just use parts of it
for your product. You could even make a collection of old commercials for an
informative marketing course!

Again, you need to be aware of the format that the movie you want is delivered
in, and make sure that you have the appropriate software or equipment to
manipulate the movie to turn it into the product that you want it to be, if
editing it is what you have in mind, or to transfer it to the medium that you
want it to be on if you just want to change the delivery format. For instance,
you may want to change something that is on video tape to DVD.

This information on public domain movies has been published for the benefit of
all ‘classics’ seekers.

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Anyone working with public domain materials for any length of time knows that
the U.S. Government is a treasure trove of materials that can be used without
restrictions. Within its web sites (and physical archives) you can find books,
photographs, films, software, demographics databases and much more.

In fact, the vast majority of U.S. Government works have never been granted
copyright protection and become part of the public domain the minute they are
made available. That means that you get access to the very latest materials
whereas with works that were protected by copyright, access to materials is
generally restricted to works that are more than 40 years old.

But like all things, being publicly available does not always mean free.

For instance, certain materials may not be available for download from a
government website in any format and the only way you can access these works is
by purchasing a copy from the appropriate government agency. The fee is in most
instances quite reasonable. But for some specialized databases and annual
subscriptions, the fee can reach thousands of dollars.

But lets be honest… we all like getting things for free. And there is plenty
of government material free for the taking.

The easiest way to seek out specific government works or categories of works is
to know exactly where to go in the huge web of government web sites that exist.
But since they are generally poorly organized and hard to navigate, most people
taking this route find that it ends in frustration and a waste of time.
Fortunately, there is usually a quicker solution.

That solution is Google’s U.S. Government Search at
http://www.google.com/ig/usgov. (You can learn more about it here:

http://www.google.com/help/about_usgovernmentsearch.html.)

This portion of Google’s search engine examines only government websites that
it has indexed and can be an enormously powerful way to troll through government
websites finding works that are just right for your latest project.

So next time you are thinking of using government works in your project, pop on
over to Google’s U.S. Government search to find your materials. I think you’ll
be pleasantly surprised by what you can easily find.

A few caveats you need to be aware of:

1) Not all U.S. Government works are copyright free. Some works were produced
by contractors and have copyright protection or partial copyright protection.
In almost all instances, the government will spell out if this is the case. But
if in doubt, just ask them. They will answer you.

2) Google’s U.S. Government search also returns works from state government
entities. I wish it didn’t but it does. This complicates the search results a
bit because state created works are generally protected by copyright. It doesn’t
mean you can’t use them. You would need to seek permission to use those works.

3) Because of the state results, be prepared to scan several pages of results
from your search and to conduct search refinements to exhaustively identify all
the works you have available for your project.

If you work with public domain materials, you want to learn
all you can about what is available to you as a product
developer. And one of the best source of free to use
materials is the United States Government. Unfortunately
finding works available from the U.S. Government can be
difficult… unless you use this specialized Google search
tool.

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People are fascinated by history documentaries – stories of wars, biographies of
important historical figures, everyday life in well known cities, evolution of
technology and many other aspects of our rich collective history. This
fascination is evident by all the channels on television devoted to this sort of
material including The History Channel, The Military Channel and many others.

And if you watch the documentaries with a critical eye (as opposed to a “be
entertained” eye), you will begin to see how they are developed. You will see
the way they handle scene transitions, working with still images as well as film
clips, how the commentary and the images are weaved together to tell a
compelling story. And if you watch enough of them, you would be able to fully
extract the formula for creating your own documentary.

And thanks to the deluge of public domain film and photographic material that is
now available digitally at no to low cost, acquiring all the pieces for a first
rate documentary can be done on anyone’s budget.

It all starts with an idea for a topic.

From this topic, you would next create an outline of the project. This would be
done with a storyline or storyboard – basically a sketch of the elements of the
documentary and the order in which they would be presented. This storyboard can
be created on paper – as was common in times past – or with software. A search
on your favorite search engine on the phrase “storyboarding software” will
return several packages that can help you with this process. What is nice about
the software is that it is easy to rearrange the story pieces as often as you
wish to make the story line perfect. (When working with paper, this process is
more difficult but can be overcome by working with 3×5 index cards and
rearranging them as needed.)

Once the storyboard is complete, the next step is to write your script. The
length of the script will be determined by the desired length of the documentary
and the speed that the voice talent speaks. If you wish a 60 minute documentary
and the voice talent speaks about 150 words a minute, you will need a script
that is approximately 9,000 words in length.

One additional note about writing the script that needs to be emphasized is to
tone of the reading. You will be handing your script to your voice talent for
him or her to record and that talent will need to know what type of tone to use
throughout the script. Just like a movie script, there need to be markouts in
each section to describe the mood that should be expressed by the voice talent.
If you don’t do this, you will most likely end up with a boring monologue that
will doom your documentary.

Once you have completed the writing of the script and its markouts, it is time
to work with the voice talent to record the script and digitize it for later
importation into your video editing program. At this time, you can review the
audio of the script and make edits, re-record sections that don’t seem to convey
the proper mood, etc.

Now that you know the mechanical requirements of the script, you will link your
script to the storyboard by mapping out the start points in each storyboard
segment with the equivalent start point in the script. What this does is assign
a certain number of words to each storyboard segment (which defines its length.)
This will help you determine the approximate amount of visual material you need
for each segment.

After the storyboard and script are lined up, it is time to gather the visual
materials for each segment and to start laying out everything in your video
editing software. This is the part that requires the biggest time investment as
you will be working to be sure the length of each segment matches the
appropriate ending point for that segment in the audio rendering of the script.
You will also need to ensure that all the transitions of material within each
segment and between segments is smooth. It takes time and patience but the
effort expended here will be the difference between something that is
unwatchable and a stellar documentary. Also, at this time you will probably
discover that you need to replace some of the voice recordings as they may not
convey the exact mood you were looking for as you review the pieces. Just record
those segments again and keep iterating back and forth until you get the
finished product.

Depending on your specific skills and your ready access to the visual materials
and voice talents, you could create your very first documentary in a very short
period of time. It really is a very exciting process and a great way to put your
mark on a fascinating historic event. And who knows, it might even be good
enough to sell to The History Channel.

People are fascinated by history documentaries – stories of
wars, biographies of important historical figures, everyday
life in well known cities, evolution of technology and many
other aspects of our rich collective history. This
fascination is evident by all the channels on television
devoted to this sort of material including The History
Channel, The Military Channel and many others.

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