Cashing In On Public Domain Content

I assume anyone who reads this knows what public domain is. Yes, it’s a literary, musical, photography, motion pictures , government forms, radio broadcasts works that are not protected under U.S. copyright laws therefore own by the public. It’s usually works that are published before 1923. Those publications published between 1923 and 1973 that have copyrights but were no longer renewed are also considered public domain.

Public domain is like a cash cow, many people are making money out of it. Those people who are resourceful enough and creative enough will really reap the fruits of their labor. I’d say resourceful because you have to find a public domain work and tie it up with a hot niche and creative if you can repackage it in a way the people think it’s original and will certainly buy it.
It’s been kind of an insider secret when it comes to making money using public domain content. But not until now that many people are very much aware of it. Though, not too many people know about it and really start the project. But those who do, will absolutely see results.

The first step is to find a public domain work, totally read it and once you know what’s it’s all about, you tie it up with a niche you think is saleable these days. Then you can scan the material and digitized it if you want to make it into an e-book and slap your name on it. And sell it on your website. Yes you can do that.

Actually there are many ways you can repackage a public domain content like you can cut and slice it and turn it into articles for your website and article directories to generate lots of traffic for your site, you can turn it into an e-book to distribute at your site for viral marketing purposes. You can use it as a newsletter content and build your mailing list, also you can take bits and pieces of it and turn it into training courses and upload it to your autoresponder so people can subscribe to it.

Others repackaging ideas are for: podcast content, blog content, membership sites, mini courses, presentations, teleclass content, webcast content. If you have multi media knowledge you can make it into video courses and instruction manuals You see there are lots of ideas you can use to make it interesting. You just have to present it in a unique way.

One of the popular examples of people who used public domain creatively and profitably was Walt Disney when he made the motion picture Snow White. Snow White is an old European folklore , retold by the Brothers Grimm a hundred years before Walt Disney decided to use it. Disney repackaged it by changing the names, changing the treatment of the story by making it warm, fuzzy, funny and by using the medium of animated film. And today many generations after Snow White is still very popular cartoon character.

Using Public Domain is a painless way to start a project and make money out of it. It saves you a lot of time and effort. You can get your project off and running as soon as you want it. Here are few links you can browse for public domain works:

http://www.projectgutenberg.org
http://creativecommons.org/
http://digitalbookindex.com
http://invisible-web.net/
http://ibiblio.org/
http://census.gov/
http://firstgov.gov/
http://public-domain-content.com/
http://primarilypublicdomain.org/
http://eldritchpress.org/
http://archive.org/
http://pgdp.net/c/default.php

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