Public content, articles, multi-media are excellent resource for reliable and free information that you can use for home based business if you are on a tight budget. This is one of the great home based business ideas, however, public domain riches are a very subjective field and the interpretation revolves around US copyright laws. It will be prudent to check the laws of your country though. The public domain articles are rich in content though some of the information might be obsolete. Here are top 5 tips that you can use them for home based web business.
1. You can republish old classical works as e-books. The public domain articles and literature you observe in physical book stores are prime examples of making a fortune from public domain information. The publishers did not have to buy the copyrights for these books and still they are able to distribute and sell. You could do the same with e-books.
2. Republish old public domain articles as special reports. As such, you are not likely to find an internet marketing article of pre 1923 era, there are undoubtedly exotic and interesting master pieces from 1923. It is not unusual to see people making sales for a special report they make out of a 1914 article on dog grooming or flower gardening.
3. You can also search your local library for old public domain riches and scan them thoroughly. Convert the images to text with a text bridge program, edit errors, package them nicely in a PDF format, and you are ready to market a royalty free product within no time.
4. If you are going to post public domain articles, add a comment in the footer of your blog that says the works posted are public domain, should they be for any reason become US copyright property, you will remove it. This will help keep you out of trouble if any item moves out in the future.
5. If you modify such work, you own the copyright to the modified work. The best example of this is Thor. Thor is public property, but Marvel owns the copyright to their version of modified Thor. Another example is Walt Disney, who in fact was a marketing genius. He knew how to utilize the public domain riches, and he built an empire of Walt Disney Productions in the process.
Granted that not all the public domain articles are relevant and it takes effort to sort really good content, if you do not exploit the masterpieces you are missing great unique content and also wasting your precious time in writing articles and outsourcing. In fact, you should be utilizing your time in selling the classics to ardent "Art and Antique" admirers and collectors.
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