Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Easy Ways to Find Public Domain Works

By James T Maxwell

Can you imagine an endless supply of free content that you can use in whatever way you want? Well, it actually exists. It's called Public Domain work and it's a goldmine to marketers everywhere. Public Domain works include text, video, image or audio files that are free to use by anyone without worrying about copyright laws. So how do you tap into the smorgasbord of PLR available to you? Please review the following on how you can take advantage of this resource.

Public Domain Texts Online

There are literally hundreds of thousands of pages of content online that are freely available. Project Gutenberg publishes many public domain works and makes them available completely free of charge.

Do a quick search on Google for many places that public domain materials are found. Or you can check out the Project Gutenberg site where thousands of public domain works are published for all to use free of charge.

Government Resources

What if you are looking for scientific or other de-classified information that only the government has? Well, you can relax as anything the government publishes is automatically copyright-free and you can use it for your own purposes. Some things that can be found include declassified transcripts, images taken by NASA and photographs taken by the military.

This is just a short list of some of the materials that can be found thanks to the government. There are public domain materials on any and all subjects that can be used to make a fortune. There are many marketers who have made a killing just by packaging together material found on government websites and selling it as their own.

Find Public Domain Audio Books

There are plenty of audio books you can find online that are public domain. These audio books are usually read by a human voice who's volunteered to read the book free of charge. Again, you can simply download these audio books and republish them for your purposes.

A popular book that many people use is "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. You can find an audio version of the book and use it to promote your business.

Once you download the audio file, you can use them however you wish, as part of a compilation of work, a series of short stories or as part of a larger collection of audio files. The possibilities are endless when it comes to public domain audio books.

Find Expired Copyright Books

There are many old books that fall under the public domain rules, such as any works written and published before 1923. That means the materials found therein can be used in any way you'd like to recreate favorite tales or create a collection of stories from this age.

Find public domain books in old bookstores or in online directory sites for old or obscure titles. Once you purchase the public domain books, you can have them scanned in and you can either use parts of the written material or all of it for reprint. Or you can have tem transcribed and use them for other formats, although this may involve more time and a fee to find someone to do this for you.

If you find an ancient book on Martial Arts, chances are nobody else in the world is using it. You can publish the book as your own and make a whole lot more money than a publicly available work.

Make Money Using Public Domain

So you can probably see that there's a good deal of money to be made from public domain materials. If you are smart and locate useable materials that are copyright-free, you will soon be on your way to making money with relatively little effort.

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