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Copyright 2005 Ewen ChiaIf you're in the business of marketing online, a major portion of your income will come from your ability to deliver quality content and products to your market. Now, besides creating these yourself, one of the quickest and cheapest way to acquire all the content and products you need is in the Public Records. Whatever your requirements, you can find almost anything in the Public Records. Examples include texts, audio, images, stock video, music and software...which you can flexibly use in whichever ways you want! A word of warning though... While a large portion of this
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Public Records Profits
By Stephen Bucaro
Copyright law goes back to the founding fathers who, in
order "to promote the progress of science and useful arts"
in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, secured for
authors, artists and inventors the exclusive right to
their work for 28 years. In 1909, the Copyright Act
allowed that after 28 years, protection could be renewed
for another 28 years. In 1978, the law was revised to
provide protection until 50 years after the creater's death.
The 1978 law also extended previous unexpired copyrights
for another 47 years.
To put it in simple terms, anything created before 1923 is
now in the Public Records. Anything created between 1924
and 1963 is in the Public Records unless the copyright was
renewed. Most of the time these copyrights were not renewed
because either the owners weren't making any money off the
work, or they just forgot the deadline.
Have you noticed a lot of TV commercials using rock music
written in the early 60's. Why be creative when you can
steal somebody elses work who didn't renew the copyright?
Another question - can we profit from material in the
Public Records? Yes, but you may need to be a little
creative to do so. And guess what? Once you modify
something in the Public Records, you automatically have a
copyright on the modified version - until 50 years after
your death! Unless you're a corporation, then it's 100
years!
And some of that Public Records material is high quality
- from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as
well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar
Rice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland by Lewis
Carroll, and thousands of others.
Add to this the fact that you can use anything created by
the Federal Government or its employees in the course of
their duties. You paid for it with your taxes. This gives
you access to millions of great photographs, including
those taken by NASA.
You can get these Public Records materials TOTALLY FREE and
keep all the money when you sell them. Let me give you a
few profit ideas to get your creativity started.
1. Update an old classic story with new artwork.
2. Take an old classic story and write a variation.
3. Make an old classic into a simulated antique book.
4. Turn an old classic into something else, like a game.
5. Make an old classic or government photo based theme
product, for example, a time management notebook.
6. Make an electronic or audio version of an old classic.
7. Turn an old classic into an educational item.
8. Make Public Records photographs into a calendar, poster,
or screen saver.
9. Gather a library or collection of Public Records
materials to sell to publishers.
I'm sure you can think of many other creative ideas. Any
one of these ideas can be the basis for a Web business.
Where can you find Public Records material? You can go to a
good search engine and search with the terms "public
domain" or "government". Let me give you a few excellent
sources of Public Records materials to get you started.
- The Gutenberg Project (www.gutenberg.org) is an archive
of over 3000 Public Records books in plain text format
available for free download.
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
- US Army Corps of Engineers (www.usace.army.mil) Over 5,900
images cleared available for public release and are free
for use. 700 under keyword "scenic".
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(www.noaa.org)
- NASA (http://visibleearth.nasa.gov)
- Library of Congress - Prints & Photographs Online catalog
(www.loc.gov) Not all loc images are in the Public Records.
If the image is not in the Public Records, only a thumbnail
image is displayed.
- Images in the Public Records (www.sru.edu/depts/cisba/
compsci/dailey/public/public_domain.htm)
- A directory of Public Records sites
(http://homepage.mac.com/krohrer/iad/links/clipart.html)
If you want to start a business, why get involved in an
MLM pyramid recruiting scam when the work of the best
writers, artists, and photographers in history is
available to create products for your own business
for FREE?
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About the Author
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Ask any internet marketer and they will tell you that writing
articles is one of the most important ways they use to market
their products or website or services online.
Everyone on the internet is looking for some kind of
information. And articles are a powerful tool, not only to
disseminate information but to advertise your site, your
product, even yourself!
An article is usually short and concise but loaded with relevant
information.
Why Write Articles?
A good article can turn a casual reader into a customer.
Here's how you use your Public Records content to create
articles.
Copy and paste brief sections to produce targetted articles. If
your niche is 'collecting
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Stephen Bucaro
Musselshell County Montana public records
Public Records consists of all inspired work and other
information (Music, invention, artwork, writing, technology,
etc.,) on which no one i.e. Person or Organization claims an
ownership. Such information is considered to be part of Public's
inheritance and anyone can exploit them for their needs without
any restriction.
Public Records can be General information which includes facts,
ideas, templates, etc. which could be used by anybody for their
needs. Public Records may also be works that may be donated for
Pubic Domain. Some of the works by Government also falls under
Public Records.
Copyright was designed to get a financial spur to the owner
while works in Public Records are
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Using Public Records works to make money is certainly a good idea; however Public Records works marketing might have you a bit confused. To understand how to both make money and market Public Records works, you will want to understand what Public Records means.
Public Records information includes works published before 1923, which includes a whole host of literary works, government documents and the like that are still used today. For instance, Shakespeare, Ben Franklin and other famous figures' writings are available in the Public Records free for the taking. Also, any work published in the United States between 1923 and
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