Surely you have heard of Ted Turner and Walt Disney, but do you know what they have in common? Both of these men started companies based Public Records materials. Walt Disney updated or modernized characters from Grimm's Fairy Tales, and Ted Turner founded Turner Classic Movies using many Public Records movies.With Public Records materials rapidly becoming a very hot commodity these days, your competition for these materials gets more demanding daily. If you go to Google.com and search for Public Records, there are over 40 million sites resulting from this search. So, how do you weed through these millions and Click here to read more from this article
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One of the easiest places to find authoritative Public Records content is ... your local used bookstore or library!
True -- virtually everything contained in the books you'll find at these locations were protected by copyright. But ... it's also true that many of these copyrights have expired -- making the contents of those volumes completely Public Records.
US copyright law has gone through several iterations -- but the two things you need to remember are "75 years from copyright date" and "Sonny Bono"!
The copyright law originally stated that a copyright would last for 75 years. Thus, if a book were copyrighted Click here to read more from this article
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