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----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the following article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes are made and the byline, copyright, and theresource box below is included. ----------------------------------------------------------Public Domain ProfitsBy Stephen BucaroCopyright law goes back to the founding fathers who, inorder "to promote the progress of science and useful arts"in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, secured forauthors, artists and inventors the exclusive right totheir work for 28 years. In 1909, the Copyright Actallowed that after 28 years, protection could be renewedfor another 28 years. In 1978, the law was revised toprovide protection until 50 years after the creater's death.The 1978 law also extended previous unexpired copyrightsfor another 47 years.To put it in simple terms, anything created before 1923 isnow in the public domain. Anything created between 1924and 1963 is in the public domain unless the copyright wasrenewed. Most of the time these copyrights were not renewedbecause either the owners weren't making any money off thework, or they just forgot the deadline.Have you noticed a lot of TV commercials using rock musicwritten in the early 60's. Why be creative when you cansteal somebody elses work who didn't renew the copyright?Another question - can we profit from material in thepublic domain? Yes, but you may need to be a littlecreative to do so. And guess what? Once you modifysomething in the public domain, you automatically have acopyright on the modified version - until 50 years afteryour death! Unless you're a corporation, then it's 100years!And some of that public domain material is high quality- from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well aswell-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories bySir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of EdgarRice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland by LewisCarroll, and thousands of others.Add to this the fact that you can use anything created bythe Federal Government or its employees in the course oftheir duties. You paid for it with your taxes. This givesyou access to millions of great photographs, includingthose taken by NASA.You can get these public domain materials TOTALLY FREE andkeep all the money when you sell them. Let me give you afew 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 domain photographs into a calendar, poster, or screen saver.9. Gather a library or collection of public domain materials to sell to publishers.I'm sure you can think of many other creative ideas. Anyone of these ideas can be the basis for a Web business.Where can you find public domain material? You can go to agood search engine and search with the terms "publicdomain" or "government". Let me give you a few excellentsources of public domain materials to get you started.- The Gutenberg Project (www.gutenberg.org) is an archiveof over 3000 public domain books in plain text formatavailable for free download.- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (www.jpl.nasa.gov)- US Army Corps of Engineers (www.usace.army.mil) Over 5,900images cleared available for public release and are freefor 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 domain.If the image is not in the public domain, only a thumbnailimage is displayed.- Images in the Public Domain (www.sru.edu/depts/cisba/compsci/dailey/public/public_domain.htm)- A directory of Public Domain sites(http://homepage.mac.com/krohrer/iad/links/clipart.html)If you want to start a business, why get involved in anMLM pyramid recruiting scam when the work of the bestwriters, artists, and photographers in history is available to create products for your own businessfor FREE?----------------------------------------------------------Resource Box:Copyright(C)2002 Bucaro TecHelp. To learn how to maintainyour computer and use it more effectively to design a Website and make money on the Web visithttp://bucarotechelp.comTo subscribe to Bucaro TecHelp Newsletter Send a blankemail to bucarotechelp-subscribe@topica.com---------------------------------------------------------- Article Tags: Public Domain Materials, Public Domain, Anything Created, Domain Materials, Classic Into