Top Five Ideas To Build Fortune From Public Domain Riches for Homebased Business
Top Five Ideas To Build Fortune From Public Domain Riches for Homebased Business
(c) by Shraddha Naik
If you are new to internet and copyright laws you might be wondering what is “Public Domain Riches”. Public domain information is defined as any content in the form of books, articles of creative works and other knowledgeable information that is not protected by US copyright laws. Copyright protection needs further verification, but de facto, works done prior to 1923 are known to be public domain information. The law also includes literary works done prior to 1978, for as long as the life of the author in addition to seventy years does not exceed the current running year. Here is a list of top 5 ideas that you can make use for building a fortune for your homebased business.
1. Archive.org and Project Gutenberg are arguably the best known resources for public domain riches, articles and books. Both websites allows you to view or download public domain works in a variety of formats. There are other great lists of resources in the web that you can find from search engines that you can use to find public domain work as well.
2. Just because something is public domain, it doesn’t mean that related works are also necessarily public domain. The old Superman cartoons from the 40s are public domain riches, for example, but that doesn’t mean all of Superman is in public domain as well. So make sure to double check what elements of a public domain work can be used. The Wikipedia page for each public domain item usually indicates its legal status.
3. You can make a repository of downloadable albums of old classical songs. You have a perfect workable chance to make MP3 downloads that are actually legal. However, please note that only the songs are free public domain. The works of certain versions like Beethoven Classics are separate copyrights in themselves. It would be alright to make your own version from the public domain compositions, check for the copyrights though.
4. You can offer downloadable movies from public domain riches. Ted Turner and many others have made a killing with public domain riches. One of Turner’s famous channels, Turner Classics shows movies made pre-1923 which he was able to rebroadcast without having to pay any royalties. If he can do so why can’t you. You can definitely do the same by offering old movies for download as bonus your website.
5. You can make posters of priceless masterpieces from public domain riches. You can also search the internet for high quality pictures of classic paintings, cartoons and pencil sketches. The electronic and digitized form of these masterpieces can easily be reproduced as posters. You can make a killing if you could sell these to the millions of art aficionados worldwide.
There are other free, but non-public domain riches that you can utilize in your website but always make sure you are crediting them properly.
