Friday, November 21, 2008

NEED MORE CONTENT, USE PUBLIC DOMAIN INFORMATION

If you are doing articles, newsletters, blogs, ebooks, books, websites. Do you need more content? Do you need more ideas on what to write about? Public Domain is a great place to get ideas and material. You can use it as it is or use it for ideas and write something yourself with that as the source for the information. What is public domain? It is material the public can use any way that they want. It falls into four main categories:
A. General information like facts, numbers, ideas, titles, blank forms and more.
B. Works granted or donated to be used by the public from public domain.
C. Works by the government or it's agents.
D. Formerly copyrighted works that have not been renewed. They are now in the public domain. They can also loose it due to a number of different situations.

This is a good way to learn more, as you write it for others. If you didn't know it - others might not know it as well.

Not everything on the Internet is public domain. There are stiff penalties for violations of copyright laws.

Things written in the United States before 1923 are in public domain. That is a lot of things to use. Between the years of 1923 - 1963 if the copyrights have not been renewed then that is also in public domain. Of the ones that need to be renewed about 85% have not been renewed. That is a lot of material to be used by anyone that wants to use it.

A lot of places charge for public domain material. They reprint the material and sell them on websites, in book stores. So money can be made with the material from public domain.

In public domain there is also movies, music, images, photos,footage, books,videos,films, mp3 these are a few of the things that are in public domain.

These are sites that are good places to look for public domain information. www.ezau.com This is a good place to look for a lot of different categories. Check it out
www.booksforabuck.com This site shows other free book sites and public domain sources. It also has these four sections:
News and reviews - this is the what's new section.
Affordable ebooks - they sell from $ 1.00 - $ 3.99 and better still some absolutely free ebooks and stories.
Writers - this is a place to publish your work with them, to provide information of value to all writers no matter who they are publishing with.
Sell us your book - this area has frequently asked questions and other things.

If these are not what you need, then do a search for free public domain and find what you need. This is a great source for information to use how you want, even selling it.

copyright 2008 Dan & Deanna Finlinson
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great informations :-)
You saved me a lot of time, and that is totally awesome!

Thank You.
Giovanna Garcia

Anonymous said...

Hi Dan & Deanna,

Thank you for sharing this valuable information. We're sure this will come in very handy. Your post are always filled with great information.

Many Blessings....
Hugo and Roxanne
~ Believe Achieve ~

Anonymous said...

Giovanna, nice to see you back again. I am glad that you can use the information. Have a great day.
Deanna "Marketing Unscrambled"

Anonymous said...

Hugo and Roxanne, thank you, I am glad that it can be used.
Deanna "Marketing Unscrambled"