Anyone who has more than a passing interest in using public domain resources in their business has run across the problem of finding a particular out of print book that is in the public domain.
You may have searched your favorite places looking for a used copy - eBay, AbeBooks, Alibris, Amazon - all to no avail. Read the rest of this entry »
Baseball season is right around the corner and what could be more fun for the die hard baseball fan than his or her very own set of trading cards from an early American baseball team? The Library of Congress has 2100 digitized baseball cards from 1887 to 1914. The cards show such legendary figures as Read the rest of this entry »
One of the huge challenges of working with the public domain is the amount of time it can take to just find the digital repositories on the web. There are literally tens of thousands of these repositories scattered all over. They can be quite difficult to find and often take quite a bit of detective work to ferret the locations out of your favorite search engine.
Tony Landig has come up with an elegant solution to this problem Read the rest of this entry »
Many people love jigsaw puzzles and would be absolutely delighted to purchase jigsaw puzzles with images that related to their hobbies. Imagine a Civil War enthusiast being able to purchase puzzles depicting famous civil war scenes from one of the public domain archives - like the ones at the Library of Congress. They would love it. Read the rest of this entry »
When seeking US published works in the public domain, there is a gray area from 1923 to 1963 where the book may or may not be in the public domain. To determine if a book with a copyright in that date range is in the public domain and freely usable, take the following steps. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m a space buff. I’ve been one for as long as I can remember. Before the internet, I purchased a wide variety of “space” things - trinkets, models, books, space ice cream, puzzles, etc. As I’ve aged, my desire for trinkets has dropped (and honestly my interest in space has dropped too as there is no longer the excitement that existed in the early days.) But as my desire has dropped, the amount of text information, photographs, film clips and sound recordings from NASA archives has increased exponentially. This phenomenon is entirely due to the internet and the efforts of the government to make massive archives of data available to researcher and layperson alike. Read the rest of this entry »
Today we will walk step by step through the creation and marketing of a money making project based on public domain information.
Yesterday on eBay, I discovered a seller offering a variety of CDs and the ones that caught my interest were the screensaver CDs. Based on the pricing, it seemed a lot of cost and work for a small payback. Read the rest of this entry »
