Top 2 Mistakes of Using Public Domain Works in E-books to Make Money Online

Posted on July 28, 2009
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For those of us who are non lawyers, finding out whether a work is in the public domain can be quite complicated. Get the help of a lawyer friend if you have, or search the internet for easy steps to determine the status of a work. If the work is determined to be for public use, you can do pretty much what you want with it.

So the first mistake is not checking properly if the work is really of public domain. If the work is really in the public domain, you can use the work as you deem fit without informing the author. If you change and edit the work, you can claim the works with you as the author.

So what can you do with public domain works? You can use the entire work, or just use a certain part of the work. You can digitize old books to sell as e-books, and you can also explore other formats of public domain works such as film, audio or photos.

The second mistake comes after you have substantially edited, updated and improved on the original material. You can and need to copyright it! For example, even if you extract different parts of photos or written material from 20 different works that you can legally use, you can still copyright it and put your name as the author!

So here are the top 2 mistakes that most people make when using public domain works in e-books or other information products to make money online. To explain the whole legal process of checking whether the work is really legally possible for you use or edit and call your own or not will take a much longer article to explain, so do consult your lawyer friends or search the internet for more in depth information on it.

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