Public Domain: Source of Online Income
Have you ever used the public domain to make money online? I’ve never tried it before but I know that many are earning lots from this source of income. For the uninitiated, public domain is when a product such as a book, music, photos, software and other media’s copyright expires. These products then can be legally copied and resold for profit.
According to Wikipedia, a product’s copyright is considered expired if the product was created and first published before January 1, 1923, or at least 95 years before January 1 of the current year, whichever is later;
Here are ways that you can earn from public domain products:
- Create infoproducts such as e-books that you can resell
- Use public domain books as site content
- As a marketing tool, you can use public domain products as freebies to earn newsletter subscribers
If you’ve already been using public domain products, care to share some tips?

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