Saturday, August 28, 2010

How to Republish Public Domain Works?

By Yvon Anderson
Public Domain has been one of the most popular topics for infopreneurs or widely known as entrepreneurs, questions such as how to republish Public domain works are frequently asked to gain more income. Indeed, one can gain money just from being resourceful in using the contents of public domain and that is exactly what are we going to learn from this article.

Republishing a work coming from Public domain is not that difficult, soon as you learn what your next action is you can have a 100% legal prevention from anyone stealing your work that also comes from the public sphere. You need to understand that republishing something should not be 100 percent identical to the original one. In other words, what is likely to happen is that you personalize the work coming from the public domain to look like exactly what you want it to be. Say for example in a work that originally comes from a "paper and ink", changing the cover page into more of your personality or perhaps what-you-think-the-topic-should-be will be helpful to accentuate your own characteristics. It could also be significantly good if you could do something about the format of the text, paraphrasing some words to avoid plagiarism, changing some of its content as long as the idea is there is extravagantly wonderful in helping you republish your work coming from the public sphere or domain.

Of course, when you do this, it is given that the alterations that have been done can possibly be copyrighted by no other than you. Though the original text is in the public sphere itself, the benefit that you can have is still the same just like anyone who wants to copyright their works.

Now there is some good question being frequently asked by lots of people, " Should I apply for putting copyright law on my work?" The answer will be one has used to register for putting copyright protection in their works. But after 1978, that is no longer the case. Now all you have to do is let people know that your work is copyrighted by you. It not a technical requirement for now in order to publish and republish some works to be published in the public domain. Because technically speaking as for now, registering one's work for copyright protection is optional. For those people who in not satisfied unless they put extra protection on their works then the copyright notice is always there to hand you their service.

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