There are a lot of ways to make money on the World Wide Web that a lot of internet users from different parts of the globe are currently engaged in different fields of eCommerce. They can be lucrative, well-known businesses or small yet manageable means of making money online. Any of these can be an option that the person can opt for to be able to earn on the sides aside from the normal 9 to 5 jobs that he or she are employed to every single day. For this article, the idea of making money through expired copyrights will be discussed as this is a possible though normally misunderstood sideline that people adopt when on the web.
If you have just been given an opportunity to make money through this kind of means and are curious as to how the job works, then this article is for you. Basically books and other kinds of works published online are marked with copyrights, which are intellectual rights that owners like authors, directors, photographers and artists exercise to claim ownership of their works that are made open to the public domain. There is a need to place such copyrights onto these works because many internet users have the knowledge and the skill to redistribute these works to different parts of the net, using their own websites for instance, and claiming them as their own. This is obviously a violation of rights for the owners of these works and, at times, a liability on the part of the ISP’s or internet service providers. Not only are they involved in such cases (though without actual participation), the reputation of the company can be tainted because of lack of protection for their subscribers.
So if you want to make money online using other people’s works, the best options are either to ask for permission from the creators themselves or use expired copyrights and domains to be able to make money without violating any copyright laws or misinterpreting copyright information. Here are some tips on how to gain copyright information and how to make money with expired copyrights:
o You have to remember that reselling expired copyrights go hand-in-hand with risks of copyright infringement. So before selling digital goods such as e-books, music, and the like for the public domain, you have to make sure that the copyrights of the book has already expired and has not been renewed by the author or owner of such works.
o Copyrights or patents of works normally have durations of 20 to 50 years in most countries, so you have to remember that any work in which their copyrights were bought 20 to 50 years before the current year are considered expired and open to the public domain if not renewed by the author. Once you are able to confirm that the patent has expired, then you can use these to make money.
o An example of the trend of the business: a book’s copyrights have expired and are now open to the public’s use. A person who wishes to make money out of this can do so by reusing the ideas of the book, adding more updated information to add flavor and credibility, and then selling it to his or her target market.
Source by Bob Silber
