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[Guy Horton]

Jack,

Excellent PD offer, quality WSO with a price that can't be beat. I have another PD software which does the job but yours is by far the best.

All the best,
Guy

[k0zm0zs0ul]

Hey Jack, just ordered thanks to the kind recommendation of a fellow E1kad'r letting me know this was going on..I have been looking into getting into Public domain content and had so far only found very pricey options. So thanks so much for this Awesome WSO...Please add me to your mailing list as well for further products, as all your stuff seems to come very highly recommended. I will definitely be on the look out for the next video mentioned prior, if it becomes available. Thanks again!
Best Regards,
Cori

[Jeff Usher]

Jack,

I can only add to the compliments being given here on the price of this WSO. I'm on video 7 and am fully engrossed. Excellent videos and very clear instructions ....

My only negative is that the system relies heavily on the the American library system which is not mentioned in the copy. Being based in the UK means the system can not fully be implemented and I became a bit disheartened during video 6 as it lost focus for anyone outside the USA.

If anyone who bought this from outside the USA has any suggestions for alternative solutions, perhaps these could be incorporated in a future update.

Regards

Jeff

[Jack Duncan]

Jeff,
Thanks so much for your kind comments regarding the WSO.

Not sure which video it is in, but I mention that the way to preview the content for free is via the interlibrary loan system...which is actually supported by more than just the U.S...many universities (even overseas) will offer this. (I've actually ordered books from Germany that were not available in the U.S. before)

BUT...I should mention that you can almost always (99%) find a cheap used copy from a bookstore online. Unless you are going for some classic work, first edition, in mint condition...you should have no trouble snagging a copy, shipping included, for under $45.

Keep in mind that you will be making a profit from this content!

You can find more information regarding this here:
International Lending and Document Delivery: Principles and Guidelines for Procedure

Sure hope this helps...feel free to PM me and we can brainstorm a bit more!

Thanks,
Jack

[Jeff Usher]

Jack,

Thanks for the excellent response and suggestion. I'll look into the
UK library system tomorrow and see what I can dig up and what
procedures they have for inter-library lending etc ..... It's not a
place I visit very often .... ;-)

Thanks again for an utterly excellent product and
superb value for money.

Regards

Jeff

[Jack Duncan]

@Jeff,
One thing you can also use, since you are located in the UK, is Copac.

WorldCat will also cover some of this, but Copac is the searchable database of the merged UK and Irish academic and national libraries.

You can find it here:
Copac academic and national library catalogue

- Jack

[melvinm]

Hi Jack,

Never made it to the download page, can you send it to me pls?

Transaction ID: 082903804K240751K

Cheers

Melvin

[Jack Duncan]

PM sent...

[smartmove]

Amazing!
This is the definitive resource.
Simple to use. I'm gonna be up real, real late.
Thanks, Jack!

[Patrick Forbes]

I never comment on WSO's that come across my desk-top, but this time I had to.

I've purchased lots of public domain info products in the past, but they all lacked one essential thing. But not any more.

Jack the way you reversed engineered how to search for PD material is brilliant and super easy.

If you're at all interested in public domain material this is the WSO that you don't want to miss.

Thank you JD!

[viralgold]

HOLY COW! I've been hoping something like this would come along. I've long known the opportunities available using public domain works, but who has time to wade through all the available material? This truly fits the ticket, and I gotta say, I can't believe you're only charging $7.00! Worth MUCH more.

God bless,
Olaina

[Jim M]

Thanks Jack - super product - incredible value!

[Raych]

Hi Jack,
With all this great feedback, I just had to see for myself! Please send me the download link, as I'm not sure I downloaded everything before I lost the link.

ID 19873044RG6810139

Thanks!

[Raych]

Hi Jack,
I managed to access the download link. But...the videos won't start for me. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Jack Duncan]

Raych,
Here are my suggestions (you may have already done some of these steps)

1. Download the video file...or watch them online (at the landing page).

2. Uzip the .rar file using your own software or the free 7Zip utility.

3. Once unzipped (don't try to watch them without unzipping them), you should be able to simply click on the video folders and double click the file that ends in .htm. This should open your deafualt browser and all the controls needed to run the videos will be included and the videos should start automatically.

If after following these three steps (which you may have already done?) you still cannot get the videos to play...try re-downloading them...as sometimes a corrupt file can affect the play.

If that still doesn't work, please email me or PM me and we will get something to work for you!

Thanks...and hope this helps/solves it!

Jack

[Raych]

Thanks, Jack, I managed to get the videos working simply by shutting down my laptop, then bringing it up again. I've been busy viewing the videos -- There's a goldmine here! Just one question: how does someone who lives in Canada take advantage of this amazing software?

[Jack Duncan]

@Raych and Warriors Living Outside the U.S.

The software will show you exactly which works published in the U.S. from 1923-1963 (referred to as the "hidden" public domain) are in the Public Domain.

That's the huge first hurdle...and one that most people are never able to get over!

But what do you do after you know a book or writing is in the public domain and you live OUTSIDE the U.S.? (See videos for my step-by-step instructions for getting a free copy of public domain works if you live inside the U.S.)

1. Do you live near a university or college? Many international libraries participate in International Library Loan. Make a phone call or visit them to find out the specifics. This is a worldwide program!

2. Check Amazon, AbeBooks, BookFinder, Alibris, Powell, AndAll, and Biblio to see if you can find a cheap copy used. (as long as the text is readable, you don't care about the condition...often you can find these books for as cheap as $5.) Most bookstores will gladly ship overseas...once you have the content, you can monetize it any way you please!!!

3. Check to see if there are any copies previously digitized online (there should be only a few...otherwise you may undermine your efforts to promote the content...) Make sure to watch the videos to see ways to "hide" the titles and authors as well as checking for "hard to find" public domain!

4. You could always pay someone to digitize the work for you who has access to it in the U.S. (This would make a killer service for someone to offer...HINT HINT! Setup a site for those outside the U.S. who need to get copies of Public Domain material...then simply charge a fee to obtain the work and scan/photograph the pages.)

5. Check your local library to make sure they don't have a copy. For many of you in the U.K. and Canada...you may already have a copy of the work you are looking for closer at hand than you think!

Hope this helps and creates some great ideas and food for thought!

[Patrick Forbes]

Jack,

Any good resource where one can get physical books digitized?

[Jack Duncan]

Patrick,
I would take a look at Kirtas.
kirtastech.com

These are some of the same machines that Google uses...and they can return it to you in any digital format you wish.

You'll have to see what kind of prices they charge for single book scans.

I've personally used a large bed scanner and Nuance's OCR software. It's a little slow until you have a good system worked out.

Hope that helps!
Jack

[Patrick Forbes]

Thank you Jack for that piece of info.

Much appreciated!

Patrick

[Jack Duncan]

Patrick,
One more thing I forgot...and this will ONLY work if YOU OWN THE BOOK...

It may sound a bit odd...but say you have purchased a PD book for $15 on Amazon.

Take a saw and cut off the spine of the book.

You now have all of the pages loose.

Just take one of the many scanners on the market that have duplex auto sheet feeding. (Xerox makes a good one that can be found in almost any Office Supply store.)

You simply put the pages on the tray and it will take them in, one at a time, and scan both sides of the page.

You will get a super clean scan and many of them will output to PDF.

If you are just selling it as an ebook, there is really no need to digitize the text (OCR) because they can simply read the "original scan". It will have the look and feel of the original (old?) work.

If you want to use the content on a web page, just OCR the scans with consumer grade OCR software. (Omnipage/ABBYY).

You will get really great results this way...just have to destroy the book.

But...if you can get a copy on the cheap...who really cares. Especially if you are going to be selling it as an ebook or making 300+ pages of website content for Adsense clicks.

You get the point.

Jack

[Jack Duncan]

Patrick,
Two more things I forgot.

If you want to price around for these services, the keywords to use when searching are:

bound document digitization services
bound document imaging services
bound document digital scanning
book digitization
book digital imaging services


There are lots of companies that are doing this now because of all of the interest with Public Domain from Google, MSN, and Yahoo.


Second...if you want to see the awesome quality of Kertas technology, take a look at these samples:
Kirtas - Samples

You can also see samples of works that were OCR'd at the bottom of the page.

- Jack

[Raych]

Jack, once I've found a book, had it digitized, etc. put it out there to sell, is there any way I can protect it from being copied directly? It will be a public domain document still at that point, right?

[tj]

Originally Posted by Patrick Forbes

Jack,

Any good resource where one can get physical books digitized?

Patrick, we do scan books for $ 77.00 a piece ..... ok self-advertising off . I bought this WSO and it is great tool for daily work, for the user of the software please keep in mind to double check the results of your findings. Some books are a compilation of other books which are maybe renewed in their copyrights.

Timo

[Jack Duncan]

@Raych,

Yes, public domain will remain public domain.

There are some things you can do to make it "harder" for someone to notice it is a public domain work.

1. Create a compilation work. Compilations are derivative works which ARE protected by Copyrights. (Go to any bookstore in the U.S. and look in the Arts section for the Dover Clip Art Books. Those are public domain images...but compiled into 1 book...protected with a compilation copyright.)

2. Create some additional content like a Forward, Preface, Table Of Contents, Case Studies, etc... Add it throughout the book and you can Copyright your additions...most people will not take the time to determine what you added and what was in the Public Domain.

3. You can change the Title and Author. (You will have to determine if this steps over YOUR "ethical line".)

For instance, say a public domain book was "How To Sew An Amish Quilt" by Thelma Clemens.

You could change the title to "How To Quilt In True Amish Style".

Say you also knew the author's full name was Thelma Louise Rogers Clemens. You could make the author Louise R Clemens. (Legally, you could make the author anybody you wanted...but that isn't really necessary.)

Now..this DOES NOT make the work copyrightable...but it will "throw off" someone trying to find the book for free online or even finding it in a library.

4. Step 1 + Step 2 + Step 3

Find 2 great books on quilting in the Public Domain.

Mash the content up so that you get the best content from both books.

Change the title to whatever you like...it is a compilation work.

"Hidden Secrets Of Professional Amish Quilters" compiled by Jack Duncan

Add a Forward, Preface, a few Public Domain illustrations, and some tips and tricks throughout the text.



What you have is something that is going to be a real pain to try and determine what is copyrighted and what is not.

Hope this helps,
Jack

[Raych]

That certainly helps, Jack. Thank you. Now I think I've found a book I would like to investigate further. I've checked the title and the author, and nothing is showing up in the software, so I take it that is a good sign. Do I need to check further to see if it's in a copyrighted compilation somewhere, and if so, how would I go about that? I'm really excited about this book. I hope I can get a hold of it.

Cheers,

[tj]

Originally Posted by Raych

That certainly helps, Jack. Thank you. Now I think I've found a book I would like to investigate further. I've checked the title and the author, and nothing is showing up in the software, so I take it that is a good sign. Do I need to check further to see if it's in a copyrighted compilation somewhere, and if so, how would I go about that? I'm really excited about this book. I hope I can get a hold of it.

Cheers,

Raych, it is usually mentioned in the beginning of the books pages or in the foreword. Can you ask the person who has the book right now if there are any mentions of that? That would help you before you get the book.

Timo

[Raych]

Hi Timo,
Thanks for your feedback. The book is in a public library in the US, still trying to find out exactly how to get it inter-loaned to a non-US Library (Canada). I think I will go through the process of getting it here, just to get a feel for the actual transfer, then look through it, assuming I am successful. I will see if there is anything in the first few pages about any copyrights. Now if there is a copyright in the foreword, as an example, am I correct in thinking I can still publish the content itself without using the foreword? How do I know they haven't changed anything in the content, or do I even know that?

[tj]

can you pm me - I dont want to disturb Jack's WSO.

Timo

[Jack Duncan]

Raych,
Once you have done a search for the title, author, and are sure that the work was published in the U.S. from 1923-1963, then you just need to make sure you have the edition that was published during that period.

Take a look at the inside cover where all of the copyright information is listed. Does it say Copyright 19XX (less than 1963)?

If yes, then you are holding a public domain work. The only thing you need to look out for is if the book is a compiled work to start with. You will know based on the author's listed and usually it will give you some clue as to whether or not this is compiled work or the author's original work.

Also, as was mentioned in the videos, take a look to see how many editions were offered. If only 1 edition was offered between 1923-1963 and you know there was not a copyright renewal on the title, then as long as there are not large portions of another copyrighted work (see first few pages or footnotes) the work is in the public domain.

Hope this helps!
Jack

[Maria Gudelis]

Jack! Damn you...you did it again! I'm on your notification list as well for your stuff and I've successfully avoided distractions for 5 days now to get some copywriting done...and poof, here I am distracted by the WF and your offer...

Bought it in a snap and love it - especially your piggy bank graphic on the download page

Question for you - what if the book was written in the 80s AND the owner of the published materials - the entity- declared bankruptcy and no longer exists since mid 90s?

Is that potentially public domain?

[Jack Duncan]

miaroman,
Thanks so much for the kind comments and the purchase!

If the work was written in the 80's, the copyright will not expire (assuming they don't bump the rules again...) until 70 years after the author's death.

So, say someone published a book in the U.S. on January 1, 1978 and died on January 2nd. (Bummer dude...)

The work would not enter the Public Domain until January 1, 2049.

Now, you question centers around an "entity" which filed bankruptcy. Based on my findings, the work would be protected for 95 years from the first date of publication or 120 years from the first date of creation...whichever comes first.

The short answer... NO

The work would not be in the public domain just because the entity filed bankruptcy.

(DISCLAIMER: I am not offering any form of legal advice on this forum. If you need legal advice, please contact a licensed attorney. )

Now, believe it or not, I recently ran across someone who was making a real bundle by simply buying distribution rights to a work published in the 70's.

The copyright has NOT expired. But a simple phone call to the Copyright Owner who doesn't see any value in his old book, netted him a distribution license and he is making it hand over fist.

The software will help with that too, because it shows you the Copyright Renewal Number and who holds the current copyright if the work is not in the public domain.

For $37, the U.S. Copyright Office will mail you the renewal information which contains the info needed to contact the Copyright Holder to request distribution rights.

Just reference the Renewal number from the software...

Hope this helps!
Jack

[Maria Gudelis]

Jack - thank you for the detailed answer and the $$$ making opportunity with that. Have a great day, cheers, Mia

[Raych]

Very, very helpful info, Jack, not just to clarify, you said:

"Take a look at the inside cover where all of the copyright information is listed. Does it say Copyright 19XX (less than 1963)?"

I gather you meant to say "Copyright 1963 or earlier"? The book I found was published in 1963 and just want to make sure it is covered within the period we are looking for.

I will go ahead and assume this book is covered. I have already requested it from my local library.

Thanks!

[Jack Duncan]

@Raych,
Good eye!

Your clarification was correct. That should have been "less than 1964".

Glad to hear you are already well on your way...

Let me know how things go for you or if I can be of any additional help!

Jack

[mark8691]

Just came across this offer..

What a fantastic WSO!!

Been studying the Public Domain of late and brought the 1st edition of The Public Domain book second hand last month..

This WSO will be a great help.

Thanks Jack

Mark..

[Rufus Steele]

Jack,

Excellent WSo - I have to add my endorsement along with all the others here! A fascinating resource and a brillliant source of great content. This should make a mint (or two! First three books bought second hand and OCR software standing ready as I write!)

A question if I may? What happens when we find a book that the database say is not renewed - but then check on Amazon and find that book being sold but listed as being published in Jan 1 - 1993? Exact same book author credit etc.

Can't quite get my head around that one!

Regards

Rufus

[tj]

Originally Posted by Rufus Steele

Jack,

Excellent WSo - I have to add my endorsement along with all the others here! A fascinating resource and a brillliant source of great content. This should make a mint (or two! First three books bought second hand and OCR software standing ready as I write!)

A question if I may? What happens when we find a book that the database say is not renewed - but then check on Amazon and find that book being sold but listed as being published in Jan 1 - 1993? Exact same book author credit etc.

Can't quite get my head around that one!

Regards

Rufus

Check copyright.gov

Timo

[Jack Duncan]

@Rufus,

It's very possible that you are simply looking at someone else's Public Domain edition.

I've seen this quite a bit. A work is in the Public Domain, but you will find a copy that says it is copyrighted recently. Most of the time, you will find out that the person slapped a copyright onto a Public Domain work and began selling it. It's not legal...but it's a law that is nearly unenforceable and the fine is pathetic.

If you can get your hands on the earlier version that is in the Public Domain, you should be good to go. The newer edition may have some new content which is protected by copyright.

Hope this helps,
Jack Duncan

[Glenn Newsome]

Ok Jack,
I am in for this one. Excellent pricing and value makes this a no brainer!
Glenn

[TLTheLiberator]

J.

Is there any particular reason you put the videos in a rar zip file instead of the normal winzip zip file?

TL

[Patrick Forbes]

Originally Posted by TLTheLiberator

J.

Is there any particular reason you put the videos in a rar zip file instead of the normal winzip zip file?

TL

Download 7-zip for free at Download and you'll be able to open any ZIPPED folder. Personally I uninstalled WINZIP along time ago as 7-ZIP is much easier to use.

Hope that helps.

Patrick

[Jack Duncan]

TL,
No big reason...just that .rar tends to product a smaller file size for videos.

I'll PM you the link to the .zip version in the event you cannot unzip the .rar.

Thanks!
Jack

[glacier]

This has to be one of the top WSO bargains available

[wilson765]

Jack please please start up a membership site so I can join. If this is what you do for $7 then I'd love to see what you do for real money.

I guess there must be simply $1000's of info in your head that would be great for a monthly fee membership site.

I'd never even considered PD until this WSO, now I'm thinking what a goldmine and would love a PD site to bounce ideas and ask questions.

Thanks Jack.

Steve

[Zeal4Life]

Thank you Jack so much for your contribution to this site. Thank you for the software and videos.

I'm astonished to see VALUE for the price, frankly, I'd go ahead and call it a gift. Because, there's no telling how much CASH warriors will MILK from this resource - all thanks to you, Jack.

After reading some of your posts, I've concluded that you really have an incredible mind...

Look forward to your next post - even if its just a quick response.

Phil.

[Zeal4Life]

Jack,

Do you have a subscriber list? If so, please add me to it ... IMMEDIATELY.

Thanks,

Phil.

[ODA Marketing]

Originally Posted by wilson765

Jack please please start up a membership site so I can join. If this is what you do for $7 then I'd love to see what you do for real money.

I guess there must be simply $1000's of info in your head that would be great for a monthly fee membership site.

I'd never even considered PD until this WSO, now I'm thinking what a goldmine and would love a PD site to bounce ideas and ask questions.

Thanks Jack.

Steve

If he choose to do so, I am in with both feet.

If you think this is good, witch it really are, then you need to check out his thread and post at "The War Room"

This young man is a genius with his knowledge and his software / script creation in combination.

My wet dream is that he creates a desktop tool where I can put in a keyword phrase and get out a lot of public domain work I can take to this wso tool.

To those who want to be sure that their PD findings is legal to use, and still is sitting on the fence: Don't hesitate, buy this WSO.

Have a pleasant day.

[reapr]

All I can say is WOW!!!

Jack if my pacemaker melts down ... its your fault!

[Bob Montgomery]

Jack - I purchased for a quick look but couldn't quit watching the videos. It got my creative juices flowing - great information.

One quick tech question. On my screen, I can't seem to move the page up or down so I can't tell when the search is finished which is displayed at the bottom in your video. Any quick suggestions.

Thanks so much!