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Before you start your search for public domain works that you can use to create products, you need to have a clear objective in mind. In other words, just knowing that you want to use a public domain work to create your own product isn’t enough. You need to know what type of work it is that you want to create, and what public domain work will fill your need.

It is never a good idea to go into anything blindly. You will of course want to conduct market research, just as you would with any other type of product that you wanted to create. Is there a market for your idea?

A good way to find out if there is a market is to go to a search engine and type in keywords that would be used to search for your potential product. Pay close attention to the sponsored ads. Also go to your local bookstore and look at magazines that relate to your topic, again paying close attention to the ads. If you go to your public library, you can see back issues as well. Have certain advertisers purchased advertising space in previous issues as well? When dollars are being spent on advertising consistently, you can bet that there is a market.

Once you know there is a market for your idea, the next step is to determine how you want to deliver your product. Will it be a physical product such as a DVD, a CD, or a printed book or manual? Will it be a digital product, such as an E-Book? You need to determine this, because the format that the public domain work you choose may matter a great deal to you.

Now that you know what you want to create, and what format you want to deliver your product in to your customers, it will be easier to determine exactly what public domain material you are seeking – and of course knowing that will lead you to the right source to find it!

Just knowing where to find public domain works does not necessarily make it an easy task. Consider the fact that there are literally millions – if not trillions – of works that are in the public domain. Unless you know what you are looking for, and where to look for it, it could be like searching for a needle in a haystack…and sometimes it is like that even if you do know what you are looking for and where to look!

You may think that you can go to one of the various public domain resources and just browse to find a public domain work that you can use to make a profit. The chances of this happening in this way are about as good as you winning the next lottery drawing without buying a ticket. The amount of sources and materials at those sources is incredibly overwhelming.

First, you need a concrete idea. You need to know what it is that you want to accomplish and what type of work will accomplish it. Then, you must determine the best source for finding such a work. Then, you must search at that source. If you know the exact work that you are looking for, you will of course find what you are looking for faster.

You may also need to consider how much or what type of editing you plan to do to a work before you begin your search. The format that the work is in may become an issue, unless it can easily be converted to a format that is suitable for editing purposes.

You may have to download and look at many public domain works before you find what you are looking for. The good news is that your search for a suitable work that is in the public domain will most likely be the hardest part of creating your own product – once you have it, the majority of the work has been done!

You may not plan on becoming a famous movie director, but you still have a use for public domain films, broadcasts, commercials, and sound bites. These can be used on websites, or to create CD’s or DVD’s that you can sell.

By far, Buyout Footage at http://www.buyoutfootage.com/pages/pd.html is one of the hottest places to obtain film. There is also great film that you can use at http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger and also at The Library of Congress at
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/.

At the Live Music Archive at Archive.org, which is located at http://www.archive.org/details/etree you can find films of live music shows. You can also find free footage at the UCLA Film and Television Archive which is located at http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/.

While these are excellent sources for finding public domain films, it is important to realize that you must purchase the work from most of these sources, with the exception of the public domain works found at Archive.org. However, the fee may be well worth it depending on what you intend to do with the film that you want.

There are various ways that you can use old film, broadcasts, and commercials for financial gain. You may want to use the entire work, or just use parts of it for your product. You could even make a collection of old commercials for an informative marketing course!

Again, you need to be aware of the format that the film you want is delivered in, and make sure that you have the appropriate software or equipment to manipulate the film to turn it into the product that you want it to be, if editing it is what you have in mind, or to transfer it to the medium that you want it to be on if you just want to change the delivery format. For instance, you may want to change something that is on video tape to DVD.