Dear Reader,
Welcome aboard the fourth issue of “Public Domain Treasure Hunter Magazine”, the only digital magazine exploring ingeniously creative and outrageously lucrative ways to profit from the public domain! This magazine is dedicated to exploring unique and little known ways to repackage and republish public domain material for fun and profit.
In this fourth issue, we will be discussing unique product ideas based around a Thanksgiving holiday theme (or as we call it around my house, “Turkey Day”). The holidays are always a great time for product sales and you’ll find that with a little creativity and imagination creating unique Thanksgiving themed products is a snap when you can pull all of the material that you need from the public domain.
Thanksgiving is a time of food, family, friends, and giving thanks for all of the blessings that we have received over the past year and you can easily create special products that reflect these feelings of warmth, joy, and nostalgia by borrowing material from the past.
Hundreds of thousands of public domain books, magazine articles, photographs, postcards, greeting cards and more have be produced that capture the magic of the holiday that is Thanksgiving – and you can use this material in the creation of your own new products that will serve to preserve and enhance the spirit of the special holiday season.
Traditionally, Thanksgiving is celebrated in the United States and Canada, but no matter where on the globe you live you should find something in this month’s issue that will spark new ideas for products that you can create using copyright-free public domain material.
Holiday inspired products in general not only sell well but are also extremely fun to create! There is so much holiday related material out there to choose from in the public domain that your choices are almost endless and you should have no problem coming up with the raw material to create some really great, unique holiday themed products.
For instance, there are millions of U.S. published magazines in the public domain. Many of these magazines produced content that was family-oriented, kid friendly, and focused on the simpler things in life like good food, good times, and just the little things that help us live a more enjoyable life.
And you know what? Every November, most of these magazines produced a Thanksgiving inspired issue chock full of quality content that you can use – recipes of all sorts for turkey dishes, pumpkin pies, dressings, etc. – ideas for making the most of the holiday season, all kinds of great stuff!
In fact, the cover for this months issue of “Public Domain Treasure Hunter” magazine was borrowed from the November 22nd 1919 issue of a public domain magazine called “Leslie’s Weekly”.
Let the Thanksgiving holiday inspire you to create new family-oriented products and you’ll find the public domain to be a huge resource of great Thanksgiving related material!
From our families to yours, we wish you a warm and joyful Thanksgiving holiday!
Warmly,
& 
Editors and Contributors, “Public Domain Treasure Hunter Magazine”
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My second “job” (the one I’m passionate about) is designing digital scrapbook kits.
I have a collection of a few hundred gorgeous greeting cards that were printed after 1923 (but before the 1960’s) that I would be thrilled to be able to use in my kits; however, I am unsure how to do the research to find out if they are in the public domain (other than your guidelines re: copyright notice/printing house/artist’s name). Is there a way to find out without having to pay someone to research every single card?
P.S. I’m so glad I signed up to your Treasure Hunter’s Survival Kit – I’ve learned enough already to have made it worth ten times the cost!
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Logan Reply:
August 6th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Hi Julie, do the postcards actually have copyright notices on them?
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JulieJ Reply:
August 7th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
I looked through some of my cards and the cards made by these companies have copyright notice: Hallmark, Greetings Inc., Forget-Me-Not and American Greeting.
The following companies include the company name and a number (usually 4 – 5 digits, sometimes a letter or 2) below the name: Coronation Collection, Doehla Fine Arts Card, Sunshine Line, Norcross, etc. There is no indication of copyright notice on these cards unless that number is somehow a copyright number? (no date, “c” or “copyright” is part of that number though)
And some of my cards don’t have a copyright notice or even the name of a company. This part of my collection only has numbers, i.e. 7118 and “Made in U.S.A.” below that number.
Thank you!
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Logan Reply:
August 7th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Hi Julie,
“I looked through some of my cards and the cards made by these companies have copyright notice: Hallmark, Greetings Inc., Forget-Me-Not and American Greeting.”
These cards were produced by big well-known companies. Many of them (or even all of them) could be in the Public Domain. Honestly, it would be tricky to figure out though. Even if they have years printed on them copyright research could be a challenge because you’d either have to have the actual Catalog of Copyright Entries (not the scanned stuff, the real thing) or the Library of Congress Card Catalog right at your fingertips. The big issue is that it’s difficult to tell just by looking at the card whether these companies actually owned the artwork or just licensed it from the actual copyright holder. Just for the sake of potential time invested, I would probably leave these alone. You could take them on individually, but I promise you it won’t be easy and many times you just won’t be able to come to a certain conclusion.
“The following companies include the company name and a number (usually 4 – 5 digits, sometimes a letter or 2) below the name: Coronation Collection, Doehla Fine Arts Card, Sunshine Line, Norcross, etc. There is no indication of copyright notice on these cards unless that number is somehow a copyright number? (no date, “c” or “copyright” is part of that number though)”
These numbers are most likely some sort of manufacturer identification number but in any case, they do not constitute a valid copyright notice. If you are sure they were produced before 1978, congratulations, they’re in the Public Domain as publication without valid copyright notice would place them immediately there within.
“And some of my cards don’t have a copyright notice or even the name of a company. This part of my collection only has numbers, i.e. 7118 and “Made in U.S.A.” below that number.”
These are in the Public Domain for the reasons described above. Hopefully, the last two scenarios you described account for the majority of your collection!
Thank you so much for this information Logan – it’s a HUGE help and very much appreciated! I’m sure close to half my cards fall into the later two categories (and are pre-’78). I’m having a “WOW” moment!
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Logan Reply:
August 8th, 2010 at 5:52 am
Cool! You win some you lose some, but it seems to me that maybe you won big this time all things considered.
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