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Originally Posted by H-P
Crich70,
Sorry with my english, i understand your reply but that not the real subject. DP isn't the God law (my point of view). Is a company can sell content done for free in USA. Is a company can be in competition in the business with an other one which give moneys to his workers. Don't you have commerce laws, which give some rules.
Is free works done by volunteers, can be reselled by a company without infringements of commerce laws. Even if a wesite say do what you want with it ! That not a copyright violation problem but....
So you want to make money, you want to be a publisher based on dp....Work baby and you should work hard, very hard to earn some dollars.
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My expertise is with US government publications, which are often free and usually in the public domain. You can resell these because they are in the public domain. If a work is done by volunteers and distributed for free, the authors retain copyright unless they release it under a Creative Commons License or the like--and the Creative Commons License often has restrictions for reselling. You can sell free (or priced!) works that are copyrighted with the copyright holder's permission (I've obtained those, btw. Depending on what it is and why you're reselling it, some people may give permission).
The best way to make a profit on reselling free/public domain/copyright licensed work is to add value of some sort whether it be annotations, illustrations, or using the work as a part of a larger curated collection.