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HOW TO: Use Public Domain Content

Source: Mashable!

Nov 02, 2009

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Brandon Mendelson is the co-author of a public domain mash-up, Dracula And Kittens. Follow @BJMendelson on Twitter for updates on this and other projects.

Considered to be one of the worst films ever made, Santa Claus Conquers The Martians is available to post, in its entirety, on your website. You could even put the movie out in the form of a smartphone app and sell it. I don’t know why you would want to inflict that kind of suffering on people, but there is little to stop you. Santa Claus Conquers The Martians is in the public domain, which means that you can do anything you want with it.

And using public domain content as the basis for mashups is a growing trend, and one that is yielding a lot of great, original content. Let’s take a look at how public domain material is being re-purposed on the web and in print.

5 Killer Public Domain Mashups

1. Pride And Prejudice And Zombies. Maybe you’re not feeling overly ambitious and don’t want to create an entire universe based on someone else’s mythology. That’s fine. You can always just throw in zombies, ninjas, a

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