hi Jason, for publishing options, do you pick “I own the copyright” if the book includes 15 original illustrations. author biography and glossary of words? Thanks so much!
Glad your brainstorming vid led me to this. Haven't thought about it for awhile but I have lots of ideas for creating digital editions with scholarly intros or annotation etx of pd stuff.
Ever since your last video that you did on the topic, I've had this on my mind. I've got a bunch I need to clear off my plate first, but I was thinking of doing something like the Children's Illustrated Classics that were around back in the 90s
Hi Jason, glad you are feeling better. Great video, I've been trying to find the prompt you used reference the understanding of a fourth grader? Can you help, I would love to adapt it to my needs? Kind regards
You mentioned that sweet spot where a book/story is not too common but also still in demand - how do you determine whether a book falls in this spot? How do you find books that fall in this spot?
@@TheNerdyNovelist thanks for the helpful response! you mentioned publisher rocket but that’s out of my budget sadly, is there any other process or software you can recommend?
Hi Jason, Great video and very time!y discussion! Do you market your public domain books with Amazon ads, email lists, and lots of reviews or do you just let the sell organically?
How I wish I had the Make It Modern function back when I was doing A level lit. Imagine how easy this tool would make books like James Joyce or Geoffrey Chaucer. Not to mention Camus and Moliere!
I am not watching this live. But I do have a question. Can you explain how the public domain works for audiobooks. I narrate and produce some children's public domain works for audiobooks.
If you narrate them that’s fine. What you can’t do is use someone else’s narration because that version is copyrighted to them unless stated otherwise.
great video! I am wondering, I have a public domain book that I want to publish with original illustrations, but it is already illustrated. Is it OK to remove the orignal illustrations and replace them with my own?
What about taking a very long book in the public domain in and creating a condensed version with modern English? The three rules you present in the video do not include this as an option but some brief online research seems to indicate it would be possible.
Yes that’s something you could do. And you wouldn’t need to mark it as public domain either. You could just sell it as your own version, since you e essentially completely rewritten it.
Hi Jason, just a quick question, I live in New Zealand, the copyright laws here are books are public domain 50years after authors death. Does this mean I can sell public domain books on KDP that are still in copyright elsewhere around the world?
@@TheNerdyNovelist thanks for that, it would have been a weird thing to be able to do. So, really to cover yourself, you should take the worst copyright law in all cases to cover yourself, otherwise you could end up in trouble if someone purchases the book in the us, that you’ve created under uk copyright law also.
With Books and Characters in PD like House at Pooh Corner, and Mickey Mouse you HAVE to be very very very careful to NOT infringe on Disney copyright, and make your characters NOT look like any MODERN versions of Disney's products. Same goes for Sherlock Holmes which is in public Domain but a recent MOVIE and TV show were made so you have to steer clear of anything related to the MODERN stories or depiction of those characters.
I am (slowly) creating an original concept movie that a lot of the story line is told in AI assisted video animation, speech, and animated actors. The entire creation is original thought, script, imagery, and characters. This movie, truncated, is so far around 6 hours long. I would also like to take my movie creation and compile it as a series of novels, before anyone else does. Some of the story loosely draws on actual known historical, modern, and imagined future events. As far as I can tell, however, nothing of this nature, or from this viewpoint has ever been created or imagined. The entire thought process and story line is my own, but the compilations, animations, environments, and interactions, in the movie will be heavily AI assisted. What do you think would be the best way of conveying the story lines in written text from video images, character motions, sound effects, in a way that the end reader can become immersed in the story without it sounding like a boring descriptive movie summary? The movie contains a lot of green screen actions translated by AI into specific characters, voices, and environments. The music used in the movie is specific, emotive, and synchronized to the action in the scenes. How would you convey that sound emotion into a text version of the story line, or is that impossible? (Music score is a large part of the movie presentation) Considering the size of the movie so far, ( it has several distinct plots and story lines that both start and end within their own segment of the overall story, with a few storyline plots and themes that extend throughout the entire compilation), the movie translated into text will be extremely large. The most intriguing thing about written test is that it relies on the readers own imagination and interpretation of the visual element. Sometimes for worse, but usually much better, without the restrictions that a forced visual construct would convey. How do you think would be the best way to reduce or truncate the written version of a movie where the reader is lead in the right direction of imagery and concept without losing the entire perspective of the narration?
Would rewriting a public domain work from a supporting character's perspective be a complete rewrite? Also, would it be 2 separate works if on we updated for modern times and the other was based on the original work?
If you find a story in the public domain but on audiobooks and I want to produce it as an animation on RUclips would it be an infringement on the audiobook, even though the original book is in the public domain. The audiobook is the same story, verbatim. I found the audiobook after a search as a read aloud story (original text/no changes) on a RUclips channel. My thought was to make the story an animated cartoon of the childrens book. I didnt find any aninations just the audiobook.
Probably unless it was produced via Librivox which are all public domain. Otherwise the person who produced the audiobook holds the copyright for that specific version of the text.
OHHH HOT DIGGITY.. I have been playing with this .. and have some lined up but hadn't pulled the trigger because I don't want to run afoul of Amazon rules.
Glad you are feeling better, glad you are back and glad you had an excellent vacation. Your videos are always SO healpful and you were missed!!
Excellent information! I'm beginning my journey into public domain books. Thank you for sharing!
hi Jason, for publishing options, do you pick “I own the copyright” if the book includes 15 original illustrations. author biography and glossary of words? Thanks so much!
I'm working with AI to translate the entire bible into Klingon. Thank you.
That’s one of the greatest sentences anyone has ever said to me.
@@TheNerdyNovelist qulqu'mo' tlhInganpu'!
This is AWESOME!!!
Make it so.
That is so funny. What a great gift that would be for a Christian Star Trek fan. 😂
Glad your brainstorming vid led me to this. Haven't thought about it for awhile but I have lots of ideas for creating digital editions with scholarly intros or annotation etx of pd stuff.
Ever since your last video that you did on the topic, I've had this on my mind. I've got a bunch I need to clear off my plate first, but I was thinking of doing something like the Children's Illustrated Classics that were around back in the 90s
Hi Jason, glad you are feeling better. Great video, I've been trying to find the prompt you used reference the understanding of a fourth grader? Can you help, I would love to adapt it to my needs? Kind regards
I don’t have one for that yet. Not public anyway. I’ll have one once I make my own storybook.
I had tons of issues before I moved onto whole food animal based. Changed my life.
This was incredibly helpful. Thank you so much!
You mentioned that sweet spot where a book/story is not too common but also still in demand - how do you determine whether a book falls in this spot? How do you find books that fall in this spot?
It’s something that comes from just looking at a lot of data. Eventually you get a sense for it.
@@TheNerdyNovelist thanks for the helpful response! you mentioned publisher rocket but that’s out of my budget sadly, is there any other process or software you can recommend?
Hi Jason, Great video and very time!y discussion! Do you market your public domain books with Amazon ads, email lists, and lots of reviews or do you just let the sell organically?
100% organic.
How I wish I had the Make It Modern function back when I was doing A level lit. Imagine how easy this tool would make books like James Joyce or Geoffrey Chaucer. Not to mention Camus and Moliere!
I am not watching this live. But I do have a question. Can you explain how the public domain works for audiobooks. I narrate and produce some children's public domain works for audiobooks.
If you narrate them that’s fine. What you can’t do is use someone else’s narration because that version is copyrighted to them unless stated otherwise.
Is there a way to change the cover after having published it on Amazon without losing your hard won reviews
Yes covers can be changed without losing reviews. I do it all the time when I need to tweak small things.
great video! I am wondering, I have a public domain book that I want to publish with original illustrations, but it is already illustrated. Is it OK to remove the orignal illustrations and replace them with my own?
Yep. You can do literally anything you want as long as it is public domain.
What about taking a very long book in the public domain in and creating a condensed version with modern English? The three rules you present in the video do not include this as an option but some brief online research seems to indicate it would be possible.
Yes that’s something you could do. And you wouldn’t need to mark it as public domain either. You could just sell it as your own version, since you e essentially completely rewritten it.
Hi Jason, just a quick question, I live in New Zealand, the copyright laws here are books are public domain 50years after authors death. Does this mean I can sell public domain books on KDP that are still in copyright elsewhere around the world?
You can only sell it in New Zealand. To sell it in the US you’d have to adhere to our copyright laws.
@@TheNerdyNovelist thanks for that, it would have been a weird thing to be able to do. So, really to cover yourself, you should take the worst copyright law in all cases to cover yourself, otherwise you could end up in trouble if someone purchases the book in the us, that you’ve created under uk copyright law also.
With Books and Characters in PD like House at Pooh Corner, and Mickey Mouse you HAVE to be very very very careful to NOT infringe on Disney copyright, and make your characters NOT look like any MODERN versions of Disney's products. Same goes for Sherlock Holmes which is in public Domain but a recent MOVIE and TV show were made so you have to steer clear of anything related to the MODERN stories or depiction of those characters.
Yeah. I touch on this a bit. Mentioned Thor and Loki are public domain. As long as you’re clearly using the source material and not Marvels version.
With the Hardy Boys (and Nancy Drew) they were rewritten in the 50s. The ones that came into public domain are not the versions most of us read.
Interesting. I’ll admit I haven’t even thought about the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew in years. But I loved them as a kid.
@@TheNerdyNovelist I was thinking of them when listening to this, I saw it was PD on Hardy Boys, great series
Thank you Jason
I am (slowly) creating an original concept movie that a lot of the story line is told in AI assisted video animation, speech, and animated actors. The entire creation is original thought, script, imagery, and characters. This movie, truncated, is so far around 6 hours long. I would also like to take my movie creation and compile it as a series of novels, before anyone else does. Some of the story loosely draws on actual known historical, modern, and imagined future events. As far as I can tell, however, nothing of this nature, or from this viewpoint has ever been created or imagined. The entire thought process and story line is my own, but the compilations, animations, environments, and interactions, in the movie will be heavily AI assisted.
What do you think would be the best way of conveying the story lines in written text from video images, character motions, sound effects, in a way that the end reader can become immersed in the story without it sounding like a boring descriptive movie summary? The movie contains a lot of green screen actions translated by AI into specific characters, voices, and environments.
The music used in the movie is specific, emotive, and synchronized to the action in the scenes. How would you convey that sound emotion into a text version of the story line, or is that impossible? (Music score is a large part of the movie presentation)
Considering the size of the movie so far, ( it has several distinct plots and story lines that both start and end within their own segment of the overall story, with a few storyline plots and themes that extend throughout the entire compilation), the movie translated into text will be extremely large.
The most intriguing thing about written test is that it relies on the readers own imagination and interpretation of the visual element. Sometimes for worse, but usually much better, without the restrictions that a forced visual construct would convey. How do you think would be the best way to reduce or truncate the written version of a movie where the reader is lead in the right direction of imagery and concept without losing the entire perspective of the narration?
Glad to hear your health issue has been resolved!
Me too!
Would rewriting a public domain work from a supporting character's perspective be a complete rewrite? Also, would it be 2 separate works if on we updated for modern times and the other was based on the original work?
Yeah that’s a complete rewrite.
@@TheNerdyNovelist thank you!
If you find a story in the public domain but on audiobooks and I want to produce it as an animation on RUclips would it be an infringement on the audiobook, even though the original book is in the public domain. The audiobook is the same story, verbatim. I found the audiobook after a search as a read aloud story (original text/no changes) on a RUclips channel. My thought was to make the story an animated cartoon of the childrens book. I didnt find any aninations just the audiobook.
Probably unless it was produced via Librivox which are all public domain. Otherwise the person who produced the audiobook holds the copyright for that specific version of the text.
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What about comic books? Can the same be used to translate them?
Yes but that would obviously be more work to manually take the translated text and place it in all the word bubbles.
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OHHH HOT DIGGITY.. I have been playing with this .. and have some lined up but hadn't pulled the trigger because I don't want to run afoul of Amazon rules.
Hopefully I made those rules clear.
Is Atticus a paid app
Yes but it’s a one time payment. No subscription.
Atticus is $150. Cheaper than Vellum but I would recommend Jutoh as a more budget friendly option.