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4. Projects that make money using free resources
4.1) Artlist is the world’s leading royalty-free music and film and television soundtrack subscription platform, providing high-quality music and sound effects for filmmakers, advertising companies, YouTubers, brands, etc. If you are a music producer, composer, beat producer or sound designer, you can earn long-term and stable passive income through Artlist.(20-2)
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4.2) Blender is a free, open source 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and VFX software that is widely used in game development, film production, product design, architectural visualization, NFT art, and other fields.(21-2)
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4.3) Epidemic Sound is one of the world’s leading royalty-free music platforms, specializing in providing high-quality music and sound effects for YouTubers, brands, advertising companies, and film and television producers. It adopts a subscription model, where users pay a monthly fee to use all music, while music creators receive income based on the number of plays and authorizations.(22-2)
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4.4) HathiTrust is a large digital library that provides access to all kinds of academic books, historical documents, and public domain publications from around the world. Although HathiTrust itself is a non-profit organization and cannot be used directly for commercialization, you can use its resources to make money indirectly through the reuse of public domain content, knowledge services, teaching courses, affiliate marketing, etc.(23-2)
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4.5) Internet Archive is one of the world’s largest free digital libraries, providing resources such as books, music, movies, software, website snapshots, etc. Although Internet Archive itself is a non-profit organization, if you are a content creator, digital marketer, researcher, publisher or affiliate marketer, you can use its resources to make money indirectly.(24-2)
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4.6) Lead Magnet, also known as potential customer magnet, is a strategy to attract potential users to leave their contact information through free resources. Common resources include e-books, free courses, template tools or discount codes. Its core purpose is to collect user email and other information and realize monetization through subsequent marketing.(25-2)
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4.7) LibriVox is a non-profit free audiobook platform that provides free audio versions of public domain books. Although LibriVox itself cannot be used to make money directly, you can use its free resources to make money indirectly through reselling public domain books, producing audiobooks, YouTube monetization, affiliate marketing, knowledge payment, etc., and establish a long-term and stable passive income.(26-2)
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4.8) Archive.org is a free and open digital resource platform that stores millions of e-books, audio, video, software, website archives, etc. Although Archive.org itself is a non-profit organization, you can make money by using its open resources, creating value-added services, selling digital products, affiliate marketing, freelancing, content creation, etc., to achieve long-term and stable income.(27-2)
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4.9) Pexels and Pixabay are two popular free stock photo platforms that provide high-quality copyright-free (CC0) images and videos, allowing users to freely download, modify, and use them commercially. Although these platforms themselves do not directly pay uploaders, you can use Pexels/Pixabay to make money in many ways, including freelancing, affiliate marketing, content creation, digital product sales, YouTube monetization, etc., to create a passive income system of $5,000+ per month!(28-2)
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4.10）Project Gutenberg is a free public domain book resource library that provides more than 60,000 e-books, including classic literature, history, philosophy, science fiction, etc. These books are free of copyright restrictions, which means you can freely use, modify, republish, and make money in many ways. (29-2）
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4.11）Stock Music refers to royalty-free music provided to video creators, advertising companies, game developers, podcast producers, etc. This type of music is widely used in YouTube videos, movies, advertisements, corporate videos, games, apps, etc., so it is a sustainable and profitable passive income model for music producers. (30-2）
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4.12）Wayback Machine is an Internet archiving tool provided by Archive.org that stores historical versions of billions of websites. You can use Wayback Machine to restore deleted websites, retrieve old content, discover expired domains, research SEO strategies, create digital products, etc., and earn a considerable income. (31-2）
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