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Photo : ASTA Concept ( Shutterstock ) While the idea of “passive income” sounds great, the term is usually misleading, as establishing passive income streams often requires a lot of work. While most passive income schemes involve starting a business or sinking some capital into investments, there are also ways to leverage your creative and artistic impulses: If you’re passionate about music, photography , or shooting videos, for example, you can turn those passions into income— even if you’re not necessarily a professional— by selling your work to stock media sites. Stock sites have vast collections of media that people pay to license for use in their podcasts, videos, websites, book covers, video games—basically any product that uses music , sound effects, images, or video very likely uses some volume of stock media (see the photo above as an example). And every time a photo or piece of music is licensed from a stock site, there’s a creator somewhere getting paid—and that ...