Do people respect PLR licenses?

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I have been buying a ton of PLR content lately and I have noticed something disturbing.

1. Most of it sucks from an english perspective.

2. People who buy PLR often don't respect the attached license. I have seen people pass rights when not permitted etc.

Do you think people respect PLR content for the most part or do you think once it gets out, it's the wild wild west from a licensing perspective?
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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    Without a doubt the wild. wild. west.
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  • Profile picture of the author YseUp
    Yes, the wild west.

    I think people are slowly starting to realise that PLR and bad quality articles are pretty much useless. Which is good news for people like me that can provide high quality written content.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tina Golden
      Originally Posted by YseUp View Post

      Yes, the wild west.

      I think people are slowly starting to realise that PLR and bad quality articles are pretty much useless. Which is good news for people like me that can provide high quality written content.
      Bad quality PLR is useless. High quality PLR is not. I provide high quality custom content but my PLR products are also high quality. This isn't an either/or situation; both have their place and both have value.

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    • Profile picture of the author Mohammad Afaq
      No they DON'T

      A couple of days ago, I created a huge thread on the forum with about 30 PLR products related to health niche market and I later found out that the person i bought them from didn't have the rights to give me the PLR to those products.
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    • Profile picture of the author thebitbotdotcom
      Originally Posted by YseUp View Post

      Yes, the wild west.

      I think people are slowly starting to realise that PLR and bad quality articles are pretty much useless. Which is good news for people like me that can provide high quality written content.
      From an SEO perspective they are almost always useless high quality or not. However, aside from SEO they have uses...

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  • Profile picture of the author Lance K
    Originally Posted by Brad Gosse View Post


    2. People who buy PLR often don't respect the attached license. I have seen people pass rights when not permitted etc.

    Do you think people respect PLR content for the most part or do you think once it gets out, it's the wild wild west from a licensing perspective?

    I've noticed the same thing. And peoples' lack of respect in regard to licenses has NOTHING to do with the quality of the PLR. It happens with top quality PLR as well.

    I've seen people who I respected buy some of the same PLR stuff that I have. So I know how the licenses read.

    One specifically says you can't offer it as a bonus. It can be bundled with other products, but isn't to be advertised as a bonus for another product. Yup...they're using it as a bonus.

    Another one clearly states it cannot be given away and cannot be used as a bonus. Just yesterday, I saw someone using it as a bonus for one of their new offers.

    Now in certain cases, I can understand confusion. Because, unfortunately, there are a lot of cases where the rights documents included with PLR material are not clear on the rights. Some people don't even include a rights document.

    But a lot of times (as with both examples above), people are either ignorant to what they purchased or blatantly disregard the licensing agreement they agreed to.

    IMO, it has a lot to do with the prices at which PLR materials are offered. For a few of reasons.
    1 - When you sell PLR at cheaper prices, you attract more buyers. And as with anything, the more people you're dealing with, the more likely it is that some of them are less than honorable.

    2 - If you sell PLR for $27, some people won't feel like they're devaluing it by giving it away for free (or selling it for $1 or whatever) as much as they would be if a license cost them $297. Also, with a more expensive license, the other licensees are more likely to help you police the others who bought rights.

    A $27 PLR product isn't worth the hassle of policing. Because it's probably in the hands of so many people that the only valid use for it is to make a significantly altered derivative work.
    3 - People probably feel pretty confident that you're not going to go to the effort and expense of trying to enforce a $27 license (or even a $47 or $97 license). It's a losing proposition for you. Evidently the honor system is a thing of the past for a lot of people.

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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    In my experience PLR is mostly nonsense to read and is passed around like candy bars.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Jordan
    Definitely a wild, wild west for both poor and good quality PLRs.
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  • Profile picture of the author GarryMSayer
    Brad,

    I think people have minimal respect for the Personal Use Only license.

    I recently bought a product in a niche I promote in, it had just landed on clickbank and the sales letter was top notch so I thought what the hell, let's see how much this dude knows. I like to work with my competitors not against them.

    So I opened up the .pdf and lo and behold almost 25% of this total product had been swiped from my very own product. They hadn't even bothered rewording it. And no, my product wasn't PLR.

    I contacted them and am stil awaiting a reply.

    To answer your question buddy... Re : Quality of Content... Selling PLR is a great way to make a lot of money... FAST!

    Which means that a lot of low life marketers will throw crap packages together just to make a quick buck.

    Personally I only buy PLR from people whose reputation I trust or, if its a WSO and I don't know the person, whose feedback I trust.

    In regard to people paying no attention to the license please reread opening sentences. Its not just PLR licenses that are abused and then ignored.

    Garry.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hanz
      People used to copy videotapes from the stores despite the warning on the video itself threatening fines and jail terms. People rip DVDs of movies, download Wii games from torrents, etc. Do people respect anything? Hardly!
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    • Profile picture of the author FuFu
      Originally Posted by GarryMSayer View Post

      Brad,

      I think people have minimal respect for the Personal Use Only license.

      I recently bought a product in a niche I promote in, it had just landed on clickbank and the sales letter was top notch so I thought what the hell, let's see how much this dude knows. I like to work with my competitors not against them.

      So I opened up the .pdf and lo and behold almost 25% of this total product had been swiped from my very own product. They hadn't even bothered rewording it. And no, my product wasn't PLR.

      I contacted them and am stil awaiting a reply.

      To answer your question buddy... Re : Quality of Content... Selling PLR is a great way to make a lot of money... FAST!

      Which means that a lot of low life marketers will throw crap packages together just to make a quick buck.

      Personally I only buy PLR from people whose reputation I trust or, if its a WSO and I don't know the person, whose feedback I trust.

      In regard to people paying no attention to the license please reread opening sentences. Its not just PLR licenses that are abused and then ignored.

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      • Profile picture of the author Ross Vegas
        You're crazy people don't actually use PLR, they just download it, right?

        I've sold and used it for many years. (incidentally, my next door neighbor is stupid rich from selling PLR juice products...i need to ask him how they do licensing)

        Anyway, until the contract is a little more substantial than a notepad file, I'm pretty sure lots of people ignore the "license".

        I'm not even sure all the terms are enforceable on some of that stuff.

        Probably just enough people respect it to make it work though.

        I been thinking of making hybrid PLR where some of the critical stuff is stored on my server where it can be terminated on a per user/infraction basis.

        I dunno, it's a fine line because too low of price increases chances of infraction, but too high a price can shrink the market a bit too much. Also too strict and people don't want or can't use it.

        I kind of think that the closer the plr is to "insert name - distribute" the more likely it will happen.

        If you leave a bit "undone" it's actually higher value plr, and less likely to be abused, or even recognized as PLR once it reaches the wild west.
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  • Hahaha I'm surprised you even ask this. I thought it was odvious that its the wild wild west.

    PLR gets rocked out pretty hard. At best its just useful for spinning or ideas. I once read one about getting a payday loan for a halloween costume. Ingenious.
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  • Profile picture of the author zinally
    PLR can be a wild wild west thingy but if you use it wisely as a platform to create your own product creation then it can be very useful because not all the information are rubbish. Importantly is to be extra selectives on choosing the right products. For me I only use PLR which have a good contents and URL it to my affiliates programs from the passage that have direct relationship.
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  • Profile picture of the author Big Al
    It's gotta be going straight to ... the Wild Wild West ...

    But then I'd imagine that muppets doing it are tight, spend no money and reluctant to invest in their business and probably have short lived internet marketing careers.

    I can't imagine (which is a dangerous assumption) people who disregard PLR licences opening up $97 memberhship sites and crushing it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jordan Kovats
    A wise man once told me, nobody waxes a rented car. Eventhough people pay for PLR stuff, I am going to assume, most people did not have to spend a lot of money on it. Having said that, the original creator, had hours, and hours, and test after test. They invested time, and some sweat. It was their baby. But once it got out, there was no feeling of ownership from the next guy, it was just another $16, or $49 they spent. There is pride in ownership, pride in creation.
    Taking ownership in something means something.
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