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COPYRIGHTS ON BLOGS------How can they do that?

by warriortx
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Hello everyone i have been watching blog after blog being sold everywhere and all claim no resell rights can some explain how they say that and don't own wordpress or the theme?:confused:

I would love to know?
#blogshow #copyrights #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author warriortx
    Originally Posted by Ryan Kole View Post

    I do not quite understand, could you elaborate further?


    for example when someone sells a website 10 times then tells you not to resell it because it theres but its a wordpress site and theme.
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  • Profile picture of the author christopher jon
    for example when someone sells a website 10 times then tells you not to resell it because it theres but it a wordpress site and theme.
    Are you talking about the pre-built niche websites like this example?

    If so, wordpress by default is GPL but the custom graphics, css etc... copyright still belongs to the author.

    The author can sell the product as many times as he likes but that does not give the purchaser the right to resell the product as if it were PLR.

    It's similar to the usage license you get with software. You can install it on a single computer for personal use. You can't install it on your computer, you're buddies computer, burn 100 copies onto DVD and sell it at the flea market etc...

    I'm sure the intent is the author doesn't want people buying these theme packages and then turning around and selling a bunch of clones on flippa.
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    • Profile picture of the author warriortx
      Originally Posted by christopher jon View Post

      Are you talking about the pre-built niche websites like this example?

      If so, wordpress by default is GPL but the custom graphics, css etc... copyright still belongs to the author.

      The author can sell the product as many times as he likes but that does not give the purchaser the right to resell the product as if it were PLR.

      It's similar to the usage license you get with software. You can install it on a single computer for personal use. You can't install it on your computer, you're buddies computer, burn 100 copies onto DVD and sell it at the flea market etc...

      I'm sure the intent is the author doesn't want people buying these theme packages and then turning around and selling a bunch of clones on flippa.
      Yes but if I pay the $17 like in your example then domain it and add some content I should be able to sell it right?
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      • Profile picture of the author mr2monster
        Originally Posted by warriortx View Post

        Yes but if I pay the $17 like in your example then domain it and add some content I should be able to sell it right?
        Without knowing the specific licensing of the particular site you're talking about, it's impossible to answer.

        Basically, with the above example, my gut feeling is that yes, you could sell it once (as in sell ownership of the site and be done with it).

        You could NOT sell it as a PLR type site where you sold multiple copies, or kept the theme and rebuilt it and sold it again, etc. You would have to sell the entire thing completely.


        Copyright has to do with more than just the written word. It covers "created work". This encompasses imagery, art, sounds, code, photographs, design, etc. etc. etc.

        So you're basically bound by the license agreement on each sale.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by warriortx View Post

        Yes but if I pay the $17 like in your example then domain it and add some content I should be able to sell it right?
        Not necessarily, no.

        It depends whether what you have bought includes the right to re-sell.

        That's a matter between yourself and the person from whom you buy something (and sometimes relates to the rights he himself owns and can legally pass on to a subsequent purchaser: "nemo dat quod non habet", as the saying goes).

        If a condition of that purchase was that you're not allowed to re-sell it, then obviously you're not allowed to re-sell it.

        It's called "freedom of contract".
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  • Profile picture of the author Fenris Lloyd
    Originally Posted by warriortx View Post

    Yes but if I pay the $17 like in your example then domain it and add some content I should be able to sell it right?
    I think if what your talking about is buying the site and flipping it then that's not what there telling you not to do. Even if you bought it as a package, installed it on a site, and then sold it, as long as the new owner knows they can't sell copies and you don't keep a copy then you're most likely still ok.

    If you bought it though and then start making copies of it and selling them, they're telling you that isn't allowed.

    It's kind of like buying software, books, music, etc. You own the single unit of that product that you purchased. If you sell it or give it away and no longer retain any ownership of it yourself, then no one is ever going to care.

    If on the other hand you make copies of it and then sell those copies then you're violating the copyrights.

    Even if the product is based on an OpenSource product, expired copyright works or a PLR product, any additional content added creates what's called a "derivative work" which gets to have it's own copyright. In that case you're expected to comply with the copyright requirements of both the original content (WP, themes, and plugins) and also the new content (articles, posts, graphics, etc.)

    Also depending on how things are worded when you buy it, you might actually only own a license for use, rather than the actual product. In that case you have even less rights, and potentially might not be allowed to transfer ownership at all.

    Another thing to consider if anyone will ever catch you or actually pursue a violation if they do, but that's more of an ethical decision you have to make yourself. If you're just wondering about the legality of the issue then the above explanation pretty much covers it.
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesHughes
    Is complete rubbsh unless the copyright is genuine
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