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Help for PLR rights terms & conditions

by merjo
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Hello experts,
I need your expert advise, I am a newbie to this making money online biz as well in this forum I barely started then I came across PLR and thinking I want to share it with new opt ins but I found these rules on PLR quite contradicting, here are some of it:

[YES] Can be used for personal use
[YES] Can be given to list subscribers
[YES] Can be packaged with other products
[YES] Can be offered as a bonus
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[NO] Cannot give away PLR Rights
[NO] Cannot give away for Free
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If it's OK to give to list of subscribers, what does it mean by "Cannot give away for Free" ?

Please advise

Thank you guys!

Regards All
#conditions #plr #rights #terms
  • Profile picture of the author stoltingmediagroup
    Most PLR terms that I have seen make no sense whatsoever. Your case is one of them, as it is left up to your interpretation, which should never happen. It might be that you are allowed to give away the product when someone subscribes, but not to give away the product for free to everyone. Which in itself makes no sense.

    I Usually end up contacting the vendor when I am unsure, and I suggest you do the same. Asking for someone else other than the vendor to interpret the terms, may not be the best thing to do.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alice12345
    Yeah, its not making any sense here. Maybe you could not give it as free to get freebies optin. Like free wso here!
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    There should be a standard for all rights that all must adhere to. Not sure why it has to be so complicated at times.
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    • Profile picture of the author john01a
      Originally Posted by dougb View Post

      There should be a standard for all rights that all must adhere to. Not sure why it has to be so complicated at times.
      If you're talking about a standard PLR license, that's unlikely to happen. Each PLR content provider decides what rights (in the form of the terms of the PLR license) they want to give PLR buyers of their PLR content.

      Certain PLR content providers may have more open terms, and others, more restrictive. But, their may be very specific reasons behind the terms of the license.

      A standard license would mean that all PLR content providers would have to agree to license their PLR content under the exact same terms, which is unlikely to happen.

      Even if you look at other types of licensed content, there isn't a standard license. There isn't a standard Royalty Free music license, or a standard stock photography license across Royalty Free Music sites and Stock Photography sites.

      The only type of standard license for licensed content that I can think of, is for creative commons content... and even then, there is a fair amount of variation and flexibility.
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  • Profile picture of the author merjo
    @dougb, @Alice12345, and @stoltingmediagroup -- thanks much guys. exactly confusing indeed. Agree with dougb to have a kind of standardizations for PLRs this could ease out some burdens for new starters like me I guess. I'll try stoltingmediagroup's advise to personally contact the owner for info and hopefully get a better insight. I really appreciate your help guys. Good luck to all.
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  • Profile picture of the author madhushan
    It just means that you cannot give it away for free, so you should get something in return. You can use it to get signups, as in that case, you get email addresses in return... so it is not free. You can also add it as a bonus.

    I have been selling PLR materials for almost a year and a half now, and in my experience, this is how I would interpret it.
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    • Profile picture of the author merjo
      Thanks @madhushan. Sorry I'm a bit slow, so by giving it as a bonus in return for an email sign-up would make that legal, meaning I can distribute it freely as long as I am getting something in return which in this case my prospects emails? So "free" means just simply giving it away for nothing is it? How would the PLR owner or site for that matter know what I did with the PLR article? just curious I guess. Really appreciate your inputs
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  • Profile picture of the author Humbee360
    Confusing, LOL, It can be entertaining to read through Product License terms, I think there is a huge amount of confusion among buyers and sellers alike, Some sellers forget that buyers have rights too. It is important to remember that just because someone puts words into a product does not mean that those words are legal or even binding.

    (not a lawyer, just have some experience in a legal office)

    That license actually has a number of flaws, as other posters have mentioned.

    You could interpret it this way, in receiving an email address the buyer has provided "consideration" in exchange for the product, which has a value, i.e. an email address is considered payment.

    So you should not post it online for anyone to come and get it without providing some kind of consideration in exchange for the product.

    PLR for the most part is more than often outsourced, Unedited, not proofed, usually is good in the beginning and by the end resembles a mumbling senile old man.
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    • Profile picture of the author merjo
      @Humbee360 so true, it is very confusing , the fact that it stated it's free and at the same time it isn't free at some point made it more mind boggling. If by spreading PLR among the internet marketers in return for an op-in in a way to make it legally "OK" for public use then I guess there isn't much a problem in it. Maybe a revision to the current "general" rules for the use of PLR is just needed. The problem I think is that, most of the rules applied to the use of these PLRs are generic and are copied over by other PLR authors out there. And since "standardizing" these rules are possibly unlikely as pointed out by @john01a, made it more conflicting for users and newbies which are btw left to interpret these sets of rules on their own. Hopefully, some sort of clear and defined rules will be set in the future to clear out some doubts about it regarding the distribution and/or use of the PLR articles. Although other rules mentioned are fine except for this part. Thanks again guys really appreciate the thoughts. Btw, has any of you ever tried to give it away? (PLR articles) any issues you've encountered so far?
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