Is it legal/Ethical if i let my outsourced workers see the Make money videos i Buy?

I have done the same thing and I believe that it is common practice within this industry to share information in that regard, especially when it benefits the industry on the whole.

However, as stated by Paul Myers and other experienced warriors...never take legal/ethical advice to heart on here. If it is a major concern, seek out professional advice.

In this instance I think you are more than ok...but don't take my word for it

Thanks Drew...
I know that i sounded mellow when i asked that question....But just wanted to know how the warriors would feel about it?

I think its legal here because you're the owner of those videos and until specifically mentioned (not to be shared) then i guess you're on the right path.

I think you'll be fine letting your outsourcers see the videos. I certainly would without a doubt if I bought them. It's not going to do anyone any harm watching a few internet marketing videos, hardly the same as copying and distributing illegal copies of windows. Many clickbank products also say it is fine to do this, just go ahead, as long as you don't start uploading them to share with whole world!

I wouldn't say it's unethical. As a general statement, product owners might state it's not allowed. But if you cornered one of them in a bar, they would tell you that they probably wouldn't care. Brad Fallon of stompernet told everyone at the conferences that they can share stompernet stuff with their staff. He even mentioned that he could give extra logins to staff.

If you wanted, you could ask the product owner. But honestly, that's the type of question where whoever answers support would probably say "Uh, why are you asking? Just do it"

It is both legal and ethical to let them watch the videos.

It is neither to send them a copy of the videos.

You need to find a way to do the first without the second.

If you really want to be legal and ethical, ask the product owner what he/she thinks about it.

Hi, Yes I agree that it is okay to share it with your workers. You need your workers to help you with your business and that is why you hired them . They need to be trained on something to help you lighten your work. So, if the videos could help you get the task done the easier way, go ahead and share with them the videos

If I buy a movie DVD and my gf watches it, It must be illegal and unethical right?

Hope I don't end up in the purgatory for that. :rolleyes:

I would say it is absolutely fine. If you had your own office you would be buying the courses for your office, you wouldn't be buying a number of copies of the courses so everyone in the office has a copy.

This is a similar scenario, however its just a virtual version. Obviously you need to make them aware that it is for their eyes only and they must not share the course with others, but its should be fine for them to view it.

I would say it is fine to do, in fact if its my products, I would encourage it.

Any big marketer
1. Wants you to succeed
2. Knows you dont do all the work

Funny, I dont think I have done it since I like creating my own training. If you dont feel
comfortable, ask the product creator.

Cheers,
Mukul

You're totally fine! Besides it's good that you sharing your resources with your outsourced workers It'll only do you good.

I am now curious what bigger info product marketers would have to say on this.

Again, if I was sharing it with your team, would be cool with me

Mukul

Huge question: When you say share are you talking about showing the videos in an office where your outsourced workers are physically there--or, are you talking about distributing the files to outsourced workers in different locations? --Mike

It's not legal - don't do it.

Buy second copies for your workers, many have done that.

It's both legal and ethical then when you get second copies for your workers.

-Shaun

Here is another version of some of the good answers already given above.

If you own ABC Inc. and bought a training product for the use of ABC Inc. (and not for your personal use) then anyone who works for ABC Inc. ought to be able to use/watch that product so long as it is used for the sake of ABC Inc.

And it doesn't even have to be an Inc. It can be an LLC, a Limited Partnership, a Sole Proprietorship, etc. Maybe even a collective of, say, internet marketers.

In the past, businesses in small towns would actually form an organization (an entirely separate legal entity) that bargained together to buy common raw materials from big suppliers. As a result they each individually got a much better price on those raw materials because by teaming up with each other as a bigger entity they gave themselves more scale and bargaining leverage.

But that's a different subject and no I am not trying to give ideas on how individual IMers can form a separate legal entity that can allow each individual member to save money on expensive ebooks. :p I'm not a lawyer, though.

If I buy a video and a friend watches it, there's no issue. If I burn him a copy to keep, that's piracy. Think about if it was your product that you were selling - would you want people distributing it to anyone and everyone they work with?

Of course, that's not to say that sharing videos like that isn't common practice throughout the IM industry...

Allowing access of any kind, including putting them on your site and letting them log in to view is wrong IMO.

However, you can create your own videos on how you want things done and train them that way and I think you'll be on the right track. I'm not saying copying the entire spiel, but you can tell Worker A to handle Task 1 like so, and Worker B to handle Task 2 this way.

Making your own how to videos is the best way to get things done your way anyway.

If the product doesn't address the issue in User Policy, you may need to just ask the person who created product.

That's my take.

If you buy a physical DVD then you can send it around to your employees for a watch, then why should it be different with downloaded courses?

If someone says its illegal, then let it be. Illegal is not equal to unethical. Common Sense.

Well as far as im concerned every single company I have worked with they have bought physical books/courses/training material and stored it in a library for everyone in the office to use.

I know Mike Filsaime purchases most courses out there and he has a library in his office for his staff to go through all the different courses and training materials.

If you have software then of course that would be different and would in most cases require 1 license per user, but when it comes to training materials I don't see the need to have more than 1 copy within the business.

I think it is okay if you are using the videos to show them what they will be doing for you.

If you will let your outsources just watch the video then that would be fine but to give them access or a copy of it and the possibility that they might make a copy, then there lies a problem for you.

Better yet, just have a document with notes about the video that you'd like to share than giving them.

If I have resale rights, I can sell a video to them for an arbitrary amount, such as $0.01

If I don't have resale rights, I can't see how this can be legal. Well, there is one exception, if you make the videos available on an internal site and implement reasonable technological means (I use S3 Media Vault, for example) and policy that prohibit them from saving the videos, then you should be OK. That's about the same as playing the video on your computer in your office for an employee who walks into your office.

You likely can't really be held responsible if the employee chooses to employ a video downloading tool to pirate the content if they were explicitly told not to do so.

I have some experience with licensing videos for multiple users.

I have a subscription to CBT Nuggets for my office. That costs me $1100/employee per year. Note that I can use 3 concurrent licenses for 30 employees as long as no more than 3 are using the license at the same time.
I also have a subsciption to CBT Nuggets end-user edition. That costs me $300/user per year.

The end-user subscription is specifically for employees of my customers. I offer unlimited training, so I prefer to have the users be educated to a certain level before they call us. We'd much rather teach them the fun advanced stuff!

However, before I subscribed to the end-user package, I called and confirmed with the company that it was legal.

All of these are concurrent usage floating licenses, and they are OK with me sharing use of licenses with non-employees. Not all companies permit that, so be sure to ask.

On the other hand, I have pretty large selection of cool videos to which I have resale rights on my membership site that my customers are welcome to view.

I am licensed for a certain number of concurrent users. I can't prevent the downloading of content as that's the responsibility of the company who licenses the content to me, but I have a policy in place to that effect.

Check your license.