Nicely put. Your definitions are clear and concise. And your admonition to read the license was a good addition. I’d like to add a couple of things to this discussion.

One point is WHY it is so important to read the license. The reason is that while you did an excellent job defining the common understanding of these terms – nobody producing a resale product has to abide by them – they can and do grant whatever rights they want to.

What this means to those of us who buy and use and/or resell these products is we need to understand and comply with the rights granted in that product rather than assume that just because it says “Private Resale Rights” that we can do whatever we want with it.

Recently, I’ve seen PLR titles with very restrictive rights attached. If I just treated them as though I could do what I want, I could’ve easily been in violation.

I’ve seen some Master Resale Rights products with very liberal rights attached. You just don’t know until you open the license agreement.

In answer to Todd about having new graphics created for a mrr product, I personally, have never seen a license restricting this. However, unless you are granted the right to edit the product itself, you’ll probably be stuck with the same title.

As far as Rob’s advice to always by PLR when possible, I won’t argue with that but I will say that the more restrictive a product is, the more value it tends to carry. Like items in the public domain, most PLR products can be given away for free. How much value is there in something that is freely available for little or nothing?

One “undisclosed” right that comes with most any resale product is the right to limit the rights YOU convey. This if you have “Master Resale Rights” you do NOT have to pass those rights along (usually).

Sorry for rambling on for so long. Hope someone finds this useful.

Andy Havens

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I truly understand that there are lots of free sites and material that are really genuine in nature and have value. Sometimes we all have to weed weed out the surly ones, but i appreciate and respect the fact, that there are indeed people who really want to help and for that I’m grateful – you included!

Thanks again Lynn,
Mark

I understand your skepticism. You’re referring to Resell Rights For Newbies at http://www.clicknewz.com/free-tutorial.htm . When you click the Join button, it simply takes you to the free registration pages where you sign up for the free tutorials & downloads.

Anything else they offer you in the future in the way of resources or products is of course optional.

There are actually quite a few free training sites out there using this model now: 30 Day Challenge, Black Ink Project, MiniSite Profits, etc. There is A LOT of great free material available to you at these sites – anything else being totally optional.

Regarding your article about the differences regarding the PLRs, MRRs and RRs…

I really appreciate you putting it into comprehensive terminology, as so many other people explain it, in a manner that is a little mumbo-jumbo, so for that, I sincerely thank you

However, when I clicked on your Resell rights for newbies link and was brought to the site, i read the entire sales page, but I would like to know what’s the ‘catch’?

I noticed that they say they will be giving away all the info, plus dvds for free (right then i knew something wasn’t right), then i saw a button that tells the viewer to ‘Join Now’

So that makes me wonder if it’s a membership site?…by seeing the word – ‘join’.

I could have easily continued on to further find out, but I just didn’t want to give out my email and possibly be spammed later, hence my inquiry to you first.

Please know Lynn, that I’m not suggesting these people are scam artists in any way, as I wouldn’t think you would be referring people to them through your link if they were. I know you have too much integrity. I would just like to respectfully ask you what they are all about before i give them my email?

I know they won’t be givng away all those dvds and info for absoutely free – there must be something else?

Thanks so much for listening Lynn and i really appreciate your time with replying to my inquiry.

Have a great week ahead!

Regards,
Mark

I have never heard of any rules for a minimum membership fee , so you might want to check that again, there a tons of membership sites the are much lower than 17 bucks.

Simply put, a product with mrr allows you to sell the product, and sell the resale rights of that product.
You will find that the licensing agreement will vary with different products. Thats why you should always read the license before you distribute it.
In your case the product creator has allowed the product to be added to membership sites, however you are not allowed to bundle it with other products as a bonus.
My guess is you can only sell it, probably for no less than a specified price, and include it in a paid membership site. usually the membership fee can be now lower than $17 per month.

Product creators create these rules to preserve the value of the product. Another thing you will often see in mrr licenses is that you cannot sell it on ebay. The sad fact is that people do break the rules, and these products can end up on ebay selling for a penny. This is very unfair, making it difficult for honest internet marketers to profit. Ebay is clamping down on information products. I imagine that eventually you will only be able to sell these digital products on ebay by offering them on c.d.’s that are mailed to the customer.

While I am on the subject of resale rights another type of licensing is private label rights. If you get the chance always go for plr because you can use the product any way you want. You can give it away for free to attract subscribers to your list, use it as content online, change it in anyway you want, and even put your name on it as the author.

Hope this clears up the confusion that comes with resale rights products.

Rob