What Are Your Distribution Rights?

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The following explains what you CAN and CAN'T do with the products you download from this website.

If the products has:

Personal Use Only Rights

You may use the product for your own personal use Only!  You may NOT sell or Giveaway the item.

Giveaway Rights

You are free to pass on the products at no cost to anyone. 

Usually the author is more interested in getting more exposure, making a name for themselves, getting their product viral or building a list if they are using giveaway rights. Many times these are lead generators for their other paid products and services as well.

Giveaway rights are good for the end user as long as the content is quality and helps those who use it.

Resell Rights

Generally, you are free to sell these products and you keep all the money yourself.

Good ones come with pre-written sales pages, product images and even thank you pages, and there’s usually a suggested retail price listed. You should note that some countries such as the US & the UK have price fixing laws. This is why licenses will say “Suggested Retail Price” in many cases. Make sure to read the terms and conditions set forth by the authors.

Once in a while, you’ll come across a product with resell rights that has a few other limitations, such as a required minimum retail price or certain things you aren’t allowed to do, like bundling them or giving them away free without permission. You should follow these terms out of respect for the author you bought the rights from.

Depending on the terms, you can sometimes give them to your customers or members if they paid for something else, such as another product or membership fee.

The biggest difference between resell rights and master resell rights is that with just resell rights you cannot sell the rights to others – you can only sell the product.

Master Resell Rights

When you have these rights to a product, depending on the terms – you could give it away, resell it, bundle it, create new information packages or include them in your own membership sites such as GuidesAreUs.Com.

You can even pass on or sell the resell rights to others, meaning that when you sell that product to someone, they can turn around and sell it to someone else.

Master resell rights usually cost more (and you can charge more when you sell the product) but they give the licensed owner more control.

Master resell rights do vary a little depending on the product creator. Also make sure you understand the difference between NON TRANSFERABLE Master Resell Rights and TRANSFERABLE Master Resell Rights. (See Below)

Non Transferable means exactly what the name implies – you cannot give/sell those rights to anyone – only you have those rights so they are more exclusive/high end and usually more expensive.

Transferable means you can pass on/sell those rights to others.



Private Label Resell Rights

Here’s where you can get really original! You usually get the source files to a product, so you can create a new product from it and call it your own.

You could edit the content, add to it, remove certain parts, create new images, redo the sales page and repackage the entire product.

You could even use the text content to create a niche website theme, online e-course, or break a large file into mini reports.

You could then take the product you redid and give it away, resell it, bundle it, create new information packages or include them in your own membership sites such as GuidesAreUs.Com.

Whatever you like within the license private label terms you have! Most of the time, you can even sell the resell rights to others.

That is, unless otherwise stated in the private label rights, you could sell that product along with the resell rights for a higher price — and that would allow your customer to sell it to someone else.

Private label rights are usually the most expensive form of rights to buy, but you get the most latitude in what you do with the product with full editing control and the ability to create new products from the source files.



Non Transferable Master Resell Rights

As mentioned above – this is important so am mentioning it again – Generally, these have the same rules as the master resell rights listed above except you cannot sell the master resell rights, only the basic resell rights and the product itself.

Non Transferable Private Label Rights

Generally, these have the same rules as the private label rights listed above except you cannot sell the private label rights, only the product itself or use the content to create new products.

Many times private label and source code are used together. Usually PLR is used for text content while source code is used for software programs.

Please take some time to absorb this information, if you have added knowledge on rights feel free to leave a comment to help everyone out as well. Resellers - make sure you always read the terms that come with each product very carefully. When in doubt try to contact the publisher directly with questions about the rights you have selling their product.

(Please Note:  Each Download Has Your (Exact) Resell Rights Included.)