[GET] Instarebrander - WordPress Plugin and Theme Rebrander

[basikz]

thanks for share. +REPPED

[Omarseo]

WebDev Wrote:This is from the sales page:

Enable YOU to Take Premium WP Themes and Plugins and ReBrand them as your own!

Enable You to Remove Any of The Original Plugin/Theme Left Over Wording

Allow you to Do What Ever You Like and Even Resell These Rebranded Plugins and Themes as your own for 100% of the profit!

Allow You To Do Integration Marketing by Adding an Extra Page To Your Plugin’s Or Theme’s Menu so that you can Cross Promote Other Products to your buyers!

This means you can even Add Your Affiliate Links with Banners to the rebranded plugins before you resell them

Finally, Everything above is Achieved in a completely safe and 100% Legal way!


It's legal ???

Going to give it a try ...

WebDev Wrote:There's a PDF included which sets out the case for legally stealing premium themes and plugins - because of the WordPress open license

However, he's chickened out and edited the PDF - the section that says legally steal premium plugins and themes from the following companies, is now blank!

Cosette Wrote:Everything that's for use 'with' Wordpress is under GPL as regards the code. It's a condition of writing for Wordpress that the whole thing is GPL, if you don't make your plugin/theme code GPL you're not authorised to offer it as a Wordpress-compatible product. Images you include in your theme/plugin might not be GPL, there could be copyright/licensing restrictions on them (and perhaps that's why the guy who wrote this thing withdrew his claim). CSS is a process to create an outcome, that's not copyrightable so no licensing is possible on that. You can charge for support etc, but the whole code licensing thing is BS, Wordpress code = GP. Strip out images and you're golden.

WebDev Wrote:The whole thing is dubious

It's like saying a book is not copyrightable because you used words that are freely available - or music is not copyrightable because you use freely available notes, or a PHP script is not copyrightable because the syntax is freely available

The argument's been used in copyright infringement legal cases and failed - arranging things in a unique manner makes it copyright

The vendors argument is that if something is made to work with wordpress - which is supplied under GPL, then anything you do to interface with wordpress must also be subject to GPL - except for things like copyright images

In any legal case over this, my money's on the guy suing for damages for copyright infringement

Cosette Wrote:US Copyright law is very specific that a process (a series of commands or actions which are intended to create an outcome that is replicatable) using 'non-creative' language, eg a recipe, a CSS file, a Photoshop action, etc CANNOT be copyrighted. You can confirm this on copyright dot gov.

Here's a good explanation of why:



I can confirm that I have actually taken legal advice on this, as I used to write Photoshop actions and sell them, and the issue came up once or twice. An action is simply a sequence of settings that produce a replicable outcome: a process. Just like CSS. There's no copyright possible on a process.

WebDev Wrote:That's very interesting

As the design of websites is essentially in the CSS, guess we can rip off the designs sold by theme vendors like themeforest based in the USA - don't even need to buy the theme - just save the preview to desktop and then copy and paste chunks of code from the .css file into a blank framework file

WebDe Wrote:I found this:
chipbennett.net/2010/07/20/wordpress-themes-gpl-and-copyright-case-law/


It's now looking like a key part of the open license that applies to WordPress is a condition that cannot be met (catch 22 condition) - so that would imply that themes and plugins cannot be regarded as being open source (open license condition invalid) - so I'm thinking that WordPress themes and plugins are copyright

It's going to take a legal case of someone suing for unlawful re-distribution of their WordPress theme or plugin to sort this mess out

[jamalexa]

I'd like to chime in on this discussion. I looked at some of the plugins at Wordpress.org. I also had a training about rebranding. If you look at the plugins that are available, I mean actually download and look at the source code, all of the plugins and themes found on Wordpress.org have the gpl or a form of the gpl license in them. However some of them have a pro version which is copyrighted by the creators. The idea is, whatever you take from Wordpress.org can be rebranded but you cannot take just any premium theme or pro plugin from someone's site and rebrand it. Just because it is used by Wordpress does not mean you can rebrand it. The GPL license only applies to things that come from Wordpress.org.

[webimp]

Yes but once the theme or plugin is nulled ypu can put your own license verification system in it. Cheers.

[jamalexa]

(03-20-2015 08:52 AM)webimp Wrote:  Yes but once the theme or plugin is nulled ypu can put your own license verification system in it. Cheers.

There's a plugin for that too.

[jayda2005]

Thank you! +++++