Is it legal to buy used textbooks and resell them on my ecommerce site without getting sued by the original publishing companies?
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Fan-out diagram
The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
Is it legal to buy used textbooks and resell them on my ecommerce site without getting sued by the original publishing companies?
2 real searches · 1 real-search pass
Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
ChatGPT real searches (2)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 2 of 2 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.
Searches and sources
ChatGPT2 real searches · gpt-6
United States first sale doctrine resale used books 17 USC 109 Kirtsaeng Supreme Court official Google ↗
US Copyright Office first sale doctrine physical books resale copyright Google ↗
- 17 U.S.C. § 109 · govinfo.gov
- Congressional Research Service explanation · congress.gov
- U.S.C. Title 17 · govinfo.gov
- What is Copyright? · copyright.gov
- IV. First Sale Doctrine and Digital Transmissions · uspto.gov
- KIRTSAENG v. JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. | Supreme Court | US Law · law.cornell.edu
- Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | 568 U.S. 519 (2013) · supreme.justia.com
Queries
2 queries · click a column to sort
| Query / type | Search | Intent | Query class | Routing format | Cluster | Freq ↓ | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
United States first sale doctrine resale used books 17 USC 109 Kirtsaeng Supreme Court official OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
US Copyright Office first sale doctrine physical books resale copyright OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 |