>Nobody said its a 'violation of first sale doctrine' These seem to be saying that: > I’m gonna have an update for you later today on my continuing communicat

>Nobody said its a 'violation of first sale doctrine' These seem to be saying that: > I’m gonna have an update for you later today on my continuing communications with @Shopify. They are now asking for purchase receipts to sell Star Wars books on their platform. This is both illegal and nonsensical. https://twitter.com/mattzollerseitz/status/1542533549689131009 https://twitter.com/mattzollerseitz/status/15425335496891310... >As detailed higher up in this thread, neither Shopify nor anyone has a legal right to demand documentation in order to sell, resell, give away, or otherwise dispose of published material, according to the First Sale Doctrine. Big thanks to Twitter mutuals for hipping me to this. https://twitter.com/mattzollerseitz/status/1545542804860014599 https://twitter.com/mattzollerseitz/status/15455428048600145... >I responded with an email restating that the First Sale Doctrine makes such a request both nonsensical and illegal, and asked a few more questions. https://twitter.com/mattzollerseitz/status/1545542818424360960 https://twitter.com/mattzollerseitz/status/15455428184243609... >"All of this was not only unnecessary but illegal as covered by the First Sale Doctrine." https://twitter.com/mattzollerseitz/status/1545545224235130880 https://twitter.com/mattzollerseitz/status/15455452242351308... I agree with you that what Shopify is doing is bad and doesn't make sense. Freezing or taking money might be illegal. But I would think it's not illegal for Shopify to ban an account due to some system flagging it as suspicious, because I assume the Shopify TOS say they can do that.