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by shkkmo 2963 days ago
Nope.

First sale doctrine explicitly limits the restriction that the seller of a copyrightable work can place on the buyer.

It is illegal for you to sell me a book and say "you can't let any of your friends read this copy of this book" because that violates the first sale doctrine.

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I'm aware. But the fact that limits exist to copyright does not in any way show that this particular limit exists or is good.