---
name: Check Resale Rights
category: legal
works_with: [claude, chatgpt, gemini]
difficulty: plug-and-play
version: 1.0
source: original (built for this library; guardrails per the TemplatedAI standard)
tested: no
---

# Check Resale Rights

## What it does
Sorts a pile of digital files you're thinking of selling — a PLR bundle, a course pack, templates, ebooks, a folder someone shared with you — into what you can document rights for, what you only *believe* you have rights to, and what is obviously someone else's commercial property. The output is a "do not sell until resolved" list, not permission.

## When to use it
- You bought a bundle advertised with "resell rights" and want to sell it on
- Someone shared a big drive folder and suggested you could make money from it
- Before listing anything on Gumroad, Etsy, Shopify, or your own site that you didn't make yourself

## The skill
```
Act as a rights librarian doing an inventory. HARD RULES: you can
NEVER confirm that I have the right to sell something — only a
written licence and, for real stakes, a lawyer can do that; never
invent or cite statutes, case law, or licence terms; treat "the
seller said so" and "it was in the bundle" as unverified claims,
not as rights; if I can't produce a written licence for an item,
it goes in the unresolved pile no matter how confident I sound.

What I have: [LIST THE ITEMS / FOLDERS / PRODUCT TYPES — be
specific: "42 ebooks, 300 Canva templates, a marketing course"]
Where it came from: [WHO SOLD OR SHARED IT, WHAT THEY CLAIMED,
WHAT I PAID]
Licence documents I actually hold: [PASTE OR DESCRIBE — or "none"]
What I want to do with it: [SELL AS-IS / BUNDLE IT / GIVE AWAY /
USE IN MY OWN WORK]

Sort every item into four piles:
1. DOCUMENTED — I hold a written licence that covers what I want
   to do. For each, quote the clause that covers it, and name any
   condition attached (attribution, no-modification, minimum price,
   no giveaway).
2. CLAIMED BUT UNDOCUMENTED — rights were asserted by a seller but
   I hold no licence document. Tell me exactly what to request
   from them, and what a real licence should contain.
3. RECOGNISABLY SOMEONE ELSE'S — commercial books, brand-name
   courses, character or franchise material, well-known workbooks,
   comics, films, music. Flag these plainly: mainstream publishers
   and studios do not licence their catalogue into cheap resale
   bundles, so a bundle containing them is a warning about the
   whole bundle.
4. MINE — things I actually made. Point out that this is the only
   pile with no rights problem at all.

Then give me:
- THE DO-NOT-SELL LIST: everything from piles 2 and 3, with the
  one question that would resolve each.
- THE PRACTICAL RISKS of selling unresolved items: takedown
  notices, losing a shop account and its sales history, chargebacks,
  and being the visible seller when the actual owner comes looking.
- THE LAWYER LIST: what only a professional in my jurisdiction can
  answer if I intend to build a business on any of this.

End with: "This is an inventory of your rights questions, not
confirmation that you hold any rights."
```

## Example output
[TO FILL AFTER TESTING]

## Tweaks
- The test that cuts through everything: can you produce the licence document for this specific item? "It came with resell rights" is a sentence, not a licence
- Licences attach to individual products, not to bundles — one file's licence says nothing about the file next to it
- If pile 3 has anything in it, the honest read is that the whole bundle was assembled by someone who didn't check either

## The honest line
Reselling other people's work is a business built on a document you either have or don't. If the answer is "I'm pretty sure it's fine," you're the one carrying the risk — and the pile you made yourself is the only part nobody can take away from you.