I’ve been in contact with Ingram Content data services to consume their book metadata api. I was amazed by how strict some of their consumption rules are again

I’ve been in contact with Ingram Content data services to consume their book metadata api. I was amazed by how strict some of their consumption rules are against, for instance, storing the metadata. This is data you’re paying for! The docs claim it’s to improve the end user experience but I imagine it’s primarily to protect their interests as data brokers. It really jars me how metadata so inconsequential, like the year a book in the commons was published, can be so strongly legally protected by a party that didn’t even initially produce that number meanwhile we have so little say or protections when it comes to the personal data we first-class produce. I’m becoming more and more of the opinion that people in the US are second class citizens behind corporations. /rant