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Unless there is a third party which is taking photos of all grocery products and then licensing that to the supermarkets, to avoid them all having to take their

by Closi 4y ago

Unless there is a third party which is taking photos of all grocery products and then licensing that to the supermarkets, to avoid them all having to take their own photos? I used to work for one of the major supermarkets and am aware that there are providers of product images, but don't know the specifics in enough detail.

mr_toad 4y ago
Taking a photo only gives you copyright over that photo, it doesn’t stop other people taking a similar photo. A lot of business try and claim copyright of a subject (like a tourist attraction) and try and prevent photography of it, but that’s legal BS in any jurisdiction I’ve heard of.
- michaelt 4y ago
  Right, but if you're making a price-comparison website with scraped data, you can't scrape the product image from a supermarket website legally. You could of course get images from some other source - but you need meticulous organisation when a single brand of tea might have 40, 80, 160, 240 and 600 bag packages.
  - Closi 4y ago
    This assumes that the supermarket took the photos - what I mean is the supermarket might buy those product photos under license.
  - dendriti 4y ago
    You absolutely can scrape a product image from a supermarket website legally. Why would you think otherwise? Whether you can use those images commercially is another matter entirely.
- Closi 4y ago
  No, I mean they take the actual photographs and then license them to the retailers. Plus they can also capture other product data in a consistent format etc. See here as an example: https://www.brandbank.com/content-licensing/ https://www.brandbank.com/content-licensing/ So for instance you could scrape a website that licenced images from brandbank above, and then fall foul of their copyright. Brandbank as an example does work with UK supermarkets, e.g. see below: https://www.brandbank.com/tag/sainsburys/ https://www.brandbank.com/tag/sainsburys/ https://www.brandbank.com/tesco-case-study/ https://www.brandbank.com/tesco-case-study/

by Closi 4y ago

mr_toad 4y ago

Taking a photo only gives you copyright over that photo, it doesn’t stop other people taking a similar photo. A lot of business try and claim copyright of a subject (like a tourist attraction) and try and prevent photography of it, but that’s legal BS in any jurisdiction I’ve heard of.

michaelt 4y ago
Right, but if you're making a price-comparison website with scraped data, you can't scrape the product image from a supermarket website legally. You could of course get images from some other source - but you need meticulous organisation when a single brand of tea might have 40, 80, 160, 240 and 600 bag packages.
- Closi 4y ago
  This assumes that the supermarket took the photos - what I mean is the supermarket might buy those product photos under license.
- dendriti 4y ago
  You absolutely can scrape a product image from a supermarket website legally. Why would you think otherwise? Whether you can use those images commercially is another matter entirely.
Closi 4y ago
No, I mean they take the actual photographs and then license them to the retailers. Plus they can also capture other product data in a consistent format etc. See here as an example: https://www.brandbank.com/content-licensing/ https://www.brandbank.com/content-licensing/ So for instance you could scrape a website that licenced images from brandbank above, and then fall foul of their copyright. Brandbank as an example does work with UK supermarkets, e.g. see below: https://www.brandbank.com/tag/sainsburys/ https://www.brandbank.com/tag/sainsburys/ https://www.brandbank.com/tesco-case-study/ https://www.brandbank.com/tesco-case-study/