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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 su
by 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 agoRight, 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 agoThis assumes that the supermarket took the photos - what I mean is the supermarket might buy those product photos under license.
- dendriti 4y agoYou 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 agoNo, 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/