There's a lot in here that's infuriating. > Maintaining this data for over 200,000 products is a costly endeavour and asking them to offer this for free would

There's a lot in here that's infuriating. > Maintaining this data for over 200,000 products is a costly endeavour and asking them to offer this for free would be a huge ask. No. Whoever (as someone pointed out, probably Brandbank, they supply most of the supermarkets with data so if it isn't them, then it's likely a scam) has already received full pay for the data they've supplied - if they're charging you again for the data, that's just greed (sorry, I mean "perfectly valid capitalism") - even at 14p/entry or whatever they're charging. Some people here have mentioned that facts can't be copyrighted - it reminds me of a problem in 2011 that the people distributing timezone data to a bunch of open source projects were sued because a 3rd party software house "owned" the rights to that data[1]. I don't know where that landed (timezones still work in linux, so I think they found a workaround) but most projects like this capitulate rather than risk the cost of court. But yes, the product descriptions and images may be copyrightable - certainly, Brandbank do all their imagery in-house, and any typos in the descriptions will be owned by them, because some person being paid peanuts - likely somewhere in the Philippines - is having to sit down with a photo of the can of Campbells soup, reading and re-typing the descriptions word for word. It's just... ugh. [1] https://www.wired.com/2011/10/time-zone-data-lawsuit/ https://www.wired.com/2011/10/time-zone-data-lawsuit/