[xenomachina]

> People pay big money for nice photos of products and then somebody just comes and takes it as their own

This raises an interesting question: if someone had a product on Amazon and had product photos they took, does Amazon still allow other sellers to use the same listing? In other words, does the seller agreement allow Amazon to reuse your (potentially expensive to produce) product photos on your competitor's product listing?

[mxvzr]

Yes they allow it. It often leads to "product listing hijacking": another seller sends a counterfeit/similar product to amazon using the UPC of your (private label) product. Product & review pages are then shared between all these different products. AFAIK the only way to combat this is purchasing the other product, document how if differs from your product, report it all to amazon and hope they act before too much damage is done to your product listing.