Can I use data from the Amazon API in my App? [closed]

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I'm having a hard time finding information on this, but using the Amazon API (such as the ItemSearch api) provides you with data on Amazon products. In my case I am interested in books.

The Amazon API generates links to pictures of the books and details on the books.

I want to use this in my smartphone app, but Google appears to want proof that I am allowed to display that information in my app. They are saying that the book information and particularly book covers, could be copyrighted and I need to show proof I can use those in my app.

The Amazon API is free and they give you a key and what not for you to use.

Could anyone who knows something about this either enlighten me or better yet, provide a link to some sort of FAQs or documentation that tells me outright whether I can or cannot use data from the Amazon API in my web-app or smartphone app or whatever app?

I can't for the life of me find what I am looking for and Amazon is so big.

Cheers!

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INAL, but it was quite easy to find the relevant license agreement, where it says:

2. Enrollment

To begin the enrollment process, you must submit a complete and accurate enrollment form. In your enrollment form, you must describe the application you intend to develop and use with the Product Advertising API or on which you intend to display Product Advertising Content. We will evaluate your enrollment form and notify you of its acceptance or rejection. We may reject your enrollment form if we determine that your application is unsuitable. Unsuitable applications include those that:

In other words, it seems like you need to explicitly request the permission from Amazon to use that data in your application. If Amazon accepts your enrollment form and grants you a permission, you can display it to Google as the proof they require. If Amazon rejects your request you are not allowed to use their data in your application anyways.