A packshot is a still or moving close-up of a packaged product, used to portray the product in advertising.
A packshot is the term given to an image which portrays an object in its advertisement form. In other words, how a certain object would be portrayed in an advert or in the media as a still or moving image is known as its packshot.
A domain for the undiscerning enthusiast with centric intentions. These type of photography does transgress and infer on liberties of those that it is directed towards, hence the controversy.