Where Does Crowd-based Requirements Engineering End and Market Research Begin?

In recent years, market researchers have increasingly adopted automation, among other things to understand what users want from their product or service and how satisfied they are overall or with specific features or changes. Crowd-based Requirements Engineering (CrowdRE) is concerned with similar questions and employs requirements engineering (RE) methods to answer them. This suggests that the boundary between the fields of market research and CrowdRE has become blurred. This in turn raises the question: When is something still CrowdRE, and when has it become market research? This is an important question because it may require the community to rethink how industry might perceive CrowdRE in a wider context, and how future research should be framed. This problem statement paper explores this question along several real-world scenarios to trigger discussions in the community regarding possible solutions.