Keep case is the general term for a number of packings. As I understand it, it's anything made out of plastic with the typical "click" closing. As the English Wikipedia says: "The first products to be released in keep cases were VHS tapes" - I myself would have only used it for BluRay and DVD :D
Amaray which you are probably familliar with is only the company name of probably the largest and most famous producer of such Keepcases. However, there are a number more and they all have slightly distinct features, e.g. Viva Elite's Amaray-like Casing has less round corners, is slightly thinner and has a different Spine mechanism, there is Scanavo who produces standard Amaray-like casings but also a special kind (
i've uploaded a comparisson photo here, recently), and Viva Elite has another casing named Eco, which is "ecological", i.e. they leave big plastic holes in the inside (see picture). There are even more but thos are the ones that I know of and can recognize by eye.
All of these are keep cases, which is why keep case is (or should be) more prominently used for these package type unless you are pretty sure or want to stress that a certain keep case is by Amaray.
Steelbook on the other hand is a trademark, so there is only one build type and only one company producing those (others have their own names such as Novobox, Futurepack, etc.)
EDIT: Here's the
Wikipedia article
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