I just recently learned that all rights reserved observations are not getting out to external platforms such as GBIF, where, presumably, a lot of the science that is done with iNat data will be going. I am also noticing more and more that a lot of users seem to have their observation copyrights set …

All rights reserved observations

earthknight February 18, 2021, 4:51am 2

It might be worth looking through this thread too:

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