I am a bit confused about how the licensing options in iNaturalist work. I have my settings set to “No License” for observation, photo and sound (“You retain full copyright over your content aside from those rights granted to iNat in our Terms of Service”). I took this to mean that the data from m…

The way I understand it, the licensing is for the photos themselves, not the data. It’s to protect people who may be uploading their livelihoods (ie, photographers, artists, etc) up by outlining what rights we want to give people who may want to use our photos, and how they can show them. No one can…

No, users can separately license the observations themselves, as well as photos and sounds.

@tiggrx - I’m curious is there a way to drill into the details of a record by clicking on it on the dot on the iRecord site ? I’ve certainly never created an account on there but just did so. I have very few records on iNaturalist from the UK; but as a check, searched for records for Eurasian Moorh…

[image] kueda: In the specific cases you cited, GBIF stays in sync with iNat on a weekly basis, so if you change your license choice for all your observations, GBIF should pick up on that in a week and remove any records from iNat it had under your previous license choice. I’m not sure how iReco…

Similar to Tiggrx’s original post: I’m also unclear on the scope of the “observation” license. I’m well aware of copyright concepts regarding photographs and audio recording. Does the Observation license apply solely to the date, time, coordinates, and optional descriptive text? Or to all of the ab…

[image] kueda: Yes, geoprivacy is one way to address this issue, but you should always be aware that partially disclosing location information usually means only partial privacy, and obscured coordinates on iNat are no exception. True, but true regardless of the license, right?

Yes, obscuration works the same for every copyright license type.

I tried looking into this a little while ago for a discussion of account deletions and what happens does/should happen to data if someone deletes their account. My key takeaways from reading through the legal sources I could find online were: as others have mentioned, you can’t really copyright f…

[image] cthawley: One implication of this is that it doesn’t seem like iNat would be legally required to remove observation data for users who leave the site/delete their accounts. They’ve always allowed for full deletion. Even of IDs which has been controversial. In terms of obscuring, geof…

@cmcheatle I’m curious is there a way to drill into the details of a record by clicking on it on the dot on the iRecord site ? I’ve certainly never created an account on there but just did so. I have very few records on iNaturalist from the UK; but as a check, searched for records for Eurasian Moo…

Can someone explain licensing to me please

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Can someone explain licensing to me please

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