Having two or more licenses per observation (the observation itself and one for each separate media item), can be really confusing. The display and editing of these licenses should be improved. There have been several cases where the user was requested to update their photo license (e.g. for Wikiped…

I think I figured it out. There are three boxes to check in the Account Settings, in addition to changing the license settings, if you want the license changes to apply to existing observations. I must not have checked those before saving the first time. I re-did it now and the example photo now ref…

[image] bouteloua: Yeah, I feel like sometimes it hasn’t “taken”/completely saved when I have updated my photo licensing settings from the main account settings page. If you are choosing the option to apply the license to all of your observations, it will take a while for iNat to churn throug…

I’m glad this feature request was brought up by bouteloua. Until I started reading this thread I had no idea that I had made the changes only to future observations, which was not what I had intended. And I appreciate the redesign plans. Based upon my mistake I would request that the “existing” or “…

I’m gonna close this and work on a functional spec for the team next week.

idk where we’re at on open vs. closed feature requests, but thought I’d drop in this graphic that I thought was pretty well done: https://asapbio.org/licensing-faq/licensing-diagram-2018-10-04

[image] tonyrebelo: If you post a picture (or observation) by one licence, you cannot then later make it more restrictive. Legally that would open up a huge can of worms. [image] cmcheatle: You can change a license of your material anytime you want, either stricter or looser, it is just n…

Just chiming in that I was genuinely fooled by the observation license vs. photo license information presentation here on iNat. I used an all rights reserved © photo in an iNat journal entry (with attribution and a link-back, thinking that it was released under a (CC) license), not realizing that th…

I ran into this issue. I have been using a Wikimedia commons user-script that allows reuse of iNaturalist on commons and by extension on Wikipedia. This script only imports Wikimedia compatible licenses (CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA), yet this week I was confronted with a copyright violation on one of the …

I think this infographic is a good idea, but I think the summary of the “noncommercial” (NC) clause is grossly misleading. I would strongly urge to add a note that explains that NC clauses also prohibit the inclusion of the material in any copyleft or open-source work (such as combining it with the…

Improve viewing & editing copyright information on observations

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tiwane April 18, 2019, 5:32pm 23

The spec has been written and shared, but I think we’re focusing on CNC for now. Thanks @bouteloua!

Edit license screen doesn't work

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