I literally, after about 2 years on iNat, just learned that there is different copyright for observation vs image!
I am a photographer, and pretty tech savvy, and had no idea that the image was not considered part of the observation - I don’t think anyone would assume them to be different.
Considering only the apparently “observation copyright” is easily seen, it needs far more clearly stated that it does NOT include the image/media uploaded into the observation.
If for legal reasons the media and the note of ‘i saw this here’ to be separate copyrights, both should be displayed in the same OBVIOUS location, with it well worded as to which is which.
If they can be made one in the same, that would also take away a ton of confusion, because I would think most users would think as I do - the entire observation is the observation - data & media both. We don’t call the media “supporting extras” its all a part of The Observation, so why would anyone think the copyright would work any differently?
As it is now (and keep in mind, everywhere on iNat when you talk about observation, you talk about this entire page! so saying here, that Observation is only the data not the media, is using the term Observation differently and it is ill-defined)
All you need to do, at minimum, is fix this line to say:
“Observation data (c) blablabla”
And add another line that says “Media in this Observation (c) etc etc”