I am avidly reusing content on Wikipedia and its sister projects. While doing so in good faith and respecting the underlying licenses I was recently confronted with various notifications of copyright violations. These notifications come with rather strong warnings that those copyright violations are…

I’d suggest you make this a Feature Request.

A related discussion here … https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/license-changes-that-update-remove-a-permissive-license-should-be-prohibited-or-at-least-generate-a-warning/14894

List a history of licence changes on an iNaturalist observation

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Topic		Replies	Views
Improve viewing & editing copyright information on observations Feature Requests web	32	3540	June 4, 2025
If the photo license is changed retroactively then the old license should still be shown somewhere Feature Requests	7	294	March 25, 2025
Edit license screen doesn't work Bug Reports web	8	1090	November 18, 2020
Change photo and observation license(s) in the apps Feature Requests android-app , mobile-app	5	919	August 13, 2025
Can someone explain licensing to me please General question	27	7148	May 3, 2019

List a history of licence changes on an iNaturalist observation

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