I just noticed that some flags that have previously been cleared for copyright infringement and had the picture restored are now back to removing the image. I know I flagged these in error years ago (at the time, I legitimately thought they were infringements, but curators determined they weren’t),…

It’s still showing “media removed” on @cmcheatle ’s example, as well as many other resolved (aka, not infringement) copyright flags. :frowning_face: And I don’t see it logged in github (maybe I’m using the wrong filters ? I’m looking at the bug label with “copyright” as a search term, ignoring ope…

This observation of : Anderson’s Holly Fern had been flagged for copyright issue, as the identic image had been published at summitpost.org After clearing the fact, that the uploading user is owner of the image, the flagging was resolved by curator Christopher. Unfortunately the original iNat phot…

This is a known bug, can @forum_moderators please merge into my original bug reports. I don’t think curators can fix it, if it is “resolved” there is no other then we can’t fix the flag any other way. There is no delete function on flags. Staff might be able to do something. Alternatively if the us…

I couldn’t find a report from you, but this is also the same bug.

I thought I had documented it originally, in fact my text suggests I did, but maybe they got merged too or just copied over and mine deleted.

The observation @erwin_pteridophilos gave should be fixed now, as well as a bunch of others. We think the bug that caused this has been fixed, but the photos that had already been affected by it were not updated. Any other examples?

I’ll keep an eye out. I haven’t gone through all the pages of resolved copyright flags , but so far the only ones still missing seem to be ones that were later flagged again.

[Screenshot_20200809-120903_Chrome] Ok, I just went through every resolved copyright infringement flag on content type photo where the resolution wasn’t deleting the photo, and so far, unless they were flagged again, they are all back (including those previously affected) . Thanks, I’ll mark your …

Re-opening this because there still seems to be an issue with some externally sourced images. See https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/502656

Media still hidden on images cleared of Copyright infringement flag

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FYI: I tried toggling a DQA criterion off/in to trigger reindexing, as was done to resolve the issue in another bug report, but it didn’t work for my examples.

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Media still hidden on images cleared of Copyright infringement flag

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