Wondering what rules there are about multiple people observing the same individual and submitting the EXACT same photos. It seems like this falsely inflates the observation count and would cause copyright issues regarding who took and owns the photographs. I’ve seen that there has been some previous…

see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/lots-of-duplicate-photos-one-place-different-people-in-washington-county-oregon/11070

If this happens, it is most likely because there is a group of people(typically college students) in a class together that use the instructor’s photos. For this, you can ask them to add their own photos of the organism, or ask them to merge or delete the observations. If multiple people are posting …

I’ve learned that this happens mostly with classes and that the good news is that it will end soon. Probably best to ignore it unless there’s evidence of malicious intent.

If it’s isolated, I just try to educate (ask them to please not do this unless you have specific permission from the user who took the photo - if so please note in the description). If it looks like a class project (which it often is), you can try to find a professor/teacher leading it, send them a…

It happens rarely, but sometimes I see an organism with my own eyes, but don’t get a photo; i.e., on a BioBlitz. So, someone else has said, ‘you can share my photo; after all, you saw it, too.’ When we did that, I noted the photo was used with permission and the other person held the copy right. I…

This sometimes happens when there’s a star bird at a birding location. This happened in December 2021 when 6 vultures were at Botanic Gardens (Singapore). 100+ people came to observe them, hence there were nearly 15 observations of the same group of birds. This can probably confirm a sighting or mak…

[image] sedgequeen: the good news is that it will end soon What will end soon ?, is some new system being put in place ?

But different pictures , while the original query is about the exact same picture being posted multiple times.

How does one reflect the “permission” granted. Today I had to mark as “copyright infringement” for images downloaded from wikimedia commons - images that probably have the most liberal “permissions” but are still not acceptable on inaturalist.

No, it means classes end, users never come back.

Multiple people observing same individual with same photographs

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Multiple people observing same individual with same photographs

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