Person keeps uploading screenshots from livestreams. Is this allowed?

From iNat help page;

" Photos and sounds attached to observations should include evidence of the actual organism at the time of the observation, observed by the user who is uploading the observation. Media used in your iNaturalist observations should represent your own experiences, not just examples of something similar to what you saw. Please do not upload photos or sounds you found elsewhere, such as online or in a book, since they don’t represent your own experiences and are probably a violation of copyright law. Similarly, please do not upload screenshots from broadcasts of live cameras unless you are the owner of the live camera.


for broader discussion around this see :
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/can-i-post-a-screenshot-of-a-satellite-view-from-inaturalist-org/10174/20

I agree with comment on that thread that it would be good to have a workaround for some of these situations in theory though ( if source public domain )…
like for this google maps observer to be able to include images:
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/seen_on_street_view

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