Preliminary Findings from a Qualitative Study on iNaturalist Users License Choices Show There is a Substantial Portion of iNaturalist Users Who Have "All Rights Reserved" by Mistake

[Loopy30]

@cleeb

In my experience, however, one has just to ask the observer to change the license, and in most cases they will do it because they are just unaware of the topic.

In 927 requests made over the last 4 years, about 70% of users responded and 60% successfully changed their licence to CC0, CC-BY, or CC-BY-SA. More than half of these users had already selected an image license of CC-BY-NC, but many had “All Rights Reserved” as their default image license. About 5% of users contacted went even further and changed the default image license of all their other observations as well.