Hello, I run a class project, and saw one of my students had content flagged as copyright violation removed.I want to see whether there is proof or documentation of violation(s) available beyond the flag page? We take academic integrity very seriously, and I have had a small number of students do …

To clarify what Diana just said, try emailing help@inaturalist.org , which is the staff email that @tiwane manages.

In one situation that may have prompted this post (the OP and I already messaged privately), I as the flagger was lazy and did not leave a comment indicating why I flagged the photo for copyright. When he messaged me to ask, I went back to look, but the observer had already deleted the photo, so I …

Thanks for updating us, and for catching the copyright violation to begin with:) I hope the teacher sees my comment above concerning assuming good motives.

One of those people was probably me. I conflated ‘proof’ with seeing the source of the photo. I understand better reading your post.

[image] zdanko: let’s try to keep things relevant. The OP was asking how to see the proof of/reason for a copyright flag, not how to find copyright infringing observations. You lost me. I don’t see any responses that aren’t relevant. Am I missing something?

[image] kmforum: And we certainly don’t want to discourage any potential future iNaturalists:) I am all for encouraging newbies. But not by turning a blind eye when they violate copyright, or break the relatively few rules on iNat.

I think my comment was misunderstood, but thanks for the reply.

[image] zdanko: The OP was asking how to see the proof of/reason for a copyright flag, not how to find copyright infringing observations. Apologies, I thought the sblanco was saying he wanted to see the “student-submitted” photo that was flagged himself (hence my URL hacks). I may have misint…

[image] sblanco: I also was referred to this blog post (last updated by @zdanko ) which was very helpful, but not directly in terms of what I am requesting: @zdanko ~ The OP was not referred to that blog post, on how to find copyright infringing observations, by any of us here on this thread.…

[image] sblanco: I guess this is a question and a feature request if such a system doesn’t already exist. FYI ~ note the “and” … In all that confusion, nobody has yet addressed Scott’s latter concern — unless I misunderstood, I think he wants a future system that will easily enable him to hav…

[image] kmforum: You lost me. I don’t see any responses that aren’t relevant. Am I missing something? I’m not mentioning anyone specifically, just making a general statement, no need to read into it. [image] Star3: Apologies, I thought the sblanco was saying he wanted to see the “student…

Record availability/documentation to educators of copyright violations from student accounts?

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This part of Scott’s post is still unanswered/unaddressed.

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Record availability/documentation to educators of copyright violations from student accounts?

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