Some CC observations not showing up in filtered searches

[rawcomposition]

I’ve noticed that some observations which are licensed under Creative Commons are not showing up when searching for species on the Explore page with the corresponding CC license selected. Here’s an example:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21168825

When searching for the species with CC-BY license selected, I get no results, despite CC-BY being the license listed on the observation detail page, and the license_code returned from the API:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?photo_license=cc-by&taxon_id=20563

I also noticed that the image is served from https://static.inaturalist.org instead of https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com.

I noticed the same issue with this observation:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/108136200

Am I missing something? Is this a known issue of some sort?

I did find this similar issue that was apparently resolve: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/2592

[jwidness]

Observations and photos can be licensed differently. In the first example, the observation is CC-BY, but the photo is all rights reserved, see https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/32720798.

[rawcomposition]

Interesting, I hadn’t really imagined a scenario where the image and observation have different licenses. With that said, the filter option actually says “Photo License”, so that comes with the assumption that the images in the observations return match the chosen license. So maybe it’s more of a search filter bug?

[jwidness]

Sorry, which is the example showing results with photo licenses that don’t match the search term?

[rawcomposition]

Actually I guess you’re right, the search filter does seem to be correctly filtering by photo license. It’s just rather confusing when the photo and observation license do not match.