I have a question to make sure I have been taking appropriate action and not creating a bunch of false flags. I’m assuming screenshots from the sound ID page of the Merlin ID app should be flagged as a copyright violation, correct?
Example from my own phone:
So because the screenshot includes photo icons, this seems to be a clear copyright violation. What if they cropped the screenshot so that only the spectrogram was shown? (I know spectrograms are discourage by iNat staff anyway, but I’m trying to figure out if this should be flagged).
Some relevant sections from the Cornell Lab’s terms of use:
All of the content featured or displayed on the Services, including, but not limited to, still images, text, pictorial works, video images, still images of video, graphic designs, audio recordings, multimedia combinations, and computer programs, including web-based programs (“Content”) is owned or licensed by Cornell Lab of Ornithology. […]
- To not reproduce, distribute, modify, re-post on another site (regardless of the server on which the Content is stored) […]
- To refrain from framing or mirroring any portion of the Site […]