I have across similar sites offering photographs for sale which are clearly watermarked by various stock agencies, including my own photos taken from Alamy. I don’t think there is anything you can do except avoid them.
The notion of adding something to your pics to make them unattractive to pirates (for example, a watermark) is a good one. Another good one is to compress your images further than whatever level of JPG compression your pic-taking device is using. I almost never upload full-res images. I almost always use Photoshop’s “Save for Web” function to majorly reduce file size. They still look good enough for on-screen viewing (example, size=33Kb: https://inaturalist.ca/photos/34393721?size=original), but would look like crap if anyone ever tried to print one. This degree of compression also saves me the user, you the viewer, and iNat servers a heck of a lot of bandwidth.
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Hi . I’m new. I’m not a photog. But I want to contribute to naturalist knowledge of my local area - NOT have my photos used anywhere else. I find that unfair and invasive. As far as I can see, any contributions I make to inaturalist are automatically considered as CC though that is not my intent. Any way to opt out of that? Or… is it that by contributing I have to concede to this use. Because then I’d have to decide if I want to continue with this site.
Discussion moved here (thanks!!):
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-change-the-content-licensing-for-an-account-in-inat/3142
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