{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/637","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/637/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/637/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/637/events","html_url":"https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/637","id":95586638,"number":637,"title":"Simplifying observation/photo/sound licenses","user":{"login":"loarie","id":598026,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/598026?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie","html_url":"https://github.com/loarie","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/inaturalist/inaturalist/labels/improvements","name":"improvements","color":"84b6eb"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":7,"created_at":"2015-07-17T04:59:58Z","updated_at":"2015-11-20T00:21:06Z","closed_at":null,"body":"When someone joins iNaturalist, they get separate CC-BY-NC licenses added to their observations, photos and sounds unless they un-check the 'Yes license my...' box.\r\n\r\nNot surprisingly, the vast majority of iNat users (78%) go with these settings (the NC-NC pink block in the lower left of the graphs). There's another cohort of around 5% who uncheck the box (the ARR-ARR pink block towards the center of the graphs).\r\n\r\nThe interesting cohort, is the cohort that modifies these default bundled settings. I thought the remaining pink blocks on this graph represented large cohorts that actively changed their settings, but unfortunately I think these are mostly artifacts for how we've rolled things out over the years (e.g. switching from CC-BY to CC-BY-NC, rolling out licenses first, and then sound) and how people opted in or out of these features as they were introduced, so I'm not sure there's a lot to learn from the data without very rigorously retracing exactly how we rolled things out... oh well.\r\n<img width=\"1427\" alt=\"screen shot 2015-07-16 at 4 20 40 pm\" src=\"https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/598026/8737426/b7b3fc36-2bd6-11e5-8434-6d7db9277479.png\">\r\nBut it does seem that most users aren't doing much other than leaving the settings checked, unchecking them, or perhaps actively altering things in a way that makes photos and/or sounds AllRightsReserved but not Observations (if these aren't artifacts). But its clear that people are NOT opting out of Observations licensing independently of the 'bundled opt out' which is almost certainly driven by concern over media (not observations).\r\n\r\nWith that in mind, here's a proposal to:\r\n(a) make it so that observations must be licensed for new users\r\n(b) combine photo and sound licenses for new users\r\nin order to greatly simplify what it means for an observation to be 'licensed'. With these changes, 'licensed observations' will have CC licenses applied to their media (photos/sound). 'unlicensed observations' will have media that is AllRightsReserved.\r\n\r\n\r\nIn the iNat terms of service we can make it clear that the non-media portion of observations created on iNat are considered licensed content without explicitly displaying licenses for this non-media portion of an observation."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/comments/158241631","html_url":"https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/637#issuecomment-158241631","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/637","id":158241631,"user":{"login":"loarie","id":598026,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/598026?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie","html_url":"https://github.com/loarie","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-20T00:21:06Z","updated_at":"2015-11-20T00:21:06Z","body":">>Scott, are you proposing that we remove the ability to declare a license for your observations, or just remove that option from the signup process?\r\n\r\n@kueda sorry just saw this, I'm proposing we remove the ability to declare a license for observations. Specifically:\r\n\r\nStep 1:\r\nWire up Signup so that:\r\nChecking the 'license my content' box sets photo: CC-BY-NC, sound: CC-BY-NC, observation: CC-BY\r\nUnchecking the box means photo: nil, sound: nil, observation: CC-BY\r\n\r\nStep 2: \r\nAlter Account UI so that:\r\n1. For new users, instead of 3 choosers there's just a single 'Default Media License' chooser, e.g. like this but labeled differently:\r\n<img width=\"388\" alt=\"screen shot 2015-11-19 at 4 12 17 pm\" src=\"https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/598026/11288399/81e2c3d4-8ed8-11e5-9921-a023da95b6a5.png\">\r\n2. For old users add the following transition tool above the existing Licensing UI:\r\n```\r\nWe've simplified how licenses work and now only support a single media license for photos AND sound rather then separate licenses for observations, sound and photos. For new users, all observations are automatically given a CC-BY license that can't be altered and a single Media license applies to both photos and sounds. As an existing user, nothing has changed for you, but we encourage you to adopt this simpler system. This will:\r\n1) apply a CC-BY license to all of your past observations and set this as your license moving forward\r\n2) apply your current photo license to all of your past sounds as a single media license\r\n3) simplify this interface so that there is just a single media license chooser\r\n(Yes please) (No thanks)\r\n```\r\nWhere 'Yes Please' changes the user's content and switches to the new user License UI\r\n\r\nStep 3:\r\nStop displaying observation licenses on observation/show for all observations:\r\n<img width=\"311\" alt=\"screen shot 2015-11-19 at 4 16 58 pm\" src=\"https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/598026/11288452/ff22f33c-8ed8-11e5-9f30-eafb843e8cf1.png\">"}}