I’ve submitted a dataset with mixed methods to Dryad. Some of it is data I’ve collected through visual assessment of iNaturalist occurrences, the rest is field data. It is anonymized and the photos are not included in my submitted dataset. I’ve cited the GBIF doi, of course. I’m still uncertain if I am violating licensing agreements? The Dryad team has asked me to confirm.
(This is my first pub and I am unfamiliar with the process! Probably the answer is quite obvious, but I want to be sure.)
What are the licenses of the iNaturalist images that were visually assessed? I wonder if any extracted information would be considered a derived work.
A data object is different from a creative work when it comes to intellectual property, but the reality is that a lot of data is licensed all the same.
The licenses varied depending on user. They all would have had a CC0, CC BY, or CC-BY NC license, of course, to be on GBIF. But I had several thousand observations in the data set that I used to extract my data, so I’m sure there were many of all those three.
The extracted information includes counts and identification of other species (not the focal species in the obs). I’m really not sure where that falls.
