If you're a commercial photographer attending a Foo Fighters gig, you get the right to run photos of their choosing exactly once, and they get all rights to everything you've shot forevermore.
In an article explaining its decision, the newspaper shared a copy of the contract that was provided by the Foo Fighters: "If we signed it, we would have agreed to: the band approving the photos which run in the City Paper; only running the photos once and with only one article; and all copyrights would transfer to the band," writes the City Paper.
"Then, here's the fun part, the band would have 'the right to exploit all or a part of the Photos in any and all media, now known or hereafter devised, throughout the universe, in perpetuity, in all configurations' without any approval or payment or consideration for the photographer."
Foo Fighters [Paul Natkin/Photo Reserve, Inc]
(Thanks, Magicpeacelove!)
(Image: Foo Fighters Live 29, Jo, CC-BY)
