And how about National Geographic magazine: they run numerous contest throughout the year, themselves or in partnership with others (e.g. Best Buy), which attract hundreds of thousands of entries, and each of them has the same rule: by simply submitting your entry, you are granting them all usage rights forever!
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Yes, and it's robbery. There should be legislation that prevents this sort of thing. It's the same type of crap Microsoft does that makes it impossible for photographers to make a living: Hire 20, 000 photographers for one year and tell them to shoot everything they can in that time. Pay them very well, and take all the rights from them. Then, sell their photographs as Microsoft's stock photography for 200 years with as many as 1 million photographs. You can buy the entire disk for 50 bucks. Who needs a photographer anymore.
I'll tell you what needs to happen, which would knock big companies out of this robbery, and that's that NO photographer can give away rights, by law. Those who wish to buy them can use them with limitation and that's it. No more Microsoft clearing houses.
That's fine. When the REAL information gets out about "photographer" people will stop investing thousands into their equipment and giving their work away, simply because being a professional photographer is a pipe dream, but perpetuated by camera companies and others who profit from sheep thinking they "have the eye." LOL.
