And here's one...

So the other day azrielknight mentioned in that he was looking for photographers for Comatose Rose. I responded and he said he was hoping that I would be the one to get back to him and to drop him a line. So I did, asking him what the deal was. He responded:

It's pretty simple really, when we need an event covered, you go and take pictures. You just have to take them at 1600 by 1200 or higher.

We usually want 30 good photos,

You wont be aloud to put the same shots on your website, you can however put different shots from the same event up.

Uh, yeah. Right. My incentive for taking pictures and giving up the rights to them is exactly what here? I'll not post my images to where a few thousand people look at them and relinquish my copyright, and therefore my ability to make paintings from them (which is the point in the first place), for a small 'zine distributed in half a douzen clubs? And besides, "aloud"? Allowed Muh. I wrote back saying, sorry, I'll grant a right to publish in the magazine if I otherwise retain copyright.

He replied:

Sorry you feel that way. I wish I could bend on this one, but we can't change our policies for one man who hasn't even had a formal interview yet, my other photographers would be pissed. Now, my Toronto photographer posts the photos he does on his site, but nowhere else. So you could post the photos you take on your site provided they are stamped with our copyright.

Yeah. What a deal that is. Sure... and if I show my paintings in your office lobby for free it'll be "great exposure", if I work my ass off developing your no-business-plan asshat dot.com get-rich-quick website for nothing I might make millions, and a butt-monkey unpaid internship at your failing audio-post studio will make me great industry contacts.

Maybe if I was 22, fresh out of art-school, naïve, and dumb as a post...