Quote Originally Posted by bcys1961 View Post
The Sydney Morning Herald Clique competition has this same clause and they say it is simply to protect themselves against other taking your photo off their website and using it wherever. Once they post one of your photo's on their website thy say they largely lose control of it as anyone can copy and paste it to their own website , or facebook etc.. Hence the bit about " any platform either now known or hereafter invented " . Drafted by lawyers to cover every possible eventuality.
Sounds like bullshit to me. If you licence them to use the photo on their website (limited use blah blah) and someone steals it from there and uses it elsewhere it is not Sydney Morning Herald's fault or problem. You know that's a risk with any image on the web and there is no way for the SMH to prevent it. It's still up to you to pursue the thief (if you want), because you still own the copyright.
Lawyers that come up with this catch all style of wording are just lazy and not expert enough in the field IMHO.