> Legally speaking, the photographer is completely within his rights. That's not that clearly cut. One needs to fit in one of the following 3 cases if one want

> Legally speaking, the photographer is completely within his rights. That's not that clearly cut. One needs to fit in one of the following 3 cases if one wants to take "professional" photos at a live show: 1) hired by the performer, thus the copyright belongs to the performer 2) hired by the organizers/venue: copyright goes to the venue/organizer 3) 3rd party and this goes complicated, because based on your contract with the venue/organizer, you might or might not retain the copyright on the pictures. One thing that people on here and even on reddit, seem to not know is that the usual arrangement is for these 3rd parties to get free access to the festival, in exchange of helping with promoting the event/bands. This is why on virtually all live events you are not allowed to show up with a professionally looking video/photo device. In one case, this was explained as "any device with detachable lenses". In order to be admitted with such a device, you need to have an accreditation, witch means you fit in one of the categories above. Which in turn means there is a contract that stipulates what exactly you are allowed to do with the material you are gathering.