This may be crazy to some, but IMHO, photography shouldn’t be subject to copyright… at least, not all cases. If you’re taking a photograph of a moment that happens, that is a fact. “This is what it reality looked like at a certain moment from a certain location at a certain angle” Facts shouldn’t be copyrightable. Now, if you make an effort to create a scene, that can be, (or maybe if you arrange several photographs in a creative order, the order not being chronological, because that again is a fact), but if you do that, then the people who help you create the scene (such as by being in it in an elaborate costume they made themselves in the case of cosplayers) either share in the copyright (and sharing should always be permissive: if two people share a copyright, it only takes one person to allow a use of it), or a contract is signed which establishes otherwise.
But I’ve got a lot of crazy ideas that the laws (either those of man or those of physics) don’t always agree with.
