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Senior level people at Eventbrite would have had to have known about this clause. The fact that they allowed it in the first place communicated quite a bit about their priorities.

The idea being that it was too buried for Eventbrite themselves to be aware of it?

lawyers don't write in a bunch of permission clauses.

they turn what their clients asks for into legalese.

This might be the case, but I think that maybe the original request ( Hey guys, what if we could film such an event and use it for our promotion ), translated into legalese, had to be that broad otherwise it made no sense ( ie. that Eventbrite would have had to run after everyone to ask for permission to film, or that after filming, the participants would have to veto it ).

This is what I mean, hey lawyers we want to film events for promo stuff, and lawyers go through all the risks and make the contract super aggressive.

There is no way high level managers and/or the CEO of Eventbrite did not know about this.