I am currently negotiating the terms of use of images generated for a piece for US Marie Claire. I started the story without an agreement, but was eager to cover the story, so was happy to get my teeth in to it.

Their contract has them syndicating the story to foreign editions and showing me consideration by splitting the proceeds.
My contract would have them recieving first North American rights, and me benefitting from the proceeds of further sales outside the required embargo (with the consideration of making the images available to foreign MC editions first).

Apparently, US MC has an arrangement that allows foreign editions to pick up the stories from them, and they “cannot relinquish these rights”.

For those who have not given in to this deal: what has it taken to amiably maintain the resale rights of your images?

Please feel free to send a personal message.

Many thanks for any advice.