While most respondents felt that all-rights agreements tended to victimize new writers, a few felt the tradeoffs were worthwhile. The experience and the clips are more important than the money. Once you've built up a good reputation for yourself, you have more power to get contracts revised, ask for more money, and pick and choose who you want to write for. Most magazines, in reality, aren't going to turn your article into a movie, or issue a Braille edition, or sell translation rights overseas. Fortunately, your choices aren't always limited to either accepting the contract or walking away.
Some publications refuse to budge on all-rights contracts, but others are more willing to negotiate.
Even when you can't retrieve your rights, you can often use the same research to write a somewhat different article for a different market. Remember that you are only selling the rights to that particular written piece, not to the ideas or information behind it. Too much depends on the circumstances, needs and goals of the individual writer. With that in mind, many respondents urged Inklings to list all- rights markets and let readers make their own choices. We can decide for ourselves whether terms are suitable for a particular piece.