Ok, ok, to save you the trouble of having to read between the lines
, here a sceneario for you that cropped up this year
hey can you shoot this shot for us for in house use-$2000
a month later
hey we really like that shot, can we use if for a print ad in the newspaper- $2000
now the GM says we should use it on the web for the year- $1500
three months later
we were thinking of using it for our public brochure to sell our services in Singapore and Malaysia- $5000
another month later
can we renew all useage for one more year- 10500x2=21000
Perhaps yours is a very vastly different rights pricing structure.
Rights pricing usually falls, meaning you did the shoot for $2000, thereafter they decide to run ad with one of your pictures shot, they usually pay you less than $2000.
Rights managed photography may be the norm in the States (you hinted you used to shoot there?), but in real world here it's not.
In a perfect world, photography should be rights managed, and we should still be shooting on transparencies, just dropped off the films for processing after the shoot, get a beer and we can still bill clients for polaroids.
P/s : I'm talking about interiors shoots here, based on my earlier posts, it's about the only thing I know a little