And it's not just artists getting screwed, but printers too. We had a large contract customer last year stop paying us, to the tune of 12K, and had that same attitude. But, a judge found otherwise, and has increased their debt to 28K, and we are a secured creditor, as opposed to unsecured. Then, a new customer, a much larger promotional company, and wants to do a run of 4400 shirts for a local University, and they will get us permission to use the art, that we've already printed and not been paid for. Hilarious... so, I looked up the school and on their website, they state that to do business with them, a vendor has to be stable, and of the highest character. What a load of BS, when I called them to try to take the work, and explain what they have done in the past to other small vendors, and they said that they would take it under advisement. In other words, despite their rhetoric, they're crap too...
Steve