It's all in the turn-of-phrase at that point, all about the gimmick where they can say "we never made any promises of sale." I'd love to see people like that have to back up their "likely"s with "if they don't sell, you will be refunded" such-and-such. That's what I'd like to see. I think if I were a curator or some such, I would do just that and offer to give back the money if nothing sells.
The publishing company I went through, I would not have if the contract did not stipulate that I get all profits until the money I paid in is refunded, then they only take 20 cents or something like that.
What you set up sounds good to me.
I just dislike the whole thing of being able to vaguely word things and get away with murder, and case in point the artist suffers from an intellectual impairment and I feel like there is potential they took advantage of her.
Makes me angry as hell.
Definitely. I know there is something called the 'Lemon Law' here in the states for car sales where, if you take it home and there's such-and-such wrong (I don't know all the details) you can return it to the owner and get your money back... at least, that's how I've heard it.
I also think there are some things in that same vein that can be done about people taking advantage of the intellectually impaired. Is there nothing she could do or have someone do to get her money back as she was taken advantage?
I guess, in the end, it would be difficult to prove.