i agree with that. i know daniel but little else about the situation, but generally if you’re a lawyer and you don’t have clear/any contracts with your artists, that feels not good!

Absolutely. I only know Corey a little via email, and I know he's a one-man operation with a job and a family. Still, if you started to have disagreements with your artists, that seems like the time to try and resolve it *via contract*. Didn't we invent contracts for this?