The Sweet Deal:

The eternal standard of Way Walker Industries business relationships between publisher and artist as it pertains to monetary payment. This will never change. This is immutable. There will never be discussion tolerated about changing this policy for any reason, least of all, financial reasons. Not while I am alive, not after I am dead, no matter what age comes to pass with the changing times. Permanent.

Is that clear? Good.

Now, because these mundane business matters are rather boring to me I shall hash this out as quickly as possible in short hand to have it done rather than let it take up a blank space on my to-do-list which I am saving for a special reason. A very hard and thorough reason of ultimate satisfaction from my unreasonably unfair and selfless desire for the happiness of someone else before my own. Maybe I’ll refine and polish this business management strategy for media and entertainment later so it looks shiny and pretty. For now, getting the point across clearly, if bluntly, is sufficient.

(In essence, royalty profits beyond production costs are divided 15/85. That is 15 percent for the publisher, 85 percent for the artist(s). Details below)

Start:

Two parties defined in contract. Publisher and Artist. Publisher provides resources and service of publicizing the works of the artist for monetary sale. Artist creates works which the publisher is making public to generate profit.

Both publisher and artist may be associates or partners with Way Walker Industries, or as third-party individuals and/or organizations that are entirely independent of Way Walker Industries and engaging in a business relationship. Same definition applies in both cases.

Business strategy is informally known as “the Sweet Deal”, but is officially titled “Pie Share Wage Theory”. I call it a theory because it has yet to be tested by time as effective. However, I have full confidence in success.

Division of relative expenses: publisher will identify all costs for publication up to the moment of publication. This includes all obvious things like printing, materials, fees, packaging, editing, and everything else that goes into the final product that is put on sale. Publisher will identify labor costs and material costs relevant to the artists product only, not including any umbrella business expenses like utilities, real estate costs, and factors that concern other artists than the creator of the work being sold. For all things like editing, cover design, logo, and other labors of human talent and skill, the wage for their work will be agreed on before they commence work on the artist’s behalf. This also includes wages for the publisher herself.

These are non-royalty wages that are agreed upon internally at Way Walker Industries prior to the publication between the publisher and the skilled laborer, but do not need to be paid in advance. They will be associated with the cost of publication for the unique work of the artist and not extend beyond the date of publication for the work without an addendum to the agreement for uncommon situations not defined here and requiring both publisher and artist agreement. Something like, additional promotion, editing, or some other change about the final product the artist or publisher requests after the date of publication. One additional detail for clarity is that promotional and marketing expenses specifically for the unique work prior to and no later than the moment of publication are included in the agreed upon fees to be paid by sales of the work. All future advertising and promotional expenses after publication are generally considered company-wide umbrella costs irrelevant to the artist/publisher agreement for the unique work.

Before publication begins the publisher and artist will agree that those costs will be paid with a portion of the profits the sale of the work earns. The publisher will reasonably disclose to the best of their ability an estimate of what those will be, which the artist consents are an amount subject to change in terms of what services and how much are required. There are unknown factors like changing material costs and available resources that could result in a different amount, but labor expenses will not be subject to change. It is the burden of the publisher to know how much work will be required to publish an artist’s work to their standards for a final product. The final cost will be determined by the publisher before the moment of publication and disclosed to the artist as non-negotiable if they do not exceed a change of value greater than 15 percent with no limit to how much lower they can be than the initial estimate. If the artist chooses to break the contract at this time, they will be expected to cover those costs or otherwise work with the publisher for a payment plan, agreement, forbearance, or something. People put in a lot of work to make the published product the best they possibly could, and they deserve to be paid.

Likewise, if the publisher decides to break the contract at that time, the publisher will pay the artist an equal sum of those final expenses for the same reason. The artist’s time is valuable and should be compensated for the time they were in an agreement. This contract shall not be affected by criminal convictions with the exception of cases of false information provided in the agreement such as citizen status, legal name, social security number, and normal things like that which reveal the agreement as dishonest and thus not valid while also subject to local penalties for fraud or false identity. Other situations that may result in a contract being rendered null and void with no payment exchanged between parties are criminal convictions of murder and violent sexual assault known as rape with forced penetration against resistance.

In cases of “date rape” if the accused is proven to have used an illegal controlled substance the victim was unaware of imbibing as determined in a court of law, that will qualify as violent sexual assault above (poison as means of bodily assault with the intent to restrain). All other criminal activity, such as larceny, indecent exposure, drug trafficking, grand theft auto, bank robbery, driving under the influence (even if resulting in manslaughter) etc. is discouraged but will not be grounds for terminating a contract.

If “murder” is in any way associated with an act of political defiance of a lawless or unjust government via revolution, such as assassinating a politician, government official, or religious clergy (not lay people), the publisher and artist may decide to waive their right to void the contract because of the theological justification for acts of war which tolerates the moral decision to kill other human beings as a righteous and good judgment. (See Saint Augustine’s advocation for “Just War Theory” for more information on this topic.) Hopefully none of those situations will ever be applicable, but if they are, this is how they will be determined.

Alright. Now the meat and potatoes as it concerns artists and publisher's bank accounts.

Until the agreed upon expenses are paid in full, all sale profits, which specifically are defined as payment surplus beyond the costs for continuous production of the final work. Those are always subject to change but will be included in full detail on the royalty invoice for both the publisher and artist as they are required. First, sales proceeds will cover those expenses. Then, whatever profit remains will be divided equally 50/50 between publisher and artist until the agreed upon publication fees are paid in full.

After the publication fees are paid, the royalty profit share will change from 50/50 to 15/85. That is 15 percent for the publisher and 85 percent for the artist. Any decimal rounding will be done in favor of the artist. This will never change. As long as Way Walker Industries is paying the publisher and/or the artist that is how royalty profits will be divided. No exceptions. Duration of the agreement may proceed indefinitely or be terminated at any time by publisher or artist after the agreed upon expenses are covered. If that happens sooner, whatever fees remain will be liable to whoever initiated the termination of the agreement as above.

Additional addendums to “the Sweet Deal” may apply, but those will be added and be applicable as necessary and normal with business agreements signed under contract relative to the time and place they occur.

That is for individual artists, bands, creative teams, or other creators. How a band or film team for example divides up their profits is between their manager and them and is of no concern to the publisher in this regard.

Now, for royalties paid as profit from paying customers engaging in a membership fee to access a library of different works of any kind, this is how those will be divided. First, Way Walker Industries will never have an interest in providing a comprehensive and complete collection of available works. Way Walker Industries offering a subscription service like that with an annual or monthly membership fee will always be curated collections with no limit to the size of the collection, but each individual piece will be considered critically by the relevant project team before being included in available content for a membership subscription to access.

For these cases, the profit exchange will be the same with or without the publication process as applicable. 50/50 then 15/85. 15 percent will go to Way Walker Industries and 85 percent to the artists in featured in the subscription. As for the artists, each artist no matter how many works they have agreed to be included for access will receive equal shares of the 85 percent profit margin. So, even if you are an artist being featured and your works are less popular for whatever reason, you will receive the same royalties as the artists whose works are most popular, even if they are mega famous stars like Taylor Swift or highly acclaimed film makers like Quenten Taratino and yours is your first work and you aren’t world famous yet.

If there are 10 different artists in the collection or 10,000 different artists in the collection this royalty payment will be divided the same. This too will never change, no exceptions. Not for Way Walker Industries anyway. That is our permanent company policy and we will never change that in all the years to come. Artists can request to have their works included in such collections or be contacted by Way Walker Industries requesting to include their works, but the depends on the kind of collection members will have access to as programs like that come and go like the seasons.

As for Way Walker Industries providing that service, the 15 percent share is what will be applied as a bonus to the team managing that program, and the same with individual publications too. The distribution of that between the applicable people contributing the product/service is a different matter that will be internally decided by the managers and employees and included in the terms of their employment. Maintenance costs for subscription services like that probably aren’t as expensive in relation to publication costs, so the labor of the maintenance such as application management, software engineering, and other employee wages for customer service will be included in production costs and disclosed to the artists in addition to any changes that occur. That will not be necessary for individual publication teams. Those are one-time fee kinds of things. Other things like umbrella expenses relevant to the sale of a published work can potentially be included in production costs as necessary for maintaining a point of sale for customers to buy an artist’s work. Any features beyond a point of sale, such as technical support or non-sales customer service, need to be financed by other means.

So much for short hand, but at least it’s done.

End.

I know some of you people like to think I am lazy and unproductive because of what my working conditions need to be like, but just because I am soaking in a hot bubble bath listening to music doesn’t mean I’m not hard at work brainstorming something. I am in fact an artist and a publisher, and as an artist, I need freedom to be able to be inspired for my best work, and I need to be able to create my best work or I become dangerously depressed. In the military I could do my best work even when doing some trivial, menial labor, because of the context of that work in a national military at war. No matter what a person is doing for their job in the military, that contributes to the entire war effort.

I became accustomed to doing my best work under some of the most stressful conditions possible. I have not been able to adjust to the obliviously stress free day-to-day of civilian life since then, especially not with so many nefarious malefactors and anonymous cyberterrorists making my life a living hell for the most inappropriate reason of me being a Gentile opposed to circumcision.

As a result, the War on Terror has followed me into civilian life, but I am no longer enlisted in the military or employed by the government. I am just a man fighting for my freedom, human rights, and means of survival now, but the war is the same as when I was in the military. To that end, I cannot do my best work if I am employed by someone else doing some sort of regular labor while also leading the war against the Jews and all other enemies of America, including our own government. The abomination of the USA’s government has been aggressively hostile to me in that regard and used all manner of psychological and cyber warfare in an attempt to harm me, while also using me as some sort of pawn to be sacrificed in some idiotic scheme of theirs that I never consented to participate in.

There is not much I can do about the government and their abuse of military resources being used against me with malevolent social manipulation and cyberterrorism, but doing my best work as an artist and a business owner is the only way I am able to manage. That is the only way I am able to productively channel the stress I am constantly under while whoever is responsible for molesting me with a national government has been expecting me to perform miracles that are not humanly possible. Not only that, but they want me to do that specifically against my own interest and in the interest of a monstrous government that has sold me like a slave to our enemies to be sacrificed. Hell no will I ever help them. I will fight them to my dying breath and ever after until they are no more.

I don’t get paid. I don’t get gratitude. I don’t get peace of mind knowing my home is secure. It is horrible, but I am not lazy or unproductive and you should not be assuming that you are in any place to judge how I use my time when you are my servant in the government or somebody else’s in the economy. In case you haven’t realized, I am the master of my own life and line of work, I am a self-made master, and you are in no place to think you know anything better than me when it comes to my life or my line of work. If you haven’t learned by now to fear my rebuke for your arrogant attempt to challenge my authority as a master with your own servile status in a line of worldly work that is servile to my own line of spiritual work, then I doubt you even realize yet what I have done to most harshly put you in your place.

Nevertheless, I make the most of my time and labor to be of service to the greater good with the best of my ability, and to do that, I need to be able work on my own terms and nobody else’s, which I do.