They said there's a contract in place and he'll return the money either way. In this case the artist produced something else than contracted to; they took it in

They said there's a contract in place and he'll return the money either way. In this case the artist produced something else than contracted to; they took it in good fun and apparently got pretty good publicity out of that, and they'll still get the money back. Unless someone decides to turn on the lawsuit machine, everyone's a winner here.