> Your link indicated nothing about the exclusivity being his idea, That... is an interesting point. As I remember, that's how it was reported at the time, ev

> Your link indicated nothing about the exclusivity being his idea, That... is an interesting point. As I remember, that's how it was reported at the time, even though that specific article doesn't mention it. Given that is the impression I get now from reading the article, what with him initiating the deal, it's possible that I might have merely inferred it from similar reporting in the past. So it's possible that although he approached them to use it for his art, they said OK, but then said they'd only do so if they wouldn't sell it to anyone else. And he agreed, but defends the arrangement anyway rather than saying something like "yeah, but they wouldn't let me use it at all otherwise." So maybe that's what happened, but it doesn't sound plausible, it's not how I remember the story, and it happened nine years ago so I don't really give enough of a shit to go looking through near-decade-old reports from the time to actually double-check the details. If it does matter enough to you and you can provide a reliable source that definitively refutes it being his idea, I'll happily edit my comments and retract calling him a fucking douchebag. In the meantime, I'll risk being a random nobody on the internet who happens to be angrily wrong about an artist they've never paid any attention to the art of. Because in the grand scheme of things, who cares what I think about him anyway?