I read them in order, bt dubs
I'm assuming the boilerplate included something about no residuals. Did he get to keep a copy. Did Hathaway have unlimited indemnity, even for financials? As a frustrated artist, I know a coupla hundos and exposure don't pay much rent.
I'm case your readers don't know, boilerplate comes from the days of hand set type. Rather than take the time to repeatedly assemble letters, printers would permanently cast blocks of common text into plates, resembling what you might find on a boiler.
A more technical term for boilerplate printing is stereotype.