Business card from whom?
A DJ hired me as a violinist to play with him at an event. We don’t usually work together, but specifically for that event he needed a violin.
One of the guests at the event came up to me and asked for my business card and I gave it to him. Afterwards, the DJ told me that I had behaved inappropriately and that I should have referred the man to him so that he could give him his business card.
In my humble opinion, I acted in the right way. Who is right halachically/morally?
The question is which card did he want. Yours or the DJ’s? Only if he asked for the DJ’s and you worked on it and gave him yours is it wrong. If he asked for you, I don’t see a problem with giving him yours. Maybe there’s a side that thought you were a team and therefore asked for the card, and then you had to explain and give them both. But if it’s not clear that this is the case, I don’t see a problem.
He asked for mine because he liked playing the violin and was probably looking for a violinist. The DJ can claim for his part that he brought me to the event and that it was "his" event, so if someone is interested in the violinist he brought, they should contact him, and so at other events he can arrange a violinist for those who need one and make money from it.
This is just nonsense.
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