This is amusing to me...

[mjr]

All:

This is amusing to me. Several of you may recall that I sent a song to be copyrighted a few months ago (back in March, I believe). Anyway, over the past two weeks I have received two letters (I believe they're form letters) in the mail asking me to submit songs for review. The letters came from two separate companies, apparently in Hollywood, CA.

This has never happened before, and I find it rather amusing.

I'm probably not going to send them anything. If I remember what the "companies" were who sent me the letters, I'll post them to see if anyone has had any dealings with them.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I guess anyone on here who gets a song (or songs) copyrighted should expect these types of letters.

 

[the inhabitant]

I would be curious to know what the companies are. Try to find something about them on the internet. I'm about to copyright 12 songs. So I'm really curious. I can't think of any reason why that would happen. There must be 1000 songs copyrighted per day, 999 of which would have no commercial value.

 

[mjr]

I would be curious to know what the companies are. Try to find something about them on the internet. I'm about to copyright 12 songs. So I'm really curious. I can't think of any reason why that would happen. There must be 1000 songs copyrighted per day, 999 of which would have no commercial value.

I found out stuff about them...It's AmeRecord and Hill Top Records.

It was not good.

http://cdbaby.org/stories/04/02/24/1092490.html
http://www.justplainfolks.org/ubb/Forum4/HTML/001897.html
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff103580.htm

 

[mikeh]

While I have not run across Amerecord - Hill Top has been around for many years. I think I got my first letter from them about 25 years ago and I still get letters every once in a while.

Anyone who suggests they can record your songs if you pay a production fee up front is most likely a scam.

I commend you that you were savvy enough to read the contact and intelligent enough to understand the catch.

 

[mjr]

While I have not run across Amerecord - Hill Top has been around for many years. I think I got my first letter from them about 25 years ago and I still get letters every once in a while.

Anyone who suggests they can record your songs if you pay a production fee up front is most likely a scam.

I commend you that you were savvy enough to read the contact and intelligent enough to understand the catch.

What I would eventually like is a list of legitimate companies I can pitch songs to. Just in case I eventually want to either license out a song of mine, or sell one of the songs I've written/copyrighted outright.

 

[cmhansen]

Yeah, I get those everytime I send in music to be copyrighten. Once your tunes are, they are public record so these places try to get you to sign.

I don't know anything about these places so I can't comment on thier true intentions. Always be careful when you get things like that. Some have internet sites and some don't, so you can't really even tell by that.