Originally Posted By: gibson


Herb Your advice is excellent and I will pay attention to what you wrote as it confirms what I thought. Thank you so much.

Alyn


I've been in the music biz long enough to have seen a number of really good people taken advantage of. I've also gotten the typical "come on" letters from shark scammer companies.... and have trashed them all.

I think the worst one was a guy posing as a legit publisher.... signed a number of my songs with the Songwriter's Guild song contract....which was, and perhaps still is the Gold Standard for songwriting contracts. Nothing was happening with the songs.... which is also typical.... then about a year into the contract's 2 year term, I get a letter stating that he'd like to develop and promote me as a star singer/writer/artist.... and he had several packages that I could avail myself of..... the cheapest one was mid 5 digits..... the top one was a sweet, cool quarter mill...... needless to say, when the initial time was up on the contracts I sent my reclamation letter taking back control of the copyright.

One songwriter I worked with years ago had a closet filled with cases of unsold and useless albums that he had from one of the shark companies he was scammed by.

I'm not saying of course that this is a scam. It might be 100% legit and a great opportunity for you to advance your street cred. As a documentary, it might not make you rich but it will certainly pad your resume nicely. Proceed with caution and eyes open. I've known a few folks who got songs into documentary's and the money is slim to none.... but it gets them some recognition.

I wish all the best.

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