Pam,

I agree. I would suggest a "sticky" at the top of any peer crit forum, here or at other websites.

However, the reality is, as far as I can tell (and I've done a bit of casual research on this) there has never been a hit that was originally posted at a peer critique forum on an internet website. It's a scenario without fruition. So for the past several years it is a problem that hasn't happened.

For one thing, there are very few songs posted on websites that are even in the ballpark of hit material. For another, the vast, and I mean VAST majority of hits come from a lot of personal relationships developed with major players in the music industry. The songwriter who is writing hit quality songs and interacting with other hit songwriters and successful music biz folks, generally, has little time to be critiquing and posting on peer crit sites...and they will not be exposing themselves to possible lawsuits or nuisance harrassment.

So as a newbie, I wouldn't worry. I'd simply not use others' suggestions without communicating with them.



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