Rock journalists receive far more unsolicited material than they know what to do with.

The fact that he held at his home unsolicited materials from Ferrari was not known to any other member of the team prior to July 3.

But unsolicited material, such as a sheet of slides, usually receives a only a nice letter in return.

Newspapers and radio stations use them as copy for stories, as this unsolicited material is a good source of news for little effort.

Officials at Warner Bros., which syndicates the show, said unsolicited material was usually returned unopened.

But the studio didn't accept unsolicited material and returned it unread.

Because of this and other legal issues, labels, with a few exceptions, soon stopped listening to unsolicited material.

"They told us the studio usually returns unsolicited material without even opening it."

In entertainment, for legal reasons it is common for production companies not to accept unsolicited materials from any other company, talent, or person from the general public.

There's a Catch-22: reading unsolicited material is verboten for those same agents and managers.