[radu]

That's everyday legalese for "If you want to give us an idea, the lawyers have to touch it first."

Just about every media company in America subscribes to that policy, for protection from litigation by angry creative types insisting that "someone stole my idea."

So unless you view a statement of standard office procedure as "threatening," the answer is no, it doesn't come across as threatening at all.

Thanks.
That's the first time that type of statement has shown up in any emails I've received from the networks. Kinda caught me off guard and I wasn't sure what they had in mind.

[Xenalyte]

I'm guessing that's because vaguely, in the "mind" of some e-mail filter setting deep in the bowels of the mail server, the content of your e-mail was deemed to have some relation to show content, so that boilerplate got automatically sent to you.

At least, that's how I'd set it up if I had the doing, which clearly I don't. ;)