Wixen, Selectively Chooses Who To Fight For $$ - SPOTIFY

Oh, some "rights" organization is suing Spotify. WIXEN. There's no shortage of self-appointed "rights" organizations is there? "Hey, we're the RIAA. We're the IFPI. We're GEMA. We're the Harry Fox Agency. We're ASCAP. We're BMI. And...we're blind to most everything except SPOTIFY.

If you go to GOOGLE and type in "Beach Boys" and "free download" or ZIPPYSHARE you'll find yourself in the wild wonderful world of "BLOGGING." There are thousands of blogs (on Google's BLOGSPOT) where GENEROUS SHARERS are offering just about every song you can think of free. And if you can't find it on BLOGSPOT it's likely to be streaming, free, on Google's other bastard child, YOUTUBE.

So, Wixen, where's your lawsuit? Where are your takedowns and DMCA requests? You've put together 250 pages of documents and lawyers charge in BILLING HOURS, but you don't have any interest in having an intern wipe up the SHIT that is splattered all over Blogspot and YouTube? Whyzat?

PS, who the hell ARE YOU? Never heard of WIXEN before. Most places will tell you that if you want to cover a song for your album or on YouTube etc., you go to the Harry Fox agency. Suddenly WIXEN is a major music publisher? You guys represent ME and MY music? You're rattling SPOTIFY and they'll toss you some pennies to toss to ME? Or is BMI handling that for me? Or the RIAA? Excuse me, but I was never big on alphabet soup, and frankly, from what most musicians tell me, you ALL are doing a stinking job.

In the real world, there's "quality of life" issues. Fire trucks do race to the scene of a tree where a kitty is stuck on a high branch. Cops do investigate a noise complaint now and then even if it's not as important as murder. People routinely get parking tickets and speeding tickets just to let them know that they can't ALWAYS park where they please and drive at double the speed limit.

It's awfully nice that WIXEN is making a splash with their SPOTIFY lawsuit. I've got an album on SPOTIFY and I'd like to see a big royalty check someday. BUT...how about taking care of the drips? Or to put it another way, I wonder how Cary Sherman (head of the RIAA) handles a bathroom faucet that is going plink...plink...plink all night. Would he shrug and ignore it, or try and do something, or call a plumber? I hope the plumber gives Cary the "appropriate response." Which would be: "What are you complaining about? It's JUST a drip. It's hardly using up much water. If I fix it, it's whack-a-mole because it'll drip again after a while. Don't bother me unless you've got Niagara Falls over there."