Aspiro, the parent company of the rapper/mogul’s streaming service, Tidal, has been slapped with a class-action lawsuit claiming that the service is infringing on artists’ copyrights and stiffing them on royalties from Tidal streams. In the lawsuit filed in federal court in New York, Yesh Music and John K. Emanuele say Aspiro “systematically undercut the calculation of mechanical royalties” via “illegal deals with equity investor partners.”
Source: Jay Z’s Company Slapped With $5 Million-Plus Lawsuit Over Artists’ Royalties