(EXCLUSIVE) Jay Z $5 Million Lawsuit Over TIDAL Royalties Dismissed

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theJasmineBRAND.com exclusively reports, Jay Z has been dropped from the $5 million dollar class action lawsuit filed by a musician, who accused the rapper/mogul & his streaming service Tidal of screwing him out of royalties, with the artist dismissing all claims against Jay Z per their deal.

Yesh Music LLC and musician John Emanuele filed a federal lawsuit against Jay Z’s company, S. Carter Enterprises, along with 2 other companies behind TIDAL, accusing them of copyright infringement and underpayment of royalties.

The company is the owner of 118 copyrighted musical recordings – from a band named The American Dollar – and Emanuele is a member of the group. They explain the songs are currently available to be streamed on TIDAL.

However, the company said TIDAL never obtained permission from the band or paid a dime in royalties.

The plaintiffs added, “Ironically, when Defendant Carter purchased the Tidal Music Service in 2015, it claimed it would be the first streaming service to pay the artists. Different owner, same game” — referring to the prior ownership of Tidal before Jay Z purchased the company for a reported 56 million last year.

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The complaint stated that Jay Z and the owners of TIDAL aren’t naïve in royalty payments and describes them as “experts” in the process of paying musicians their money.

TIDAL has over 25 million tracks in their music library by dumping all the music of independent artists into their library without licensing or receiving authorization from the artists.

Further, they claimed TIDAL failed to provide monthly accounting reports to artists for royalties.

Yesh Music LLC and John Emanuele filed suit for up to 150k in damages per infringement along with an injunction from TIDAL from continuing to distribute their music illegally. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the plaintiffs and any other artists who were screwed out of money from Jay Z’s company. The complaint was seeking in excess of 5 million dollars.

Then on April 7th, docs were filed in the case by both Jay Z’s company and Yesh Music LLC and musician John Emanuele which state that all claims against the music mogul are dismissed.

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