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Iglesias's Music Streaming Suit Confronts Big Industry Issue
Music superstar Enrique Iglesias wasn't dancing around the point when he recently filed a lawsuit in Miami federal court against Universal International Music. The “Bailando” singer's music has generated billions of streams for Universal, which he alleges has shortchanged him on royalties, according to the complaint filed by Miami attorneys at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Iglesias v. Universal International Music BV, 1:2018cv20283.
The case is part of the larger issue of how the music industry treats the sale of digital music versus physical counterparts like compact discs. “Few business relationships in the history of the music industry have achieved the commercial success attained by Enrique Iglesias and Universal: 100 million albums sold, billions of streams and repeat appearances at the top of the Billboard charts,” Iglesias's attorney James Sammataro, who is national head of Stroock's entertainment litigation practice group and managing partner of the firm's Miami office, said in a statement. “Despite this record-breaking success, Universal has wrongly insisted that artists like Enrique be paid for streams in the same manner as they are paid for physical records despite the fact that none of the attendant costs — production, distribution, inventory, losses — actually exist in the digital world.”
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