Fun fact: The artist in question has been dead since 2011. The wording of the article, more specifically when it says:
> Grammy award-winning musician Maria Schneider and Virgin Islands-based Pirate Monitor Ltd teamed up in the summer to file a class-action lawsuit against YouTube.
It somehow led me to believe that the artist was being ... not nice, shall we say. But it turns out it's just the company then. Huh.