The shoe’s on the other foot this time round.

Prince has been sued for copyright infringement after offering an album by The Voice contestant Judith Hill for free download.

Earlier this week, Prince sent out an email encouraging fans to download the debut album from Hill, who featured on the US version of the talent show in 2013. The email included a link to a free download of the 11-track record that has since expired, writing: ‘Please spend some time with this music and then share it with someone U love.’

Now Prince is being sued by producer Jolene Cherry, who claims that Hill signed an exclusive contract with her and Sony Records after appearing on The Voice in 2013. Cherry says her relationship with Sony was then restructured, and that the rights to Hill’s four-album deal should have passed to her. She also claims that she rejected Hill’s request to record and release an album with Prince, warning her that working with the artist would violate the recording agreement.

According to the lawsuit, filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday (March 27), “The Cherry Party is informed and believes, and on that basis alleges, that Hill and Prince boldly and inexplicably ignored these warnings (and the law) and continued to proceed. Indeed, not only did Hill and Prince finish an album of 11 songs, but they also played that music for a group of reporters and then proceeded to release it on the Internet as a free digital download.”

Cherry is now seeking compensation for losses and punitive damages for making “it economically unfeasible for them to ever release Hill’s ‘first album’ or their recordings of songs.”

Prince is no stranger to copyright infringement cases, but he’s usually on the other side – last year he launched a $22 million lawsuit against concert bootleggers. [via The Hollywood Reporter]