Sting’s lawyer: “Summers and scattered Copeland”

The great success of Police of 1983 “Every breath you take” It is at the center of a legal dispute between the members of the band: Sting on the one hand, Stewart Copeland And Andy Summers on the other. The only accredited author of the song is Stinghowever, the riff of “Every breath you take” He was invented by the guitarist Summers. Riff then also taken up by Puff Daddy when he sampled the song for his “I’m be missing you”.

Now, after 42 years, Summers and Copeland have sued Sting For millions of dollars due to the Royalty lost throughout this time. Sting has not yet replied to this cause, but his lawyer claims that Summers and Copeland were, if anything, scrambled.

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According to an article published by the New York Times regarding the cause, Sting he entered into an agreement with his two bandmates when they founded the Police In 1977, in which he promised Summers and Copeland 15% of “Some Royalties” deriving from the songs that the same Sting He had written, and this commitment should have “kept things quiet” inside the band. Sting is the only author accredited by most of the greatest successes of Policebut Summers and Copeland claim that Sting now they must their “arrangement fees” for the “digital exploitation” of the music of Police.

Sting’s lawyers claim that the band’s singer and his companions signed an agreement on the arrangement fees in 2016, when Copeland and Summers disagreed on the use of the songs of the Police in TV and films. Also according to Sting’s lawyers, the case is an “illegitimate attempt” to reinterpret the agreement and which Sting actually “substantially paid in excess” Summers and Copeland, on the basis of the terms of the 2016 agreement.