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Sting pays Police bandmates £600,000 in royalties
Sting pays Police bandmates £600,000 in royalties
Sting has paid his former bandmates in The Police more than half a million pounds after acknowledging underpaying royalties, court documents show.
In a filing at London's High Court, the musician's lawyers said Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland received a payment of "over $800,000" (£595,000) after they launched legal proceedings last year.
The pair sued Sting and his publishing company in September, claiming they were owed between $2m (£1.5m) and $10.75m (£8m) in royalties for hit songs like Roxanne and Every Breath You Take. At a hearing on Wednesday, their lawyers said their claim could rise above £8m.
Sting denies that they are entitled to a portion of his income from streaming and download sales.
His bandmates did not receive writing credits on most of The Police's hits, but argue that the group entered an "oral agreement" to share income in 1977, which was later formalised in written contracts.
The agreement acknowledged that, although Sting was the chief composer, the other two members sometimes made crucial contributions - such as Summers' guitar line on Every Breath You Take.
As a result, the trio decided that when any of them received publishing income for a song they had written, they would share a percentage of that money - usually 15% - with the other two members, in what was termed an arrangers' fee.
Summers and Copeland argue he has withheld some of those payments.
None of the band members were in court for the start of the two-day preliminary hearing on Wednesday.
But lawyers for guitarist Summers and drummer Copeland are asking the court for permission to bring new and additional arguments that they are owed money from all downloads and streaming income, under the terms of their prior agreements made in 1997 and 2016.
They say the language of those agreements should be interpreted in light of changes to the music industry, where streaming income has largely replaced the sale of vinyl, CDs and cassettes.
In court papers, they acknowledged a recent payment from Sting and his publishing company, disclosing a figure of $870,000 (£647,000), but noted that no interest had been added to the "historic underpayment".
Speaking in court on Wednesday, the musicians' lawyers said the total value of their claim was "not less than £8m" and "will be considerably larger" if their amended case is allowed to proceed.
Meanwhile, Sting's lawyers argue that he shouldn't have to give his former bandmates royalties when The Police's music is played on streaming services like Spotify because that counts as "public performance" rather than a sale.
Furthermore, they say Summers and Copeland are not eligible for royalties from streaming and digital sales because their 2016 agreement only allows for royalty payments derived "from the manufacture of records".
They added that the musicians' attempt to amend their case should be thrown out as it has "no real prospect of success".
The hearing, before Mr Justice Bright, is due to conclude on Thursday, with a trial expected at a later date.
The Police formed in 1977 and quickly became one of the UK's most successful bands.
Their innovative fusion of rock guitars with reggae rhythms spawned chart-topping hits like Message in a Bottle, Walking on the Moon and Every Little Thing She Does is Magic.
They earned a US number one single with Every Breath You Take, taken from their fifth album, Synchronicity, in 1983.
It was later recognised as the most-played radio song of all time and was heavily sampled on P Diddy and Faith Evans' 1997 song I'll Be Missing You.
However, The Police split up in 1984 amid personal and musical animosity.
Copeland later told The Guardian that the members "beat the crap out of each other" during the "very dark" recording sessions for Synchronicity.
They reformed in 2007 to open the Grammy Awards, before setting out on a lucrative world tour. Tickets for the British leg sold out in just 30 minutes, but the band dissolved again after the final date.
In 2022, Sting sold the rights to his songwriting catalogue to Universal Music Group, with the deal covering both his solo hits and songs he penned for The Police.
The deal was estimated to be worth $200m.
Source: BBC
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