LONDON: The legal battle between members of the 1970s punk band that broke the sex gun for the use of group songs in the drama series about their lives began in the London High Court on Thursday.
Former Guitarist Band Steve Jones and Draummer Paul Cook demanded singer John Lydon, which is known to the world as a sex gun cicer, a front-haired man of Johnny Rotten, for the use of a group rear catalog on the show.
The six-section series, “pistol”, which was being developed by Disney and directed by the British Director who won Oscar Danny Boyle, has revived a long dispute between living band members, which was formed in 1975 and was officially dissolved three years later , Even though they played together, with the exception of a series of sporadic reunions, the band had a big impact on popular music over the next decades, recreating stones in their own punk images with songs such as “Anarchy in England)” and ” God saved the Queen “.
Lydon said he was not ready to approve the license needed to use music in films, based on Memoir Jones “Lonely Boy: Tales from the Sex Pistol”, unless ordered by the court and felt he had been slandered by the other sex gun.
In the April Sunday article, Lydon said he had been placed “in a corner like a mouse” and against several corporations who just wanted to take over “.
In court, Edmund Cullen, represent Jones and cooking, which is called the relationship between band members” Bitter and Fractious ” and explain efforts have been made to resolve the same disagreement through consensus in the past.
He argues in the provisions of the band’s agreement made in 1998, decisions regarding license requests can be determined on the “basic rules of the majority”, even though Lydon said the license could not be given without his consent .
Cullen also said in written evidence that Lydon was the only shelter of the use of songs, with the original band members of Glen Matlock, who left the band in 1977, and the Estate of Sid Vicious, who died in 1979, supported licensing.
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Cunningham QC, represents Lydon, said in a written argument, his client p Erncaya Memoar, this film is based on “describing it in huddy and unpleasant light”.