Sting has paid £595,000 to his former The Police bandmates since facing legal action over unpaid royalties, the High Court has heard. Drummer Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andrew Summers contend they are owed more than $2m (£1.49m) in “arranger’s fees” by bassist Sting and his company Magnetic Publishing. Their barrister claimed that arranger’s fees – an arrangement where a songwriter would give 15% of publishing income to the other two bandmates – had not been paid from money generated through streaming, according to court documents filed in December 2024. Their case hinges on the interpretation of various agreements made between the band’s formation in the late 1970s and 2016. Image: Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland (from left) as The Police in 1982. Pic: AP But Robert Howe KC, for Sting, said in written submissions for a preliminary hearing at the High Court on Wednesday that the arrangement does not apply to streaming and should only apply to physical products such as vinyl and cassettes. He also said Sting, whose real name is Gordon Sumner, …