Sex Pistols finds out the results of the High Court’s battle over the use of band songs

Members of Olmer Sex pistol Will find out the results of legal disputes caused by the band songs used in TV series.

Former drummer of punk band Paul Cook And guitarist Steve Jones The band’s former singer Johnny Rothen, whose real name is John Layden, is being sued for allowing their songs to be used in the TV series “Pistols” directed by Danny Boyle.

This six-episode series produced by Disney and will be broadcast next year is adapted from Mr. Jones’ 2016 memoir “Lonely Boy: The Story of a Sex Pistol”.

At the one-week hearing High court In London, Mr. Jones and Mr. Cook argued that, according to the terms of the Band Membership Agreement (BMA) made in 1998, the decision regarding the license request can be determined on the “majority rule basis.”

But Mr. Leiden had previously told the Sunday Times that he thought the show was “the most rude thing I had to endure”, and he argued that the license could not be granted without his consent.

His lawyer told the court that the agreement had never been used, and he believed it was a “nuclear button” for the claimants and their manager Anita Camerata to “impose their wishes” on him.

They said that he “deeply and enthusiastically disliked being a’prisoner’ of a hostile majority”. In the evidence he submitted to the court, Mr. Leiden said that the agreement had “a taste of slavery.”

lawyer Mr. Cook and Mr. Jones argued that there should be no dispute as to whether the agreement allows a “majority” to make licensing decisions, and said that Mr. Layden’s refusal to provide his consent violated the BMA.

They also stated that the court could not accept his evidence as true because it was a “frank lie” and he could not “really believe that the agreement never took effect.”

They told the court that the accusations of Mr. Cook and Mr. Jones were only against Mr. Lydon, the original band member Glen Matlock, who was replaced by Sid Vicious, and the Vicious estate representatives who died in February 1979, supported their position.