Sting ’s former Police bandmates Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland are suing over missing royalties tied to “Every Breath You Take,” the Los Angeles Times and other sources report.

In the suit, filed in London High Court, Summers and Copeland claim they were never properly credited as songwriters on “Every Breath You Take,” and have never received royalties for their writing contributions. While “Every Breath You Take” was a major hit in and of itself — it was the Police ’s first and only Number One in the U.S. — it enjoyed an equally massive second life as the key sample on Puff Daddy and Faith Evans’ Notorious B.I.G. tribute “I’ll Be Missing You.”

Both Sting (under his real name Gordon Matthew Sumner) and his publishing company, Magnetic Publishing, are listed as defendant

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