A court battle over who owns the rights to the rights of one of super-band Abba’s musical hits has been decided. Abba members Bjorn Ulvaeus, and Benny Andersson have come out as owner of the rights.
The writer who wrote a first draft to a show called Kristina from Duvemala, Carl-Johan Seth had argued he owned the rights, but the Abba stars returned an argument that the first draft was unusable.
Staffan Michelson, Mr Seth’s lawyer said he was very disappointed and his client would appeal against the decision.
Carl-Johan Seth had originally said in court that he should be considered the main writer, however, Bjorn and Benny that they had not used Seth’s script but had used a script written by director Lars Rudolfsson and dramatist Jan Mark.
The two Abba stars now hope to take Kristian from Duvemala to Broadway.
