Ex Guns N' Roses members sue Axl

Get In The Ring... Original Guns N' Roses members Slash (guitar) and Duff McKagan (bass), now with Velvet Revolver, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles on Wednesday against Axl Rose. Both accuse the Guns N' Roses singer of changing the publisher of the group's copyrighted songs without their consent and pocketing the royalties.

The lawsuit follows Axl's publishing deal with Sanctuary earlier this year, in which he sold the publishing rights to the GNR back catalog for a reported 10 million dollars. "Suffering an apparent attack of arrogance and ego ... Rose recently decided that he is no longer willing to acknowledge the contributions of his former partners and bandmates in having created some of rock's greatest hits," the lawsuit reads.

The suit seeks damages for fraud, copyright infringement and breach of fiduciary duty.
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