Editing Stig Anderson (section)

=== Legal disputes ===

The contract with the performers, as well as the international distribution, ran from a standard publishing and recording deal involving identical contracts, rather than from one written specifically with the performers of the band. This led to problems later, when three of the four ABBA members terminated their relationship with Anderson when it was revealed that Anderson had used this contract to take a percentage of profits at a value of 4.5 million [[euro]]s over the course of many years. A complaint against Anderson was submitted to the Stockholm District Court in June 1990 by Agnetha Fältskog's company ''Agnetha Fältskog Produktion AB'', Benny Andersson's company ''Mono Music AB'', as well as a Dutch company holding Björn Ulvaeus's rights. The dispute was eventually settled out of court in July 1991; the terms of the settlement remain undisclosed.{{citation needed|date = May 2020}}

In 1982, Anni-Frid Lyngstad had sold all the shares in the Polar Music company given to her by Anderson, as she moved abroad.<ref name = obitulary/> She remains the only member of the band never to seek legal recourse for past [[Royalties|royalty fees]] and was not involved with the legal proceedings against Anderson.{{citation needed|date = May 2020}}