A former keyboard player for the Backstreet Boys filed a copyright suit Friday, claiming he co-wrote two songs on the group’s “Black and Blue” album. Tommy Smith names group members Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, A.J. McLean, Howard Dorough, and Kevin Richardson and Zomba Records in the suit, according to Billboard.

Smith says he co-wrote “The Answer to Our Life” and “Time” with Carter, Littrell, and another party. His lawyer, Gerald Weiner, says the damages from not being deemed a co-author for the songs “should be well over $1 million.”

The boys are currently working on a new album. “We’re in the early stages,” Dorough told Billboard. “I’ve been out [in Los Angeles] this last month doing a lot of writing, as have Kevin and A.J. We’ll get together and probably work with Jermaine Dupri, we’re going to do some writing with Glen Ballard as well and just experiment.”






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