Limp Bizkits $200 millionlawsuitagainst Universal Music will head to trial after a federal judge denied the labels motion to dismiss the case.
Fred Durst and companysuedUMG the worlds largest record company in October 2024 in one of the most notable lawsuits of the year in the music industry.
Along with alleging that UMG withheld as much as $200 million in royalties, in an equally notable fraud allegation, the band claimed that the company had designed and implemented royalty software and systems that were deliberately designed to conceal artists royalties and keep those profits for itself.
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The following month, UMGfiled its motion to dismiss the lawsuit, saying it was based on a fallacy and claiming that Plaintiffs entire narrative that UMG tried to conceal royalties is a fiction.
When someone is caught red-handed, their first response is often to hire very expensive outside law firms who first, as a matter of course, try anything to dismiss the suit when they are in trouble with the facts, a representative for the band said in November 2024.
In this case, we believe UMG is using a typical, formulaic, well-trodden strategy of reaching for any escape route by desperately grasping at technicalities.
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The Court denies the Motion to Dismiss challenging the sufficiency of the copyright claims, Judge Perry Anderson wrote.
Defendant shall file its Answer to the copyright claims asserted in the 1st [amended complaint] by no later than April 7, 2025.
UMG is also currently embroiled in a lawsuit with its current artist Drake, who accuses the label of inflating streams of Kendrick Lamars Not Like Us.
