3 hours Ago By Crystal Koe
Universal Music Group has claimed that Fred Durst’s $200 million lawsuit against it is “based on a fallacy” and is seeking to dismiss the case entirely. In a motion filed to dismiss the case, UMG contends that the frontman’s allegations of fraudulent royalty concealment are unfounded and that communications between the band’s management and UMG actually disprove his assertions. and “possibly hundreds of other artists”, alleging that the company employed fraudulent accounting practices to conceal these payments.
Durst’s legal team argues that despite the band’s success — over 45 million records sold — he has “not seen a dime” in royalties over the years. The suit also demands Durst and his bandmates receive full ownership of their music. However, UMG counters that they have made substantial payments to Limp Bizkit and asserts that any prior confusion regarding royalty entitlements has been resolved.
In its latest filing, UMG states that Durst’s “entire narrative that UMG tried to conceal royalties is a fiction” [via ]. The label also highlights email exchanges between the band’s manager and UMG that purportedly “eviscerates” Durst’s fraud allegations. In response to UMG’s clapback, a representative for Limp Bizkit says that “we believe UMG is using a typical, formulaic, well-trodden strategy of reaching for any escape route by desperately grasping at technicalities.
” “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. We will rely on facts, the law, and the courts. We have no desire to prove a solid case in press releases.
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