As we reported again in October, Fred Durst filed an enormous lawsuit in opposition to Common Music Group (UMG) claiming that, after Durst employed new representatives, these representatives discovered that UMG had been withholding as a lot as $200 million in royalties owed for Limp Bizkit report gross sales throughout the peak of their profession in addition to royalties from Durst’s label, Flawless Data, a subsidiary of UMG. When Durst’s new illustration contacted the label, UMG discovered over $1 million in royalties that they “didn’t alert” Durst about, which is a fairly obvious oversight. However the go well with alleges that that’s a small fraction of what UMG owes Durst and Limp Bizkit and he’s in search of the $200 million and the rights to his personal recordings. However now, UMG is motioning to dismiss the go well with, and their reasoning is…unusual, to say the least.
Based on Rolling Stone, UMG made their first response to Durst’s go well with final week claiming that all the lawsuit was “primarily based on a fallacy” and motioned for the go well with to be dismissed. Within the movement, the corporate stated that:
“Plaintiffs’ whole narrative that UMG tried to hide royalties is a fiction.”
UMG is claiming that all the dispute began when one of many firm’s administrators reached out to Limp Bizkit’s administration to arrange a vendor profile so the band may obtain their royalties and the enterprise supervisor at UMG had advised the director that almost all members of the band had offered off their royalty shares. Over a yr later, the enterprise supervisor despatched a follow-up electronic mail clarifying that he meant publishing royalties, not the recordings. UMG claims that this electronic mail communication will “eviscerate” the fraud claims, which is a daring phrase to make use of if you’re not making any sense.
I admit that I’m not a lawyer and perhaps that is all going over my head, however I don’t see how a confusion over whether or not the band nonetheless had their publishing royalties or the rights to their recording one way or the other proves that UMG didn’t quick Durst and his bandmates $200 million. It’s like if Marilyn Manson tried to inform us that Evan Rachel Wooden’s accusations in opposition to him are invalid as a result of she was born on a Monday. It doesn’t actually appear to have something to do with the allegations made in opposition to UMG. And, if the entire thing boiled all the way down to such a easy misunderstanding, it will appear odd that Durst’s legal professionals and administration would have missed one thing so apparent. One thing tells me that this is not going to be the final we hear about this lawsuit.
