Limp Bizkit gotta have faith – and they’ve gotta win against UMG

Fred Durst, the band’s vocalist, filed a case against Universal Music Group in October 2024, and Limp Bizkit‘s team has won the most recent round. In order to catch up, Durst launched a huge $200 million lawsuit against Universal Music Group last October, alleging that UMG had committed accounting fraud against him, his bandmates, and a number of other related people and companies. UMG was charged in that lawsuit with copyright infringement, deceptive concealment, breach of contract, and other offenses. Durst and Limp Bizkit primarily claimed that they were not paid recording royalties for the approximately 45 million copies of their recorded music that were sold or streamed during their time signed to the Flip Records and Interscope/Geffen/A&M label umbrella.

That case was brought before a judge once more in January of this year, and this time the court decided in favor of Universal Music Group. Durst’s bid to have the various recording contracts linked to his band and Flawless Records artists revoked was rejected by Judge Percy Anderson in an early verdict. On March 17, however, a federal judge decided that a state court was not the appropriate venue for some of Durst’s allegations, and so allowed the copyright infringement claims to continue. In order to allow them to advance in a federal court, the court has now rejected UMG’s move to dismiss, which contested the adequacy of the copyright claims. Furthermore, it was decided that a number of the other claims made against UMG were appropriate for state court proceedings. As a result, those claims will need to be refiled, which Durst’s legal team has stated they fully intend to do.