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Linkin Park Seek to Dismiss Former Bassist’s Unpaid Royalties Lawsuit

Five months after a former Linkin Park bassist sued the band over unpaid royalties, the group’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit.

In the motion filed Tuesday, Linkin Park’s legal team cited a number of “defects” with Kyle Christner’s lawsuit, most notably that the statute of limitations had “long since passed,” Billboard reports. Linkin Park members Mike Shinoda — who praised Christner’s work on the reissue track “ Could Have Been ” during a 2020 livestream — Rob Bourdon, Brad Delson, and Joseph Hahn are listed as defendants alongside Machine Shop and Warner Records. However, if even just counting the Christner-featured tracks unearthed on the reissue, the 20th anniversary edition of Hybrid Theory was released in October 2020, while Christner’s lawsuit was filed in November 2023, missing that three-year window by a month, as the motion to dismiss points out.

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