Led Zeppelin have triumphed in a long-running copyright dispute after a US appeals court ruled they did not steal the opening riff in Stairway To Heaven.
The British rock legends were accused in 2014 of ripping off a song called Taurus by the US band Spirit.
Taurus was written in 1968, three years before Stairway To Heaven.
Now, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has upheld a 2016 trial verdict that found Led Zeppelin did not copy it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51805905
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Grishnakh on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:17AM (10 children)
There's a reason they waited this long: the person/people in Spirit who owned the original copyright died, and the unproductive leeches who inherited their estate decided to try to capitalize on it.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Snotnose on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:30AM (9 children)
See also Ono, Yoko. I remember reading a month or two back where she wouldn't give Sean the letters he'd written his dad, he had to buy them from her at auction.
Talk about a talentless fuck skating along on someone else's work, that would be her.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:40AM
Well to be fair.... he wasn't exactly paying with his own money was he.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:44AM
When he was told did he exclaim "Yoko oh no!"
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:51AM (1 child)
Give Ireland back to the Irish
Give Lapland back to the Laps
Give China back to the Chinese
And give Yoko back to the Japs
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 10 2020, @01:59PM
Yoko Ono: the Japanese Celine Dion... their home countries DON'T WANT THEM BACK!
Justin Beeber, neither.
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 10 2020, @09:58AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 10 2020, @01:57PM (3 children)
Where's the Amen mod?
She put out a song (heard it a long time ago) where she says (not sings) "What am i going to do about my.........legs?" I thought, "Wha?"
FOUND IT!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1COlh7233Yw [youtube.com]
And NOW for something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ9weP5i68 [youtube.com]
Talentless is kind...
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(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Tuesday March 10 2020, @09:57PM (2 children)
You deserve 30 lashes with a cat o' nine tails just for linking to that audio terrorism.....
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 10 2020, @11:21PM (1 child)
Tha's it: keep talking dirty to me...! :)
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(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Thursday March 12 2020, @10:55AM
Oh my, you're such a tease! ;)
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