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Appeals Court Rules Led Zeppelin Did Not Steal Stairway to Heaven Riff

posted by martyb on Tuesday March 10 2020, @03:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the Name-That-Tune-In-5-Notes dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Snotnose on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:30AM (9 children)

    by Snotnose (1623) on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:30AM (#968908)

    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.

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:40AM (#968915)

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:44AM (#968919)

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:51AM (#968924)

    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

      by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday March 10 2020, @01:59PM (#969038) Journal

      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

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday March 10 2020, @09:58AM (#968987) Homepage
    Yeah, but at least you can blame John for that. All the warning signs were there while he was alive, he was just too hampered by mind-altering drugs and woo-woo to see them. Or hear them - have you heard her sing? If he'd have put a boot up her arse, things would have been different.
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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 10 2020, @01:57PM (3 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday March 10 2020, @01:57PM (#969037) Journal

    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]

    Lyrics: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAOOOUUH OW WO UH UH UHHAHAHAHA UHHAHAHAHA UHHAHAHAHA UHHAHAHAHA UHHAOWHAOOH OOH HU UH OW!! OOH HU UH OW!! OOH HU UH OW!! WAHA HOOHA HOOHA HOOHA HOOHA HOOHAHA HOOHA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA HAHA HAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA HO HO HO (indistinguishable) WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWO HUHOOHUHOOHOOHU HO HO.... WOHO OOHOOHOHA OOHOOHOHA OOHOOHOOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA AHA AHA AHAHAHAHAHAHOOHOOHAHA UHAHA UHAHA UHAHA UHAHA UHAHAHOOHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA OOHHAHA OOHHAOH OOHHAHA OOHHAOH OOHHAHA OOHHAOH OOHHAHA OOHHAOH OOHHA AH HA HOO OH HO OOH HO OOOHHH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA AHHA HAHA ha OHHAHAHA OHHAUAHOOHHAUAHOOHHAUAHOOHHAUAHAHAHHA AHHA AHAHA AHAHA aaaaaahhhhhhh..... (followed by a confided smirk)

    Talentless is kind...

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    • (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Tuesday March 10 2020, @09:57PM (2 children)

      by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Tuesday March 10 2020, @09:57PM (#969312)

      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)

        by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday March 10 2020, @11:21PM (#969335) Journal

        Tha's it: keep talking dirty to me...! :)

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        • (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Thursday March 12 2020, @10:55AM

          by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Thursday March 12 2020, @10:55AM (#970178)

          Oh my, you're such a tease! ;)

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