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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   
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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• Re:This is why current copyright sucks Re:This is why current copyright sucks (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:44AM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:44AM (#968920)

  Who modded that funny? It's fuckin sad, that's what it is.

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• Re:This is why current copyright sucks Re:This is why current copyright sucks (Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Tuesday March 10 2020, @09:14AM (1 child)

  by anubi (2828) on Tuesday March 10 2020, @09:14AM (#968976) Journal

  We don't have mod for sad.

  This a good example of what happens when a few have been entrusted to represent the public, then special interests game the laws they lobbied to have passed.

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  • Re:This is why current copyright sucks (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 10 2020, @02:00PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday March 10 2020, @02:00PM (#969039) Journal

    I blame Hillary....ALWAYS blame Hillary.

    She probably deserves it.

    :)

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