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: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday March 10 2020, @09:17AM
Makes you wonder...how much better would Disney be if Nazis still ran it? Probably more profitable, they would have left ESPN the fuck alone and came up with more original IP rather than X-Men 15: Professor X's Limp Dick.