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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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Appeals Court Rules Led Zeppelin Did Not Steal Stairway to Heaven Riff
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday March 10 2020, @09:22AM (4 children)
I have bad news for you. All blues is essentially the same song. Ditto for rock and roll.
The song is probably inspired by Taurus, but not enough to be plagiarism IMO too.
Plus, Taurus did not tune those fucking guitars and they deserve to be sued for that reason only.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday March 10 2020, @02:50PM (3 children)
Some modern music is made of:
* 3 parts modem noise
* 4 parts bass line
* 2 parts simplistic repetitive melody
* 1 part incomprehensible vocal
Does each of these "musical works" infringe upon each other?
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday March 10 2020, @10:20PM (2 children)
Most electronic music has devolved,since 1989 for the mainstream and since the trance and progressive scene of the mid 90s in general.
It has turned into the equivalent of clothing fashion, where the novelty is in the tech and old ideas get reissued using it.
But among the sheer amount of useless stuff you can cut out your interesting genre exploration, if you can do it in pop jazz rock indie hip hop, then you can surely do it in electronic. In fact you can do it even if you limit yourself to nu disco or old school house. As long as the subgenre isn't popular. If it's the popular one, expect it to be filled with metoos and 'experts' and profiteers.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 11 2020, @02:54PM (1 child)
At least they make up for it by increasing the mp3 bitrate up to 96 kbps to ensure highest audio fidelity.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday March 11 2020, @03:01PM
I prefer crisp and clear 7.5 Kbps sound [soylentnews.org].
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