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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:You have to admit Re:You have to admit (Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday March 10 2020, @03:54PM (1 child)

  by HiThere (866) on Tuesday March 10 2020, @03:54PM (#969113) Journal

  That doesn't excuse the way copyright derivation is interpreted. Or the ridiculous lengths. Or much of anything else about current copyright law...like the expense of either defending or prosecuting.

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• Re:You have to admit (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday March 10 2020, @03:56PM

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday March 10 2020, @03:56PM (#969117) Homepage Journal

  Copyright ain't patents. Different critters entirely. The rest, that's another matter entirely and one we probably wouldn't disagree on.

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