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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 DannyB on Tuesday March 10 2020, @05:07PM (5 children)
I'd like to share that advice with Trump supporters. Or even Trump himself.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:14AM (4 children)
Man, that needs to be a bumper sticker. No, it needs to be on every license plate.
Trump was still the wiser choice though if you're not into having a shadow government that gives not a fuck what the people who voted them in wanted. And versus either Biden or Bernie a literal clown from an actual circus would even be wiser.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:06PM (3 children)
In some sense we got a clown.
The sad thing is that these are the candidates that 'float' to the top?
But especially Trump. If Trumpers were unhappy with Hillary (which I understand) could they, collectively as a party, not come up with a better candidate than Trump? I didn't like GWB but I at least had some respect for him and thought he was basically honorable if a bit dim witted. But Trump? That vulgar obscenity? How is it those people picked that, and continue to support him? It boggles the mind. And further brings more division. The pendulum always swings back and forth, but some people don't seem to think that far ahead. Or about rules and lines not to cross, because they might not like the same rules and dirty tricks when the shoe is on the other foot. But no. Nobody seems to think that far ahead.
I hate to see what is coming no matter who gets elected.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 13 2020, @11:04AM (2 children)
Yeah, that's why I was specific as to it being a proper clown.
Nah, he was the one closest to what they wanted and by primaries time it's too late to organize a campaign because all of the choices suck. In case you're not quite clear on what they wanted, they wanted a middle finger to the political establishment, business as usual, and politicians on the right who apologize for not being politically correct enough when the left defines political correctness.
Now there were lots of other issues-related reasons but those are the ones that were pretty well universal to all his voters and why him instead of anyone else who ran in the primaries.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 13 2020, @05:55PM (1 child)
I was, but am no longer happy with the Democratic candidates. I guess the worst really do float to the top. Brace yourself, no matter what happens.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 13 2020, @10:27PM
What for? I mean, it's just gonna be four more years of the same and Trump ain't fucked anything up any worse than any other President in the first four.
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