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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Bot on Tuesday March 10 2020, @11:14PM

    by Bot (3902) on Tuesday March 10 2020, @11:14PM (#969333) Journal

    Hehe then enjoy this label, https://www.junodownload.com/products/mashed-up-funk-vol-7/1543818-02/ [junodownload.com]

    The trick for the song you posted is that both songs are harmonically quite plain. And possibly already in key (nothing librubberband can't fix)

    Good matches are kid creme's "Doing my own thang" loop with Seymour Bits (which should be a system analyst/programmer) "Bonparapara Attack!" or Tony Rallo's "Holdin' on" loop with "Street Player" (Chicago) remix loop... same
    I had myself two unknown tracks that matched perfectly, https://www.mixcloud.com/do7ob/all-vinyl-mix-march-2000-future-boogie-nu-disco-house/ [mixcloud.com] from 19:38 to 21:38 are simply overlayed. No editing, no re cue no pitch shift. All you needed to do was keeping the beat in sync.

    It's more rewarding when harmonic variations match, my fave vinyl era live mashup was with one song that had a distinct progression, that is Cerrone's Je suis music (cappella) with michael gray's The weekend (the original version, which was mostly instrumental). When I find the two records I post it somewhere.

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