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: 2) by arslan on Wednesday March 11 2020, @12:12AM
Umm no they don't there's a descending chord bit that's similar, nothing else is. Unless they've copyrighted descending chords, which is impossible as there's prior art for _centuries_ from all sorts of music genres from all sorts of cultures over the world.