US federal appeals court restores a jury verdict that found Led Zeppelin did not steal “Stairway to Heaven.”
Led Zeppelin persuaded a US appeals court to reinstate a jury verdict that it did not steal the opening guitar riff for"Stairway to Heaven".
In a 9-2 decision, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said lead singer Robert Plant's and guitarist Jimmy Page's 1971 rock anthem did not infringe "Taurus," written by guitarist Randy Wolfe of the band Spirit. "Obviously, the court got it wrong," the trustee's lawyer, Francis Malofiy, said in an interview. "This is a big loss for creators, those who copyright laws are meant to protect." Malofiy said he may appeal to the US Supreme Court.
In a June 2016 verdict, jurors found that while Plant and Page had access to "Taurus," its riff was not intrinsically similar to "Stairway."
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