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04-12-2016, 04:35 PM
Led Zeppelin facing copyright trial over 'Stairway to Heaven'
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A trial is needed to determine if Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" copies its opening **tes from a song performed by the rock band Spirit, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner ruled Friday that lawyers for the trustee of late Spirit guitarist Randy Wolfe had shown e**ugh evidence to support a case that "Stairway to Heaven" copies music from the Spirit song "Taurus."
SEE ALSO: Tom Petty says the Sam Smith controversy was a 'musical accident' (http://mashable.com/2015/01/29/tom-petty-sam-smith-response/)
"Taurus" was written by Wolfe in either 1966 or 1967, years before Led Zeppelin released "Stairway to Heaven" in 1971. Klausner wrote that while the songs have some differences, lawyers for Wolfe's trustee may be able to prove they are substantially similar. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/12/stairway-to-heaven-spirit-taurus/)
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A trial is needed to determine if Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" copies its opening **tes from a song performed by the rock band Spirit, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner ruled Friday that lawyers for the trustee of late Spirit guitarist Randy Wolfe had shown e**ugh evidence to support a case that "Stairway to Heaven" copies music from the Spirit song "Taurus."
SEE ALSO: Tom Petty says the Sam Smith controversy was a 'musical accident' (http://mashable.com/2015/01/29/tom-petty-sam-smith-response/)
"Taurus" was written by Wolfe in either 1966 or 1967, years before Led Zeppelin released "Stairway to Heaven" in 1971. Klausner wrote that while the songs have some differences, lawyers for Wolfe's trustee may be able to prove they are substantially similar. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/12/stairway-to-heaven-spirit-taurus/)
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