from the band Spirit. The court did not explain why it declined to take the case.
In March, a federal appeals court restored a jury verdict that found the band did not steal “Stairway to Heaven." The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco handed the major win to guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant and dealt a blow to the estate of Randy Wolfe of the band Spirit.
The ruling, and the Supreme Court's decision not to revive the case, is a precedent-setting win for musical acts accused of plagiarism and comes in a period when many songwriters, such asThe case first started in May 2014. Page testified he wrote the music for the song and Plant the lyrics, and that both were original.
It’s the right decision LZ have dinged before but Randy California never tookSTH to court.
Good. That song sucks and sounds nothing like Stairway.
To think that Stairway sounds like Taurus is ridiculous. What's next? Someone sues another band because they used a major chord?
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