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Led Zeppelin ‘Stairway To Heaven’ copyright case may go back to court

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Led Zeppelin‘s copyright dispute over ‘Stairway To Heaven’ may go back to court yet again.Michael Skidmore, a trustee for the estate of Spirit guitarist Randy California, first filed a lawsuit against the British band in 2014.He claimed that their 1971 hit ‘Stairway To Heaven’ had violated the copyright of Spirit’s 1968 track ‘Taurus’.However, a judge ruled in favour of Led Zeppelin in July 2016.

A new trial was later ordered by the US appeals court in September 2018.Then earlier this year, the 9th US Circuit Court Of Appeals in San Francisco once again ruled in favour of Zeppelin, saying Robert Plant and Jimmy Page did not infringe the copyright of ‘Taurus’.Now, the US Supreme Court has been asked to review the earlier decisions in a.

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