British rock band Led Zeppelin on Monday effectively won a long-running legal battle over claims it stole the opening guitar riff from its signature 1971 song “Stairway to Heaven.” The band, one of ...
“Stairway to Heaven” is an original — no new trial needed. That is the upshot of an appellate court’s decision, announced Monday, which upheld a jury’s verdict that Led Zeppelin’s 1971 classic did not ...
The Supreme Court will not hear the copyright dispute over Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," handing the English rock band a victory by default. In March, a federal appeals court restored a jury ...
The copyright battle over Led Zeppelin’s megahit “Stairway to Heaven” hasn’t given up the ghost yet. Lawyers for the plaintiff have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider the matter after the ...
For the past five years, the copyright bar and the music industry have carefully followed the many twists and turns of Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin, ___ F.3d ___, 2020 WL 1128808 (9th Cir. March 9, 2020) ...
One of Led Zeppelin’s acclaimed concert films is coming to a personal screen near you. After a nearly 30-year hiatus, the surviving founding members of Led Zeppelin reunited to play London’s O2 arena ...
British rock band Led Zeppelin on Monday effectively won a long-running legal battle over claims it stole the opening guitar riff from its signature 1971 song “Stairway to Heaven.” The band, one of ...
Led Zeppelin was the victor Monday in the final step of its “Stairway to Heaven” copyright battle. The U.S. Supreme Court said in a short caption on its website that it “denied” a request by the ...