A federal appeals court on Monday restored a jury verdict that found Led Zeppelin did not steal “Stairway to Heaven'
LOS ANGELES — A federal appeals court on Monday restored a jury verdict that found Led Zeppelin did not steal “Stairway to Heaven."
The composition of the two songs, not their recordings, were at issue in the case, but the plaintiffs had sought to play the two recordings for jurors as part of their argument that Page had access to the song “Taurus” as required to prove a copyright violation. He said it was “ridiculous" that jurors could not simply hear the two songs in dispute, and that if they could the case would be an easy call for the Wolfe estate.Representatives for Led Zeppelin declined comment.
Story continues"Once the jury made that finding, the remaining questions on the jury verdict form related to substantial similarity of the works.” The 9th Circuit also broke with its own precedent on the question of jury instructions and rejected the so-called “inverse ratio” rule, which held that the more the plaintiffs could prove that an alleged song thief had access to the original material, the lower the standard became for finding the two works similar.
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