You be the judge.
Led Zeppelin has won an appeal in a copyright infringement case involving its rock anthem"Stairway to Heaven" and Spirit's"Taurus." But can you tell the difference between the two songs?
According to court documents from the Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit, plaintiff Michael Skidmore, representing the Randy Craig Wolfe Trust, was appealing a decision made by a district court on whether Led Zeppelin had copied a riff from"Taurus" a song written by Randy Craig—also known as Randy California—as a member of the music group Spirit. Craig died in 1997.
California was given his nickname by Jimi Hendrix, when they were both members of Jimmy James and the Blue Flames in 1966. Hendrix gave him the name to distinguish him from Randy Palmer, whom Hendrix named"Randy Texas". The decision made by the Ninth Circuit reinstates a decision from four years ago. In 2016, the band won the case in a San Francisco district court, with an 11-person jury finding no evidence that"Stairway to Heaven" breached the copyright of"Taraus". However, the ruling was overturned in 2018, according to court documents, when a three-judge panel in San Francisco found that certain instructions to the court jury had been"erroneous and prejudicial.
The single wasn't released to the public, with 150 promotional singles sent to radio stations. These are now considered rare and a collector's item."Taurus" the song by Spirit, was released in 1968 and appeared on the band's self-titled album,
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