Sunday, September 30, 2018

That ‘Stairway To Heaven’ Riff Is Back In The Courts Again

Though a federal court jury ruled in 2016 that “Stairway to Heaven” wasn’t plagiarized from the Spirit’s instrumental song “Taurus,” the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that that jury was “wrongly instructed.” So Spirit’s lawsuit is back on.



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