According to various news sources, Led Zeppelin have won a copyright lawsuit that claimed they had plagiarized the music to “Stairway to Heaven.” After one day of deliberation, a Los Angeles jury determined that the plaintiff’s lawyer did not prove their case. The lawyer represented the estate of late guitarist Randy Wolfe who played with the group Spirit who claimed that Zeppelin had lifted the song’s intro from the 1968 Spirit instrumental “Taurus.”
“We are grateful for the jury’s conscientious service and pleased that it has ruled in our favor, putting to rest questions about the origins of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ and confirming what we have known for 45 years,” members Jimmy Page and Robert Plant said in a statement. ” We appreciate our fans’ support and look forward to putting this legal matter behind us.”
“At Warner Music Group, supporting our artists and protecting their creative freedom is paramount,” the band’s record label added in a statement. “We are pleased that the jury found in favor of Led Zeppelin, reaffirming the true origins of ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Led Zeppelin is one of the greatest bands in history, and Jimmy Page and Robert Plant are peerless songwriters who created many of rock’s most influential and enduring songs.”
