Led Zeppelin have defeated the copyright challenge against ‘Stairway To Heaven’ for the third time, after the US Supreme Court declined to hear the case.The decision of the US Supreme Court upholds a March ruling by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
This is the last option for legal appeal in its current form in the US Courts system.Michael Skidmore, a trustee for the estate of Spirit guitarist Randy California, first filed a lawsuit against the British band in 2014.He claimed that their 1971 hit ‘Stairway To Heaven’ had violated the copyright of Spirit’s 1968 track ‘Taurus’.However, a judge ruled in favour of Led Zeppelin in July 2016.
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