BadApples87 Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 (edited) Looks like Page, Plant, Jones, and Bonham get to keep their Stairway to Heaven and not give royalties to the family of Randy California. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/led-zeppelin-prevails-appeal-over-163045649.html Listen for yourself and decide: Edited March 9, 2020 by BadApples87 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknroll41 Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Isn’t this old news already? Thought this case was settled years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadApples87 Posted March 9, 2020 Author Share Posted March 9, 2020 6 minutes ago, rocknroll41 said: Isn’t this old news already? Thought this case was settled years ago. No, it has gone through the courts for several years. The appeals court ruled in favor of Zep today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknroll41 Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 11 minutes ago, BadApples87 said: No, it has gone through the courts for several years. The appeals court ruled in favor of Zep today. Ah gotchya. Thanks for clarifying. So is it a done deal now? Or is the family of the Spirit guy gonna keep fighting, somehow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadApples87 Posted March 9, 2020 Author Share Posted March 9, 2020 1 hour ago, rocknroll41 said: Ah gotchya. Thanks for clarifying. So is it a done deal now? Or is the family of the Spirit guy gonna keep fighting, somehow? I suppose it could continue to be pursued all the way to the Supreme Court. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknroll41 Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 4 minutes ago, BadApples87 said: I suppose it could continue to be pursued all the way to the Supreme Court. Would be kinda funny if that ends up being the case! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lame ass security Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 14 minutes ago, rocknroll41 said: Would be kinda funny if that ends up being the case! I hear Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a huge Zep fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downzy Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 It's ridiculous the case ever made it that far. Litigation over copyright in the music industry is getting absurd. The precedent was set when Marvin Gay's family won their suit against Robin Thick and Pharrell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lame ass security Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 57 minutes ago, downzy said: It's ridiculous the case ever made it that far. Litigation over copyright in the music industry is getting absurd. The precedent was set when Marvin Gay's family won their suit against Robin Thick and Pharrell. The case that took the cake was when John Fogerty was accused of plagiarizing himself. He was sued by the record company that Old Man Down the Road was a rip off of Run Through the Jungle. He actually sat on the stand playing an acoustic guitar to demonstrate the difference.😄 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DK6 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Led Zeppelin have along history of blatant plagiarism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 16 hours ago, DK6 said: Led Zeppelin have along history of blatant plagiarism. To be fair though, and I can't stand Zep btw, the blues which they are accused of ripping off, that entire genre is sort of based on the rip off. It was a music that came to prominence in a time where music weren't that lucrative and no one gave a fuck about copyright and stuff. Take any great blues song and try to find the roots of it, it often ain't the cunt whoose most known for it. And it ain't just the songs, its the music, the riffs, the whole thing is heavily recycled, it was just the way of things. Take a tune though, take Walkin' Blues, thats a Son House song that Robert Johnson took and recorded and then Muddy Waters took and recorded, they weren't paying each other fuckin' songwriting royalities or laying out credits. And even Son House took the music of it from my Black Mama, which he did again with Death Letter Blues. Or Catfish Blues, which has got to be top fuckin' 5 of the most well known blues songs ever (not to mention the riff, which is just ubiquitous now), thats a fuckin' Robert Petway song that everybody did their version of and renamed and all sorts, its variously been called Rollin' Stone or Deep Blue Sea or Catfish Blues. So the genre that Zep were kinda working with (or semi working with) is kinda founded in that kinda shit. And even later, like early early early rock n roll, before Elvis made it REALLY moneyspinning, before Chuck Berry knew there was about to be some good money coming his way, he recorded Maybelline, that shit is Ida Red basically, a reworking of Ida Red. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Led Zeppelin should be sued for crimes against music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soon Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 21 hours ago, rocknroll41 said: Isn’t this old news already? Thought this case was settled years ago. It was bought to a close. And then an issue that the initial trial brought forward was tested as an appeal. That is, that back in the day the way music was copy-righted was a joke. Sometimes only a few bars of charted music was submitted on behalf of an entire song (!). So, I forget the hows-and-whys, but one or both songs had incomplete copyright fillings based on that archaic system. This last phase litigated that specific aspect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 They were always gonna win. No jury in the world would rule the other way. pfff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shotsfired cro Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 there is no court verdict hat can change the opinion of what I hear with my own ears. no court needed there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DK6 Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 7 hours ago, Len Cnut said: To be fair though, and I can't stand Zep btw, the blues which they are accused of ripping off, that entire genre is sort of based on the rip off. It was a music that came to prominence in a time where music weren't that lucrative and no one gave a fuck about copyright and stuff. Take any great blues song and try to find the roots of it, it often ain't the cunt whoose most known for it. And it ain't just the songs, its the music, the riffs, the whole thing is heavily recycled, it was just the way of things. Take a tune though, take Walkin' Blues, thats a Son House song that Robert Johnson took and recorded and then Muddy Waters took and recorded, they weren't paying each other fuckin' songwriting royalities or laying out credits. And even Son House took the music of it from my Black Mama, which he did again with Death Letter Blues. Or Catfish Blues, which has got to be top fuckin' 5 of the most well known blues songs ever (not to mention the riff, which is just ubiquitous now), thats a fuckin' Robert Petway song that everybody did their version of and renamed and all sorts, its variously been called Rollin' Stone or Deep Blue Sea or Catfish Blues. So the genre that Zep were kinda working with (or semi working with) is kinda founded in that kinda shit. And even later, like early early early rock n roll, before Elvis made it REALLY moneyspinning, before Chuck Berry knew there was about to be some good money coming his way, he recorded Maybelline, that shit is Ida Red basically, a reworking of Ida Red. I thought Marty McFly invented rock music in 1955!?! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lame ass security Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 46 minutes ago, DK6 said: I thought Marty McFly invented rock music in 1955!?! That scene where the dude calls his cousin Chuck to hear Marty play is classic. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
action Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 doesn't matter, still a shit song Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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