Jury finds Led Zeppelin did not copy Spirit song

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant did not plagiarise the song Taurus by the American band Spirit when they wrote Stairway To Heaven, a jury in Los Angeles has found.

Jury finds Led Zeppelin did not copy Spirit song

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant did not plagiarise the song Taurus by the American band Spirit when they wrote Stairway To Heaven, a jury in Los Angeles has found.

The veteran rock stars appeared at a federal court in Los Angeles to deny claims that the guitar intro to the 1971 song was "lifted" from an instrumental track called Taurus.

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