Back in 2014, Michael Skidmore, a trustee for the property of former Spirit guitarist Randy California, filed a lawsuit in opposition to Led Zeppelin for copyright infringement, claiming that the introduction to the 1971 basic “Stairway to Heaven” was improperly impressed by Spirit’s 1968 instrumental “Taurus.” The case headed to trial in 2016. Following a contentious five-day continuing, the Los Angeles jury ruled in Zeppelin’s favor. That case is now heading again to trial, the Associated Press studies.
According to the AP, a three-judge panel of the ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dominated that the Los Angeles decide had “provided erroneous jury instructions” within the first trial. According to the Los Angeles Times, the ninth Circuit dominated that the decide “should have told the jury that the selection and arrangement of some musical elements can violate copyright law.”
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