Skidmore v Led Zeppelin - Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals 2026

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In special interrogatories, the jury found that Skidmore owned the copyright to Taurus and that Led Zeppelin had access to Taurus, but that the two songs were not substantially similar under the extrinsic test. Following the verdict, the district court entered a judgment and an amended judgment.
Led Zeppelin, 6 the en banc Ninth Circuit established that the scope of copyright in unpublished musical works registered under the 1909 Act is limited to their deposit copies and clarified that protection for original selection and arrangement requires more than a mere combination of musical building blocks.
Philadelphia-area attorney Francis Malofiy. Photograph by Bryan Sheffield. The fact that Philadelphia barrister Francis Alexander Malofiy, Esquire, is suing Led Zeppelin over the authorship of Stairway to Heaven is, by any objective measure, only the fourth most interesting thing about him.
In 1979, the Ninth Circuit became the first federal judicial circuit to set up a Bankruptcy Appellate Panel as authorized by the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. The cultural and political jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit is just as varied as the land within its geographical borders.
The legendary rock band won a long-running copyright dispute over the classic 1971 song.

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Led Zeppelin Wins Copyright Dispute Over Stairway To Heaven A court ruled in favor of Led Zeppelin on Monday, affirming that the band did not infringe the copyright of Spirits Taurus in creating the song Stairway to Heaven.
The iconic rock band were accused of stealing the songs opening riff from a song called Taurus by US psych-rockers Spirit, recorded three years before the release of the album Led Zeppelin IV, which contained the rock behemoth.
Led Zeppelins Bring It on Home (1969) and Whole Lotta Love (1969). In 1972, Chess Records publishing arm, Arc Music, sued Led Zeppelin, claiming their 1969 recording of Bring It on Home infringed on their copyright in a song of the same title recorded in 1966 by Sonny Boy Williamson and written by Willie Dixon.

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