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IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! SUPREME COURT REFUSES LED ZEP CASE
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 1:28 pm
by ajaxlepinski
I can't believe they applied for a hearing with the Supreme Court!
If the SCOTUS took this case, they'd have to hear every copyright infringement case....they ain't going there!
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/led ... 18849.htmlMy take on this matter is...
If the original members of Spirit did not sue when they were alive, no one has the right to... regardless of how much or how little the two songs sound alike.
Re: IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! SUPREME COURT REFUSES LED ZEP CASE
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 1:56 pm
by itchyfingers
Man, finally I can get some sleep at night!
Re: IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! SUPREME COURT REFUSES LED ZEP CASE
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 2:02 pm
by TurboPablo
I just listened to "Taurus" for the first time and knew within four notes that it was different from "Stairway". How in the blue fuck did this make it so far up into the courts?
Re: IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! SUPREME COURT REFUSES LED ZEP CASE
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 2:31 pm
by Diddlybo
I definitely think Page lifted the intro, seeing how he did shows with Spirit so he had to have heard it. Plus, ol' Jimbo wasn't shy about "borrowing" back in those days.
But other than the decending intro riff, the two songs don't sound alike at all, IMO.
Re: IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! SUPREME COURT REFUSES LED ZEP CASE
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 3:11 pm
by VTM
Longtime Spirit fan and major influence on me both musically and spiritually.
Coincidentally just mentioning it now.
Re: IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! SUPREME COURT REFUSES LED ZEP CASE
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 4:55 pm
by Ostinato Rubato
This is what happens when people mistake an arpeggio as a melody. Big difference between the intro to Stairway to Heaven and vocal melody of Live la Vie
Swing and a miss boys!
Re: IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! SUPREME COURT REFUSES LED ZEP CASE
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 4:57 pm
by TurboPablo
It's well known that Jemmy Paeg liked to lift riffs. But this is, while similar(Jemmy stealed part of it), different enough.
Re: IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! SUPREME COURT REFUSES LED ZEP CASE
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 5:00 pm
by Ostinato Rubato
If they gave this case to Spirit then the JS Bach estate would be having a fucking field day litigating.
Chord progressions and arpeggios are everyone's to enjoy.
Re: IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! SUPREME COURT REFUSES LED ZEP CASE
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 5:03 pm
by TurboPablo
Ostinato Rubato wrote:If they gave this case to Spirit then the JS Bach estate would be having a fucking field day litigating.
Chord progressions and arpeggios are everyone's to enjoy.
I know. I have always wondered how Bach's descendant feel about these kinds of cases
Re: IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! SUPREME COURT REFUSES LED ZEP CASE
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 5:22 pm
by fretless
now back to the teen shaggins
Re: IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! SUPREME COURT REFUSES LED ZEP CASE
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 8:48 pm
by GuitarBilly
Spirit should pay Led Zeppelin's a fee since it's the only reason they're still talked about in 2020.
Re: IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! SUPREME COURT REFUSES LED ZEP CASE
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 9:50 pm
by ajaxlepinski
^^^ Exactly!!! ^^^
Re: IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! SUPREME COURT REFUSES LED ZEP CASE
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 12:10 pm
by spawnofthesith
It's not even a member of Spirit, just this Michael skidmark guy trying to cash in on a dead guys song
Re: IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! SUPREME COURT REFUSES LED ZEP CASE
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 1:17 pm
by ajaxlepinski
spawnofthesith wrote:It's not even a member of Spirit, just this Michael skidmark guy trying to cash in on a dead guys song
All Spirit members had long since joined the spirit world, when this whole lawsuit nonsense started!
I hope Michael Skidmark spent a lot of his own money on this "project".
Re: IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! SUPREME COURT REFUSES LED ZEP CASE
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:38 pm
by crankyrayhanky
EVERY Page riff is a ripoff. Cool though