Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ in Copyright Trial … Copied From the Song “Taurus” by the Band Spirit

Stairway to Heaven the Court Room …

Starting on Tuesday, a Los Angeles court will try to decide whether the members of the legendary rock band Led Zeppelin ripped off the riff from Stairway to Heaven. The copyright lawsuit was brought by the trustee of guitarist Randy Wolfe from the band Spirit. Attorneys for the trustee contend that 1971′s “Stairway to Heaven” stole the riff from the Spirit song “Taurus,” which Wolfe wrote in either 1966 or 1967. Wolfe died in 1997.

FOX News:

Generations of aspiring guitarists have tried to copy the riff from Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.”

Starting on Tuesday, a Los Angeles court will try to decide whether the members of Led Zeppelin themselves ripped off the riff.

The band’s guitarist Jimmy Page and singer Robert Plant are named as defendants in the lawsuit brought by the trustee of guitarist Randy Wolfe from the band Spirit. Attorneys for the trustee contend that 1971′s “Stairway to Heaven” copies music from the Spirit song “Taurus,” which Wolfe wrote in either 1966 or 1967. Wolfe died in 1997, drowning while saving his son in Hawaii.

Page, Plant and their bandmate John Paul Jones are all expected to testify at the trial, though Jones has been dismissed as a defendant in the case.

Led Zeppelin and Spirit performed at some concerts and festivals around the same time, but not on the same stage.

U.S District Judge R. Gary Klausner ruled in April that evidence presented in hearings made a credible case that Led Zeppelin may have heard “Taurus” performed before their song was created.

We report, you make the call. Below are the videos of both songs ‘Taurus’ and ‘Stairway to Heaven.’ Hmm, the very beginning is rather similar, especially at the 44 second mark of Taurus. This is going to be a tough call to call and prove.

Spirit – Taurus

Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven

UPDATE I: The copyright infringement lawsuit against Led Zeppelin of its classic “Stairway to Heaven” has now gone to the jury.

The copyright infringement lawsuit against Led Zeppelin over the songwriting credits and profits of its classic “Stairway to Heaven” has now gone to the jury, which began deliberations Wednesday morning.

In the sixth day of the case – “Michael Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin et al” (the “et al” referring to corporate defendants Atlantic Records, Rhino Records and Warner/Chappell Music) – both sides made final arguments in Court 850 of Los Angeles’ Edward R. Roybal Federal Building and United States Courthouse. The presiding judge, Gary Klausner, allotted counsel representing the plaintiffs (the trust of Randy “California” Wolfe, whose composition “Taurus” for the band Spirit they allege has been plagiarized) and Zeppelin’s defense team 45 minutes each to convince the eight-person jury of their arguments.

And If You Ever Had any Confidence in the FBI, You Will No Longer After Watching the VIDEO Below … They are Confused about Terrorist Motives, UNREAL!!!

OMG, THE FBI HAS BECOME NOTHING MORE THAN A PC BUREAUCRACY … IF BELOW IS ANY INDICATION ON HOW TODAY’S FBI CONDUCTS THEMSELVES, WE ARE ALL SCREWED!!!

Omar Mateen, the radicalized Islamist terrorist, who killed 49 innocent individuals in Orlando, Florida at the night club Pulse was interviewed multiple times by the FBI. Some how the FBI found nothing wrong. It begs two questions. How did the FBI find nothing wrong with this individual when others around him knew he was not right? Also, how does a man investigated by the FBI for possible links to terrorism buy an assault-style weapon in America? HOW DID THAT NOT RAISE A RED FLAG!!! So instead, we have back ground checks to harass law abiding citizens, but some how some one who was investigated by the FBI does not have an “***” next to his name?

In the video below we painfully watch FBI Director James Comey struggle with a terrorist motives. Are you kidding me!!!  Oh this provides me with so much confidence as well that he will properly investigate Hillary Clinton as well. What is preventing the FBI from properly probing and profiling these terrorists? Could it be political correctness and a president who cant even say the words, radical Islamic terrorists?

WAPO:

Even as FBI investigators peered deeper Tuesday into the life of the Orlando nightclub gunman, the agency faced its own internal reckoning over whether warnings signs were missed during a 10-month probe of the shooter three years ago.

The expected review of the FBI files into Omar Mateen — including why the investigation was effectively closed — adds another layer of questions into the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation will “look at our own work, to see if there is something we should have done differently,” the agency’s director, James Comey, said Monday after details emerged of the past FBI review of Mateen, who left 49 people dead in a gay club Sunday before being killed when police stormed the site.

“So far, I think the honest answer is: I don’t think so,” Comey added. “We will continue to look forward in this investigation and backward.”

The FBI investigated Mateen beginning in 2013, putting him under surveillance, recording his calls and using confidential informants to gauge whether he had been radicalized after the suspect talked at work about his connections with al-Qaeda and dying as a martyr

Daily Commentary – Tuesday, June 14, 2016 – What Will the USA Do After The Horrific Terror Attack in Orlando?

• After the Paris attacks, France retaliated with heavy bombings in targeted ISIS strongholds. What will the USA do?

25 Year Old Larossi Abballa, ‘Claiming Allegiance to IS group’ Stabs French Police Officer and Partner to Death & Takes Son Hostage in Paris Suberb (Update: Terrorist Killed, Boy Safe)

HMM, HEY OBAMA, FRENCH PRESIDENT FRANCOIS HOLLANDE NOT AFRAID TO CALL ACTS OF TERROR FOR WHAT THEY ARE …

25 Year Old Larossi Abballa, who claimed allegiance to ISIS, stabbed to death a police captain and his companion on Monday had been sentenced to prison in 2013 for membership in a group that was planning terrorist activities. Abballa also took a 3 year old boy hostage. The terrorist was shot dead by members of an elite French police unit after negotiations failed. The child was rescued and safe. President Francois Hollande called the murder of two police officials by a man claiming allegiance to so-called Islamic State (IS) is “unquestionably a terrorist act”.

A man who claimed allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group stabbed a senior French police officer to death on Monday night before he was killed in a dramatic police operation, officials have said.

The attacker repeatedly stabbed the officer before taking the officer’s partner and their son hostage in their home in Magnanville, near Paris.

He was shot dead by members of an elite police unit after negotiations failed. The partner was found dead but the child was rescued.

French President François Hollande said Tuesday the murders were “unquestionably a terrorist act”.

Sources close to the investigation named the suspect as 25-year-old Larossi Abballa, adding that he had been sentenced in 2013 for links to a jihadist network that sent recruits to Pakistan.

A news agency linked to the IS group said the attack had been carried out by an “Islamic State fighter”, days after posting a similar claim following the massacre at a gay club in Orlando, Florida.

Daily Commentary – Monday, June 13, 2016 – Whoever Donald Picks For his VP is Going to be HUGE!

• His choice will need to be well liked and knowledgeable about campaigns and politics in general