An appeals court has upheld a jury verdict that Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” has not plagiarized Spirit’s 1968 instrumental “Taurus.”
As reported, a jury in LA took five hours to unanimously reach the decision back in June 2016. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals then decided in 2018 that the trial judge had made a series of errors, ordering a new hearing.
And now, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has upheld the 2016 verdict, ruling that no plagiarizing took place.