The copyright case against Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" has officially been put to rest after the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, upholding the decision made back in March. As Bloomberg Law reports, it now legally stands that Robert Plant and Jimmy Page did not infringe on "Taurus," a song by guitarist Randy Wolfe of Spirit, a band that they had toured with previously.
The case first began in 2014. Led Zeppelin originally won the trial, but a new trial was opened in 2018. In August 2020, the Randy Wolfe estate filed a petition to ask the Supreme Court to overturn the March ruling.
As Bloomberg points out, the Led Zeppelin trial was closely watched by the music industry as a precedent for how copyright cases might be tried in the future.
In other Led Zeppelin news, Led Zeppelin III was released 50 years ago today and the band has announced that they'll honor it with a reissue of the Japanese version of "Immigrant Song" with "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" on the B-side. It's "limited" to 19,700 copies and will be available to pre-order here starting on Thursday (10/8) at 10AM.
