{"id":128057,"date":"2015-08-04T00:30:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T00:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2015\/08\/04\/led-zeppelin-stairway-to-heaven-lawsuit-hearing\/"},"modified":"2015-08-04T00:30:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T00:30:06","slug":"led-zeppelin-stairway-to-heaven-lawsuit-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2015\/08\/04\/led-zeppelin-stairway-to-heaven-lawsuit-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Led Zeppelin Stairway To Heaven Lawsuit Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A hearing has been scheduled in a Los Angeles federal court in the copyright-infringement lawsuit involving Led Zeppelin\u2019s \u201cStairway To Heaven.\u201d<\/div>\n
West Side Today reports U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner has set an August 17 scheduling conference in the case. The suit – brought by the estate of Spirit guitarist Randy California and members of the band – claims the acoustic introduction to \u201cStairway\u201d was lifted from their 1968 instrumental, \u201cTaurus.\u201d<\/div>\n
In May, Led Zeppelin filed a response to the case by denying the allegations or claiming insufficient knowledge to answer them. \u201cAnswering paragraph 11 of the First Amended Complaint, including the First Amended Complaint\u2019s footnote 1, Defendants admit that Led Zeppelin has been called one of the greatest bands in history and its members were and are exceptionally talented,\u201d the group\u2019s answer reads, \u201cbut otherwise deny each and every allegation contained in paragraph 11 of the First Amended Complaint.\u201d<\/div>\n
The group admit to playing shows with Spirit on their first US tour – where the Los Angeles band claims Jimmy Page was exposed to \u201cTaurus\u201d – and to using part of the Spirit song \u201cFresh Garbage\u201d in a medley they performed during some concerts in 1968 and 1969.<\/div>\n
Warner Music Group successfully argued in May that the case should be moved from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, where possible witnesses and business records are located.<\/div>\n
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Western Division, is the same court where a jury ruled in March that Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke should pay $7.4 million for infringing on Marvin Gaye\u2019s 1977 track \u201cGot To Give It Up\u201d with their 2013 hit, \u201cBlurred Lines.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A hearing has been scheduled in a Los Angeles federal court in the copyright-infringement lawsuit involving Led Zeppelin\u2019s \u201cStairway To Heaven.\u201d West Side Today reports U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner has set an August 17 scheduling conference in the case. The suit – brought by the estate of Spirit guitarist Randy California and members […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}