It’s the plagiarism case that will not go away (it’s been with us since 2014). The estate of Randy California, the guy who headed up the American band Spirit, has been pushing the
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Sorry for the legal talk, but I feel the need to address things because I get so many emails about people annoyed about how two songs sound similar. “This is a rip-off!” they
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Yes, this stupid, futile lawsuit has been ongoing this entire time. To recap, the estate of Randy California (he of the band Spirit) have carried on his fight to prove that Jimmy Page
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Five years on, the estate of Randy California of the band Spirit is still trying to prove that Jimmy Page blatantly ripped off elements of a 1968 instrument called “Taurus” for use in
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If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that the estate of Randy California, the late leader of a band called Spirit, has been going after Led Zeppelin for ripping off a portion of
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This is one of the few days of the year that Canadians get a stat while America doesn’t. Feels good, right? Here’s music news for August 5, 2019. A journalist has blamed the
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The sound you heard at midnight was a bunch of radio stations flipping to an all-Christmas format for the rest of the year. Be prepared to hear “All I Want for Christmas is
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Weed’s been legal in Canada for 24 hours. Society didn’t collapse. I think we’ll be okay. Here’s music news for October 18, 2018. Now that Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson have broken up,
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Here we go again. A couple of years ago, a California judge threw out a claim that Led Zeppelin (specifically Jimmy Page) plagiarized a song called “Taurus” from one-time tourmates Spirit to write
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Here we go again. Last summer, a judge dismissed the case that alleged plagiarism and copyright infringement on the part of Led Zeppelin. In case you were orbiting Saturn at the time, it was alleged
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The solstice has passed and the days are now getting longer! Only six months til summer And now, music news. Here’s how the New York Times Magazine “Lives They Lived” feature remembers David
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