Led Zeppelin has won the long copyright battle over its 1971 song “Stairway to Heaven,” as the Supreme Court declined to take up the case.

Led Zeppelin made “Stairway to Heaven” a concert staple long before Led Zeppelin IV hit shelves. Page’s incredible moment at Zep’s first U.S. concert of 1971 proved to him the band had ...

UPDATE (10/5): The Supreme Court will not hear the copyright dispute over Led Zeppelin‘s “Stairway to Heaven,” upholding a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that “Stairway” did not ...

The song remains the same. The rock band Led Zeppelin won a major copyright battle on Monday over claims parts of their popular song “Stairway to Heaven” were stolen.

So all that was argued over in court was sheet music. The 2016 trial landed in favor of Led Zeppelin. There was an appeal, which today also landed in favor of Zeppelin.

One of Skidmore’s key arguments was that Led Zeppelin had access to “Taurus” given, among other things, the two bands traveled with each other in the late 1960s.

Members of Led Zeppelin, in 1973, from left, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. The “Stairway” case had been closely watched in the industry.

In 2016, jurors did not hear the portion of “Taurus” which sounds similar to the beginning of “Stairway to Heaven” in court. Instead, jurors listened to guitar and piano renditions by ...