The album was all about the music, and the band refused to shorten the eight-minute “Stairway to Heaven” to single length. Thus, it never made the Billboard singles charts .

“Stairway to Heaven” Trial: Jimmy Page Gets Quizzed on Music Vocabulary. The Led Zeppelin bandmember finishes his testimony and the court warns the plaintiff's attorney about wasting time.

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 ...

During the initial trial, jurors had to base their decision on the sheet music for both songs (and excerpts played live in the courtroom by a guitarist) because both tracks were copyrighted under ...

The “Stairway to Heaven” case illustrates that there are a lot of unsettled issues in copyright law when it comes to music, said Jacqueline Charlesworth, a former general counsel with the ...

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.

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.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced it would not hear the case, leaving in place an appeals court ruling that the band did not copy part of a 1968 song by Spirit.