Intellectual Property Magazine
Stairway to Heaven case potentially revived
Trustee of late Spirit guitarist files second petition for rehearing; claims if allowed to stand, Ninth Circuit’s verdict could ‘divest hundreds of thousands of songs of copyright protection’
Ben Wodecki
The copyright infringement dispute over the opening riff of Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven appears to have been reignited, after a second petition was filed for a Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) review.