
A jury has found that the intro to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” was not stolen from another band.
The Los Angeles jurors decided Robert Plant and Jimmy Page were not guilty of copyright infringement.
A lawsuit accused the pair of stealing the licks from a song by the band Spirit. That song, "Taurus," is an instrumental ballad that was released four years prior to "Stairway to Heaven." Ref. CNN.