Members of a Jury that will be deciding on a copyright claim against Led Zeppelin will be barred from hearing details about band member’s pasts. “U.S. District Judge Robert Gary Klausner, who is presiding over a trial which will decide whether the rock group’s hit Stairway To Heaven was plagiarized from Taurus, a 1967 instrumental by the band Spirit, ruled certain evidence about the rock group’s past could not be heard in court.” The Jury members will not be able to hear testimony that relates to allegations of past drug use by the band members as well as accusations of plagiarism. “The ongoing lawsuit against the rock legends was brought by Michael Skidmore, a trustee for the late Randy Wolfe, also known as Randy California, who was Spirit’s guitarist and the composer of Taurus.”
See Judge In Ledd Zeppelin Copyright Case Rules Out Evidence, WENN, April 27, 2016.
