[ourplace] Lawyers for Randy "California" Wolfe Appeal Ruling in Led Zeppelin Decision
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- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 23:43:52 -0700
BlankLawyers for Randy "California" Wolfe Appeal Ruling in Led Zeppelin Decision
LOS ANGELES Lawyers have appealed a jury decision that cleared Led Zeppelin of
accusations it lifted a riff from an obscure 1960s instrumental for the
intro to its classic rock anthem "Stairway to Heaven."
An attorney for the trust of the late Randy Wolfe filed a notice of appeal last
week in Los Angeles
federal court. The trust for Wolfe, better known as Randy California, failed to
convince a jury last month that the British band swiped a passage to "Stairway"
from a short work he recorded with his band Spirit in 1968. The filing does not
provide legal arguments for why the case should be reconsidered. Trust
attorneys complained after the verdict that the judge did not allow jurors to
hear the recording of Spirit's "Taurus. Instead, jurors had to rely on
renditions
from the sheet music because that is the copyright-protected work, though it
differs from the band's recording. Attorneys for Led Zeppelin and the other
defendants, including their record label, are seeking close to $800,000 in
legal and other fees from the trust because it failed to win. A hearing on that
matter is scheduled Aug. 8
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