Led Zeppelin cleared of plagiarism in Stairway case.

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cleared of plagiarism

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here's what I don't get.

It's 2016. There aren't any new notes out there. Music has been played for centuries....pretty much every song today using guitars is going to sound somehwat like another piece of music that came before it.

Unless it's a VERY OBVIOUS RIPOFF like bowie/vanilla ice, I don't see how/why it's worth going after people because a couple notes sounds like a couple notes from another song.

I initially read this and thought it was ridiculous to claim a chord progression. Then I listened to the song. If they played shows together, I don't believe that is coincidence. Listen to the song.

Not necessarily saying they should get rights on this arpeggio. But I think its pretty obvious Zeppelin ripped this off/used it as inspiration. Whether they deserve royalties is a different question.

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like bowie/vanilla ice

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Those were very different. Vanilla Ice had a high hat sound at the end of his sample.

It does sound quite similar.

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Unless it's a VERY OBVIOUS RIPOFF like bowie/vanilla ice

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at Bowie writing that funky Deacon bass line.




To be fair, all of their stories seemed to contradict each other, but Occam's Razor suggests Deacon came up with the riff and, at best, Bowie changed 1 note in the sequence, if at all, and the song itself was a collaboration of all 5 of them.

And all Mr. Van Winkle stole was the bass line.

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This chord progression is as old as time.

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It's a song as old as rhyme

That's a travesty because it's damn near identical