Judges may not be buying that ‘Stairway’ needs new trial

A group of US judges don’t seem inclined to order a new trial in a copyright fight over the Led Zeppelin song, “Stairway to Heaven.”
Members of an 11-judge panel at a Monday hearing before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco harshly challenged plaintiffs who argued that a new trial is justified in the lawsuit that alleged 1971’s megahit “Stairway” was stolen from 1968’s “Taurus,” by Spirit.
The estate of the late Randy Wolf