In the event the jury gets it wrong and overlooks the requirement that the plaintiff must prove that its use of the descending chromatic scale in its song “Taurus” was sufficiently original to ...

The claimed portion includes five descending notes of a chromatic musical scale. The beginning of Stairway to Heaven also incorporates a descending chromatic minor chord progression in A minor.

A trustee for the estate of Randy Wolfe, the writer of “Taurus,” claimed in the suit that Led Zep copied the song’s descending chromatic scale for the opening of rock anthem “Stairway to ...

Anderson said the “descending chromatic scale” played by Page in the first moments of “Stairway” is merely a musical device, so common and unoriginal that “it belongs to everyone.” ...

Even if he did, they argued, the similarity between “Stairway to Heaven” and “Taurus” was limited to a “descending chromatic scale of pitches” that have been known for centuries and ...

During the trial, music experts said in court that the opening rift of “Taurus,” described as a “descending chromatic scale,” is routinely used in mainstream music—so common it doesn’t ...

Led Zeppelin's attorneys brought in music expert Lawrence Ferrara, who testified that the "descending chromatic minor line progression" in question at the trial was used 300 years ago, as well as ...

Music experts testified that the descending chromatic scale in “Taurus,” which the band was accused of having copied, is exceedingly common in popular music and isn’t subject to copyright ...

Led Zeppelin's attorneys brought in music expert Lawrence Ferrara, who testified that the "descending chromatic minor line progression" in question at the trial was used 300 years ago, as well as ...