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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

More than 40 years after the release of Stairway to Heaven, English rock band Led Zeppelin are facing allegations that its iconic guitar riff was stolen from Taurus, a song released in 1968 by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 are too ...