Music Law, So Much. We Don't Do These Enough

The Ninth Circuit on bonk ruled two years ago that Led Zeppelin did not copy Randy California's band Taurus playing their song Spirit when the folks at Led Zeppelin wrote Stairway to Heaven. At issue was something called the inverse ratio rule, which said this, the stronger the evidence you have that one party had access to the work that has alleged to have been copyrighted, the less compelling the similarities between those two works need to be in order to give rise to an inference of copying. The Supreme Court would take it up and they declined. Andrew is going to talk about specifically what the statute says, which is just kind of bare bones.