En Banc, Divided 9th Circuit: ‘Stairway To Heaven’ Does Not Infringe Copyright

Mealey's (April 2, 2020, 8:02 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a March 9 holding, a majority of the en banc Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rejected the inverse ratio rule for establishing substantial similarity between copyrighted works, overruling its own precedent in a win for Led Zeppelin (Michael Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin, et al., Nos. 16-56057, 16-56287, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 7585)....