Supreme Court Asked To Rethink ‘Stairway To Heaven’ Suit Certiorari Denial

Mealey's (November 4, 2020, 1:30 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A recent Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in favor of the band Led Zeppelin in a dispute over the alleged copying of another band song in the iconic “Stairway To Heaven” has resulted in a “fundamental attack on the principles of Copyright law,” a petitioner tells the U.S. Supreme Court in an Oct. 30 petition for rehearing in which he asks the high court to reconsider its denial of certiorari on questions related to protection under the 1909 Copyright Act (Michael Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin, et al., No. 20-142, U.S. Sup.)....