Life as a Zeppelin fan would be much easier whether they had come up with every idea themselves. But they always turned their borrowings into something greater than the sourceAnd so the latest Led Zeppelin plagiarism case goes to court. This time it’s Spirit,whose claim that Stairway to Heaven’s acoustic opening takes directly from their song Taurus is to be heard before a jury next month. It’s not the first time m’learned friends have become involved in the allocation of songwriting credits or royalties for Zeppelin songs – Babe Im Gonna Leave You, Dazed and Confused, or Whole Lotta worship,The Lemon Song and Bring It on domestic have all had their credits changed on latter-day Zeppelin releases and reissues. The most egregious of those cases was Dazed and Confused, a song by Jake Holmes that Jimmy Page heard when Holmes opened for the Yardbirds in 1967. It became a staple of the Yardbirds’ set, or then when Page formed Zeppelin,he changed the lyrics, took sole songwriting credit, or stuck it on the band’s debut album.
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Source: theguardian.com