Samiul Bashar Samin
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have been pulled into court in relation to Led Zeppelin’s copyright infringement trial, set to start from June 14th. The trial involves the rock legends being sued over plagiarizing the 1968 Randy California song “Taurus” to make their most acclaimed number “Stairway to Heaven.”
The court has now ruled so that it is mandatory for the duo to attend the trial although their attorney claims they would have attended it anyways. He suggests the defendants “want to dictate the court’s schedule, completely disregarding the difficulties in presenting multiple fact and expert witnesses in a narrow band of time of approximately six hours.
The lack of common courtesy from defense counsel is, frankly, astonishing.”
“We have previously made it clear that Messrs. Page and Plant will attend the trial, but with them coming from England we cannot guarantee the day they will arrive,” claims the Led Zeppelin attorney. The attorney for Randy California has suggested that it is important that the members of the band attend in order for them to be called to the witness box so that he can use their testimony as evidence while proving that Led Zeppelin had actually committed copyright infringement.