English folksinger Jake Holmes is suing Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page over the band's song "Dazed and Confused." Holmes says that he received a copyright to the song in 1967, two years before Zep recorded their version. Though the two versions are sort of similar, the one glaring omission in Holmes' story is how he kept finding things to do other than take the band to court. If Jimmy Page had stolen my song at the close of the Sixties, he would have paid out before the Watergate scandal was finished.

http://www.prefixmag.com/news/led-zeppelin-being-sued-by-folksinging-codger-over/41853/

No comment!!!

Step in line, take a number, people.

There aren't too many blues artists and such that Led Zeppelin hadn't *lifted*
songs from.

Anybody ever hear Jake Holmes version??? Jimmy Page pretty much redid this song word for word.

Is there no statute of limitations on this sort of thing? I mean it seems pretty silly to sue someone 41 years after the fact! :crazy: :rolleyes:

Step in line, take a number, people.

There aren't too many blues artists and such that Led Zeppelin hadn't *lifted*
songs from.
Yeah, not to mention "Boogie With Stu" was an homage (or ripoff, depending on your point of view) of Ritchie Valens' "Ooh! My Head". In fact, "Mrs. Valens" was listed as a co-writer so Ritchie's mom, who had fallen on hard times, could get a share of the royalties (or before the band could be sued for copyright infringement).