'Stairway to Heaven' Copyright Trial Could End Quickly

UPI ^ | June 15, 2016 | Yvette C. Hammett

[Huskrrrr]

“...ironically, Parker sued Lewis..”

That’s nerve!

[dmz]

We’re clearly off on a tangent, but I disagree with your notion that doing the traditional arranged by is little different from claiming it as an original.

By noting it as traditional, you are saying I did not write this. It is old. So old we don’t know who wrote it.

An area of some interest for me as a musician playing some traditional, arranged by us, songs. Lily of the West, by way of example.

[Fiji Hill]

I like this version:

The Garden of Eden--Fra)nkie Vaughan (1957)

[Trillian]

[Trillian]

The Simpsons - In the Garden of Eden

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Led Zep stole lots of stuff - but in this case I don’t see it. They stole a riff, not a song. Is the riff separately copyrighted?

[gigster]

That was creatively humorous, as most Simpsons stuff was. However, I never watched one single episode. It wasn’t my style of humor.

[gigster]

Spirit money ran out. So, I guess now they're just "Spirit in the Sky."

[Rebelbase]

“My brother bought a block of twenty five seats on the main floor, and needless to say, it was quite a party.”

Probably cost a total of $125 back then which would have been two weeks wages working after school at the grocery store.

[gigster]

Probably cost a total of$125 back then which would have been two weeks wages working after school at the grocery store. Actually, my bro never worked in a grocery store. We've been in the automotive business for over forty years. And back then tickets to Cobo Hall were probably about 7-10 dollars apiece. I remember my first concert at Cobo back in about 1972.The band was Grand Funk, and the tickets were $3.50,$4.50, and $5.50. I saw a lot of great shows and bands at Cobo when Detroit was truly the Rock and Roll capital of the world.

[Rebelbase]

I was the one working in the grocery back then.

[Boogieman]

“I disagree with your notion that doing the traditional arranged by is little different from claiming it as an original.”

As far as royalties are concerned, I said. You don’t pay royalties to anyone else on an original composition you record, and you don’t pay royalties to anyone else on a traditional song you arranged. So there’s no difference in that respect.