[Captainpaintball]

They stole from blues artists in their first couple of albums, and there were lawsuits which involved re-doing songwriting credits, and I guess, royalties. Dylan was a stealer, too.

[nickcarraway]

“good artists borrow, great artists steal.” - Picasso. But T.S. Eliot said more or less the same.

But we are talking about two different things.

One is a songwriter writes their own, different song, and they use too much from an existing song.

The other is the person doesn't write a new song, they just take credit for a song that someone else wrote.

[nickcarraway]

Led Zeppelin opened for Spirit, and stole several of their songs, including the note for note introduction of Stairway to Heaven