Led Zeppelin Sued over ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Chord Progression

That's not how the law works though. Even if unintentional, you can't profit using something that someone else created/discovered. I bring up the Coldplay/Satriani case again. I doubt Coldplay even knew who Satriani was let alone intentionally stole his music. Yet they paid him to settle rather than face what was surely a losing case. I think this case is even more explicit and the actual connections and relationships of the musicians are incriminating.

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Yeah. I know that isn't how the law works. But this is one if those cases where I feel the law doesn't line up with reality.