Jury says Led Zeppelin did not rip off “Stairway to Heaven” | Ars TechnicaPlant testified that he could not remember encountering the band Spirit. "I don't have a recollection of almost anyone I've hung out with," Plant said. He added that he couldn't remember playing with the band at a 1970 venue in England, either. "I can't actually recall Spirit or anyone playing there with the passing of time," he said.

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Kraftwerk loses hip-hop music-sampling copyright case | Ars Technica: "“This is an important decision by the German Constitutional Court and a sensible one,” German Pirate Party MEP, Julia Reda, told Ars."

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The Big Bang Theory sued for using “soft kitty” lyrics in hit TV show | Ars Technica The lawsuit, filed last Wednesday in a New York federal court, claims that the lyrics beginning with "Soft kitty, warm kitty" were created by Edith Newlin some eight decades ago and published in 1937 in a book called Songs for the Nursery School. The suit says the book's copyright registration was renewed in 1964, which "served also to register and renew" Newlin's copyright.

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