Both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant wrote a declaration or a summary judgement motion defending “Stairway”, the song that made the band famous.

Jimmy says that descending opening chord riff is pretty common in other songs which is true. That opening chromatic chord riff heard in “Stairway” is everywhere in music. Jimmy also claims he never heard the “Taurus” song until this controversy started in 2014. Both Jimmy and Robert says Led Zeppelin & Spirit never shared the stage together even though it was claimed by the media that they did.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/plagiarism-lawsuit-jimmy-page-describes-869928

Once again, I find it real sad that Led Zeppelin is always a target of “plagiarism” when other legendary rock bands have iconic songs that are similar to other songs. For example Deep Purple “Black Night”… the riff for that song was ripped off from Ricky Nelson’s “Summertime” and Blackmore admitted to stealing the riff but you never see anyone giving him hell for it.

When you write a song and it sounds like someone else’s, it’s not always their fault. When a songwriter does decide to steal an idea from another song, it’s usually called “borrowing” and it’s pretty common in music but sometimes “plagiarism” happens by accident and coincidently.

I’m calling it… this Led Zeppelin “Taurus” thing was not plagiarism, it was by coincidence.

I think Led Zeppelin will prevail this time and will win the dismissal. Spirit has no case. Why sue Led Zeppelin now when they could have years ago? I think the people behind Spirit are desperate and jealous of Led Zeppelin’s legacy. Spirit an ego-driven band looking to get rich off of them.

Kev