Led Zeppelin‘s Jimmy Page and a songwriter have reached a settlement to resolve the television program lawsuit over the disputed credit to the band’s iconic tune “Dazed and Confused,” in keeping with new courtroom filings.
The settlement, filed in courtroom Friday (Aug. 1), will shortly finish a copyright case filed this spring by Jake Holmes, a songwriter who has claimed for years that he truly wrote “Dazed and Confused” and that Web page merely carried out it with out credit score or fee.
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Phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed in public filings, aside from to say that it “resolves your entire case” and will likely be formalized within the weeks forward. Discover of the settlement was filed by attorneys for Holmes and was not signed by legal professionals for Web page or different defendants.
Reps for Web page didn’t return a request for remark. An legal professional for Holmes declined to remark.
Holmes wrote and recorded “Dazed and Confused” in 1967; Web page later reworked it right into a tune for his band The Yardbirds, then into the famed 1969 Zeppelin observe. Many years later, in 2010, Holmes filed a copyright lawsuit towards Web page. That case shortly settled, and the credit for Zeppelin’s observe now say it was “written Jimmy Web page, impressed by Jake Holmes.”
However in Could, Holmes sued Web page once more, accusing the legendary rocker of flouting that earlier settlement and violating his rights. The case centered on newly launched recordings of Yardbirds performances and the latest documentary Changing into Led Zeppelin.
“By falsely claiming that the Holmes composition is the Web page composition, … Web page [and others] have willfully infringed the Holmes composition,” Holmes’ legal professionals write. “Defendants…have ignored plaintiff’s stop and desist demand and proceed to infringe.”
The case towards Web page was nonetheless within the earliest phases, and he and the varied different defendants (which additionally included music writer Warner Chappell and movie studio Sony Photos) had not but formally responded to the accusations with courtroom filings of their very own.