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RE: Lawyer who sued Led Zepplin for plagiarism...

Posted by JURB (A) on July 3, 2016 at 17:54:45

In Reply to: Lawyer who sued Led Zepplin for plagiarism... posted by Mr. Dick Hertz on July 1, 2016 at 12:56:07:

It is the judicial system and legislature that supports this shit. First of all when did Stairway To Heaven come out, sometime in the 1970s right ? Whatever happened to the statute of limitations ?

Now apparently there is no public domain. I don't know exactly how that happened but I am part of the public, where is my check ? And was what they supposedly plageurised not in public domain ? If not, still what of that statute of limitations.

That lawyer probably is a scumbag, and in fact that article at the link indicates he is not the best lawyer in the world. But what about the guy he was working for ? Who is going to sue a bunch of 80 year olds over a song they did like 40 years ago because some of the notes resemble something he, or probably one of his ancestors wrote, that did not become one of the top hits in the world ? What kind of rent seeking scumbag even hires a lawyer and tries to do this ?

Think about it. This lawyer, no matter what, did not instigate the suit on his own. He can't because he has no dog in the race. And then, if I was a lawyer and someone wanted to start a case like that I would first charge them a retainer, and then send them to a psychologist.

But he took the case, and I bet not on a contingency either, he would have to be stupid. He would have to know that such a case has very slim odds of being won. And who is this guy and where was he for forty years ? What, he never heard the song before ? Yeah right.

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