Jimmy Web page has settled a lawsuit involving Led Zeppelin’s “Dazed and Confused,” which was filed again in Might by the songwriter Jake Holmes.
Holmes’ swimsuit was filed in opposition to each Web page and Sony Footage movie studio, alleging copyright infringement and breach of contract. The swimsuit claimed that two early dwell variations of the track have been included within the 2025 documentary Changing into Led Zeppelin with out correctly crediting or compensating Holmes.
It additionally claims that Web page has launched a number of dwell renditions of the track as recorded by the Yardbirds that credit score Web page because the lone songwriter. (They seem on the archival releases Yardbirds ’68, Reside on the BBC Revisited and The Yardbirds: The Final Reside on the BBC, amongst others.)
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Per the swimsuit, Holmes claimed that Web page and Sony Footage “willfully infringed the Holmes composition by falsely claiming that the Holmes composition is the Web page composition by purporting to license use within the movie of the Holmes composition as if it was the Web page composition, and by accumulating license charges to be used of the Holmes composition within the movie.”
Though precise particulars haven’t been made public, in keeping with reporting by Reuters, the events have instructed a California court docket that the dispute has been resolved and a remaining written settlement is underway.
Representatives for Warner Music and Holmes’ legal professional Daniel Johnson each declined to touch upon the matter.
Holmes’ First Lawsuit
This isn’t the primary time Holmes has sued Web page. Holmes filed his first swimsuit in 2010. It was settled out of court docket, however compelled Web page to replace the Led Zeppelin crediting to “Jimmy Web page, impressed by Jake Holmes.” Holmes opened for the Yardbirds again in 1967, the place he purports Web page first heard Holmes’ unique “Dazed and Confused.”
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